Monthly Archives: September 2013

Theory of the drone 10: Killing at a distance

Posted on September 17, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
This is the tenth in a series of extended posts on Grégoire Chamayou‘s Théorie du drone and covers the fifth and final chapter in Part II, Ethos and psyche. Chamayou begins with a lecture given by German artist and film-maker Harun Farocki in…

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“The thingness of books” (From Chrostowska’s Novel Permission)

Posted on September 17, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
The thingness of books, especially of many books kept in a small space, stacked high without rhyme or reason, can become impressive. I worry about being oppressed by the books I own––quite different from being oppressed…

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Richard Polt’s The Emergency of Being – now in paperback

Posted on September 17, 2013 by stuartelden

Enowing has the good news that Richard Polt’s The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger’s “Contributions to Philosophy” is coming out in paperback, with a new preface. The new preface is also available online. hen this book came out, I reviewed it for Continental Philosophy Review (freely … Continue reading →

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John Agnew review of Stephen Legg (ed.) Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt

Posted on September 17, 2013 by stuartelden

John Agnew reviews Stephen Legg (ed.) Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos in Progress in Human Geography – here (requires subscription).

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radio interview on The Birth of Territory

Posted on September 16, 2013 by stuartelden

I was briefly interviewed earlier this afternoon on the Moncrieff show on Irish Newstalk radio. You can listen to the recording here – begins at about 22 minutes and goes up to 30 minutes. The interview was about The Birth … Continue reading →

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Five forthcoming papers

Posted on September 16, 2013 by stuartelden

Five forthcoming papers in Society and Space now available online (require subscription).

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Books received

Posted on September 16, 2013 by stuartelden

An early book by Jane Bennett, Giddens’s The Politics of Climate Change, Kelly Oliver’s Technologies of Life and Death, and the new issues of Area, RIPE, British Academy Review and Law & Literature. The last has my piece on King … Continue reading →

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Seminar with Daniel Defert: “Reflections on Foucault’s Will to Know”

Posted on September 16, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
http://vimeo.com/65643362 Info from the site Political Science Department and the The France Chicago Center present “Reflections on Foucault’s Lessons on the Will to Know”, with Daniel Defert, Moderated by Bernard E. Harcourt Julius Kreeger Professor…

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An interview with Steve Fuller on being an intellectual today

Posted on September 16, 2013 by stuartelden

Interesting interview with Steve Fuller.

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The ‘Fiche Technique’ from Foucault, Power, Norm, Strategy – available online

Posted on September 16, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve previously posted about my finally getting a copy of the long out-of-print Michel Foucault, Power, Truth, Strategy – hard to find and generally expensive second-hand. This contains some translations of pieces by Foucault (many are in Power/Knowledge in different … Continue reading →

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