Monthly Archives: September 2013

The Stuart Hall project – film out this week

Highly acclaimed at this year’s Sundance and Sheffield Documentary festivals, the new film from award-winning documentarian John Akomfrah (The Nine Muses) is a sensitive, emotionally charged portrait of cultural theorist Stuart Hall. A founding figure of contemporary cultural studies – … Continue reading

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On the Migration of Whitehead from Analytical Philosophy to Continental Philosophy – New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
A nice post at APPS on the migration of Whitehead to Continental thought. On the Migration of Whitehead from Analytical Philosophy to Continental Philosophy – New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science.

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Ian Hacking on DSM-5: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

Ian Hacking reviews DSM-5: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in the London Review of Books (open access). Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for the link.

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Foucault’s 1970-71 course Lectures on the Will to Know reviewed in The New Inquiry

Christopher Chitty reviews Foucault’s 1970-71 course Lectures on the Will to Know in The New Inquiry. Thanks to John Protevi for the link.

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Making edited collections work – a publisher’s perspective

Rowman and Littlefield International offer some interesting perspectives and advice (see also the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog, where three people offer defences of edited collections – I’ve previously linked to this.)

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John Protevi, Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the Sciences – reviewed by Todd May

John Protevi’s Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the Sciences is reviewed by Todd May at NDPR.

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Politics and the Later Latour – call for papers

Posted on behalf of Mark Edward: Call for Papers: Politics and the Later Latour Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought Volume 4: Issue 4, November 2014 This August sees the publication of the English translation of Bruno … Continue reading

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Walter Benjamin discussion audio

Benjamin discussed on Radio 4, with Esther Leslie, Jonathan Ree and Laurie Taylor.

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On becoming things: An interview with Axel Honneth

Interview with Axel Honneth from the Platypus Review.

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The myth of deterritorialization: Rogério Haesbaert reviewed

An excellent review of a really important-sounding book on territory, deterritorialisation and multiterritoriality. The book was written in Portuguese, and translated into Spanish – I’ll try to see what of Haesbaert’s work is available in French, as it appears there … Continue reading

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