Monthly Archives: April 2014

Henri Lefebvre, Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment – online preview of introduction

Posted on April 2, 2014 by stuartelden

The introduction to Lefebvre’s keenly anticipated Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is available to read online at Artforum. I will be interviewing editor Łukasz Stanek for the Society and Space open site in the near future.

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The 2014 Antipode AAG Lecture – ‘Zones of Black Death: Institutions, Knowledges, and States of Being’ by Rinaldo Walcott

Posted on April 2, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
Join us for session 2626 in Tampa, Florida – Wednesday 9th April from 4:40pm to 6:20pm in Ballroom A, TCC/Tampa Convention Center, First Floor. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception, thanks to…

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Wahida Khandker, Philosophy, Animality and the Life Sciences – interview

Posted on April 2, 2014 by stuartelden

Wahida Khandker’s book Philosophy, Animality and the Life Sciences is forthcoming in July with Edinburgh University Press. A study of pathological concepts of animal life in Continental philosophy from Bergson to Haraway Using animals for scientific research is a highly contentious issue … Continue reading →

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Books received – Derrida, Stiegler, Comay, Taubes, Azoulay & Ophir, Serres

Posted on April 2, 2014 by stuartelden

A number of books from Stanford University Press in recompense for review work.

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Books received- Jaspers, Thompson, Heidegger, journals

Posted on April 2, 2014 by stuartelden

Another pile of post today – three books by Karl Jaspers, including his Groningen lectures Reason and Existenz; Richard Yarwood’s Citizenship;the re-edition of E.P. Thompson’s Warwick University Ltd; the first volume of Heidegger’s Schwartze Hefte; and some new issues of … Continue reading →

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Jacques le Goff (1924-2014)

Posted on April 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Jacques le Goff, medieval historian, has died at the age of ninety. I found his work really helpful while writing The Birth of Territory, and recently consulted his collection Hérésies et sociétés dans l’Europe pré-industrielle, 11e-18e siècles in which Foucault has a chapter. There … Continue reading →

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Stanford Briefs – manuscripts in the humanities wanted

Posted on April 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Stanford University Press have an imprint for shorter texts with a much quicker turnaround from acceptance to publication – Stanford Briefs. The imprint is across all the press’s disciplines, but I’ve been talking to senior editor Emily-Jane Cohen about the lists … Continue reading →

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Graham Harman interviews with Levi Bryant and Tristan Garcia’s translators

Posted on April 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Two interesting interviews to accompany the EUP book series. Mark Allan Ohm and Jon Cogburn about their translation of Tristan Garcia’s Form and Object. Levi Bryant on his new book Onto-Cartography. You can read the introductions to these, and Adrian Johnston’s … Continue reading →

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Edinburgh University Press to publish critical edition of Whitehead’s works

Posted on April 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Object-Oriented Philosophy:
Great news just received in a circular email from Brian G. Henning. And what better city for a critical edition of Whitehead to be published in than Edinburgh, site of the Gifford Lectures that became…

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7 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in March

Posted on April 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Critical-theory.com has another list of recently published books – Roudinesco on Lacan, Despret & Stengers, Negra & Tasker, Critchley, Shults, Zizek and Grant.

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