Monthly Archives: February 2014

14,000 Images of the French Revolution Released Online

Posted on February 4, 2014 by stuartelden

An amazing collection of images at the French Revolution Digital Archive – a collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (via Hyperallergic – thanks to Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz and Sebastian Budgen for the link).

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Introducing: The b2 Review

Posted on February 4, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on boundary 2:
The print edition of b2 carries only article length reviews. We are starting an initiative to publish shorter reviews and notices of books, new and old, to which we want to draw our readers’ attention. We…

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Origins of Truth: Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know (2014)

Posted on February 4, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Origins of Truth: Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know February 21-22, 2014 Stony Brook Manhattan 387 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 A conference presented by The Foucault Society and the Department of Philosophy…

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Joanna Hodge reviews Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life

Posted on February 4, 2014 by stuartelden

Joanna Hodge reviews the recent biography of Walter Benjamin. Update: there is also a review in New Republic.

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The new/old international law (journal)

Posted on February 4, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on War Law Space:
Somehow I  missed the release of the new Oxford University Press London Review of International Law journal last September (Thanks Frédéric Mégret for the heads-up). I’m very excited about this and from the journals’ blurb here’s the…

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Eyal Weizman – The Architecture of Ariel Sharon

Posted on February 4, 2014 by stuartelden

Eyal Weizman discusses Sharon’s architectural and spatial legacy at Al Jazeera. Whether in military uniform or in politics, Ariel Sharon’s time in power was characterised by construction and destruction frenzies that decisively shaped the physical realities in which both Israelis and … Continue reading →

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The Productive Body by Didier Deleule and François Guéry

Posted on February 3, 2014 by stuartelden

An important 1972 book, mentioned by Foucault in Discipline and Punish, is finally coming out in English translation in March 2014, with an excellent introduction by the translators. The Productive Body asks how the human body and its labor have been … Continue reading →

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Deleuze / Foucault: A Neoliberal Diagram (2013)

Posted on February 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Deleuze / Foucault: A Neoliberal Diagram, Mediatropes Vol 4, No 1 (2013) Link to issue. Full PDFs available Table of Contents Editorial Introduction: Neoliberal Diagrammatics and Digital Control Matthew Tiessen, Greg Elmer IPO 2.0: The…

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Brett Christophers – The Territorial Fix

Posted on February 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Brett Christophers has an interesting piece in Progress in Human Geography, entitled “The territorial fix: Price, power and profit in the geographies of markets” (requires subscription). It takes the notion of the ‘spatial fix’ developed by David Harvey and others … Continue reading →

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Peters on Jensen’s Staging Mobilities

Posted on February 3, 2014 by stuartelden

A new review at the Society and Space open site.

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