Monthly Archives: January 2014

Books received – Lefebvre, Foucault, Agamben, animals, journals

Posted on January 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Lefebvre’s Dialectical Materialism (the 2009 edition with introduction by Stefan Kipfer); Lynne Huffer’s Mad for Foucault; Lynn Turner’s collection The Animal Question in Deconstruction; William Watkin’s Agamben and Indifference; Nicole Shukin’s Animal Capital; the new issue of RIPE; and the new … Continue reading →

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Stockerblog on Foucault’s Punitive Society II

Posted on January 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Stockerblog continues the reading of Foucault’s  La société punitive – here (part one here).

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Marina Warner on ‘Maps and Monsters’ in the NYRB

Posted on January 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Marina Warner discusses ‘Maps and Monsters‘ in the NYRB, with some striking images.

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2013 round-up

Posted on January 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Pluto Press’s 2013 round-up…

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Lexical Distance Among the Languages of Europe

Posted on January 8, 2014 by stuartelden

An interesting linguistic map of Europe.

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Winter 2014 Chicago Shorts – University of Chicago Press books

Posted on January 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Full details here – University of Chicago Press’s interesting project of making short books available electronically and, crucially, at very cheap prices (compare Palgrave Pivot…) Among the Winter Shorts, you’ll find: Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom: A Brief Introduction by Bruce Caldwell … Continue reading →

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Predator drone poster by General Atomics

Posted on January 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Understanding Empire: Technology, Power, Politics:
I haven’t been able to find a better image of the one below – a photo of a Predator drone superimposed over planet earth. I remember seeing something similar to this “commercial”…

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On Derrida’s 1964-65 course on Heidegger (review in French)

Posted on January 7, 2014 by stuartelden

A review (in French) of Derrida’s 1964-65 course Heidegger la Question de l’Être et l’Histoire. Thanks to Sebastian Budgen for the link.

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Foucault’s Lectures on the Punitive Society I

Posted on January 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Last month EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil Paris published Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France in the 1972-73 academic session, in fact they all date from 1973. The edition has been prepared by Bernard Harcourt under the direction…

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London Critical Theory Summer School 2014

Posted on January 7, 2014 by stuartelden

The fifth London Critical Theory Summer School will take place at Birkbeck, University of London from 7th July – 18th July. This unique opportunity is for graduate students and academics to follow a course of study with some of the … Continue reading →

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