Political Geology: Stratigraphies of Power
I’ll be speaking at a conference on Political Geology: Stratigraphies of Power on 21 June at Lancaster University - I’ll be giving an abbreviated version of the ‘Fossils’ paper I gave in Canberra and...
View ArticleEarth book series – Waterfall and Volcano
Interesting looking series just launched with two titles out. One of the planned chapters of my The Space of the World book is on ‘earth’ and I’m interested in the relation between theories of the...
View ArticleThe Space of the World
A la limite, le problème qui se pose c’est celui des rapports de la pensée à la culture : comment se fait-il que la pensée ait un lieu dans l’espace du monde, qu’elle y ait comme une origine, et...
View ArticleNext things to do
The manuscript for The Birth of Territory, the image files and all the permissions paperwork went to University of Chicago Press yesterday. Of course, there are still copy-editing queries, proofs,...
View ArticleBack from Edinburgh
Good few days in Edinburgh, with a chance to catch up with old friends, though the rotten weather didn’t show the city at its finest. The ‘Bodies in Movement’ seminar on Coriolanus went well, with some...
View Article2013 publications
There will be three journal articles out in 2013, along with The Birth of Territory. Two of the articles are related to that book, but take arguments in different directions and link to future projects...
View ArticleTaking Stock – The Space of the World project
I mentioned in the last post that I was unsure where I was going with my The Space of the World project. Part of the reason for this is that I’ve now been rejected on three grant applications to help...
View ArticleForthcoming talks
Several talks for the 2012/13 academic year have been arranged. Two lectures have been in the diary for a while – the Critical International and Political Studies annual lecture at the University of...
View ArticleNew Geographies 4: Scales of the Earth reviewed
Issue 4 of Harvard GSD journal New Geographies was on the theme of ‘Scales of the Earth’. You can read a review of it here. New Geographies, 4: Scales of the Earth, edited by El Hadi Jazairy, centers...
View ArticleOn writing books
Yesterday I reblogged Graham Harman’s post about his forthcoming Latour book Prince of Nodes (a sequel to Prince of Networks). In that post he reflects on how this means he is contracted to write three...
View ArticleTerricide – RGS-IBG audio available
My talk at the recent RGS-IBG conference is available here. This was part of a session on Geo-social formations: Capitalism and the Earth (details here and here), organised by Arun Saldanha, Kathryn...
View Article“Interview with Stuart Elden” at Groundwork
Another interview with me, conducted by Jordan Skinner, has been published at the Groundwork site – a blog run by past and present students of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at...
View Article‘Exercises in the History of Ideas': An interview with Stuart Elden by Dale...
Back in March I was interviewed by two graduate students at the University of Melbourne, Dale Leorke and Suneel Jethani, about my writing, background and approach to work. It covers my work on...
View ArticleVideo of my Groningen Lecture on Modes of Reasoning –‘Globe, Governmentality,...
This is the video recording of my Groningen Lecture on Modes of Reasoning – ‘Globe, Governmentality, Geometrics’. More details about the lectures and the videos of the previous lecture from Mick Dillon...
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