Monthly Archives: May 2012

Posted on May 6, 2012 by stuartelden

This was added in comments to a previous post, but worth greater visibility.

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Political Theology and Early Modernity

Posted on May 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting looking collection edited by Graham Hammill and Julia Reinhard Lupton, with a postface by Etienne Balibar. Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and … Continue reading →

Posted in Baruch Spinoza, Books, Carl Schmitt, Etienne Balibar, Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, Walter Benjamin, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

Pirate Radical Philosophy?

Posted on May 6, 2012 by stuartelden

The latest issue of Radical Philosophy has an interesting piece entitled ‘Pirate Radical Philosophy’, which is free to download. It raises questions about open access, piracy, copyright and the digital humanities. It is followed by a brief statement from the … Continue reading →

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Political Geology: Stratigraphies of Power

Posted on May 5, 2012 by stuartelden

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 Macau last year. Thanks to Kathryn Yusoff … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Elizabeth Grosz, Felix Guattari, Fossils, Gilles Deleuze, The Space of the World | 4 Comments

Mark Purcell on Lefebvre, State, Space, World

Posted on May 5, 2012 by stuartelden

There is a very generous review of Lefebvre’s State, Space, World collection by Mark Purcell in the new issue of Social and Cultural Geography (requires subscription). [Update: Mark has posted the whole thing here] Let me say this plainly: this is … Continue reading →

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Deborah Cowen website

Posted on May 4, 2012 by stuartelden

My friend and co-editor of Society and Space, Deborah Cowen, has a nicely designed website about her work. My work is concerned with the politics of space and questions of citizenship. I am captivated by the ways groups claim space, … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Ed: This blog post from the French newspaper Le Monde has a very large number of comments attached and provides a very interesting account of the background to the recent decision to declare the Foucault…

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Outside Territory in Nottingham

Posted on May 4, 2012 by stuartelden

After the Paris event we were up early the next morning to get the Eurostar to London, and then a train to Nottingham – made a little trickier by the ASLEF strike action (but a strike that doesn’t disrupt things isn’t a … Continue reading →

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Outside Territory in Paris

Posted on May 4, 2012 by stuartelden

The conference of Ruti Sela and Mayaan Amir’s ‘Exterritory‘ project in Paris was a really interesting event. Sponsored by the Kadist Foundation and the Evens Foundation, it was held in a remarkable space – Le Comptoir Général. As the rain came down, it was … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies issue 13

Posted on May 4, 2012 by stuartelden

A Special Issue on Foucault and Accounting guest edited by Andrea Mennicken & Peter Miller Issue 13 also includes original articles on parrhesia, classical scholarship and Foucault’s ‘German moment’ as well as a review essay on Foucault’s 1970-1971 course on … Continue reading →

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