Monthly Archives: February 2013

Mark Purcell, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy

Posted on February 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Mark Purcell’s new book, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy, is now available to pre-order. It has very positive endorsements from Peter Marcuse and Susan Fainstein. The book uses Lefebvre, among others, to think about politics, the urban and democracy. Mark … Continue reading →

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Nur Masalha – The Palestine Nakba reviewed

Posted on February 23, 2013 by stuartelden

Nur Masalha’s The Palestine Nakba is reviewed at Warscapes. Here’s the first paragraph The ongoing dispossession of the Palestinian people has rarely been given the moral weight more readily accorded to European historical traumas. The colonized status of Palestinians and … Continue reading →

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Foucault, ‘Stultifera Navis’ – a hybrid translation

Posted on February 23, 2013 by stuartelden

Michael Bibby has produced a hybrid translation of the ‘Stultifera Navis’ chapter of Foucault’s History of Madness. It draws on both the existing English translations, and comes with various texts as an introduction and a selection of images.

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Hegel, Our Untimely Contemporary – conference with Slavoj Žižek

Posted on February 23, 2013 by stuartelden

May 10-12, 2013, The Birkbeck Institute, London – full details here (via Verso blog) Hegel is the ultimate bête noire of the last two centuries of philosophy:proponents of Lebensphilosophie, existentialists from Kierkegaard onwards, materialists, historicists, analytic philosophers and empiricists, Marxists, … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 23, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Object-Oriented Philosophy:
Mehdi Belhaj Kacem is not yet as well known in the Anglophone world as some of the other important younger French thinkers, in part due to the absence of English translations of his work (a…

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Posted on February 23, 2013 by stuartelden

Another interesting interview at Figure/Ground Communication, especially good on universities today.

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Postdoctoral posts at Durham University

Posted on February 22, 2013 by stuartelden

Durham University seeks to employ two full-time Research Associates. The Research Associates will contribute to the International Boundaries Research Unit’s consultancy and training activities in boundary delimitation, demarcation and dispute resolution as well as pursuing their own research, and contributing … Continue reading →

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