Monthly Archives: April 2014

Ernesto Laclau RIP

Posted on April 17, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on occasional links & commentary:
Ernest0 Laclau was, by all accounts, a decent, gentle man and a path-breaking scholar on the Left. I first became aware of Laclau in terms of his participation in the famous “modes of…

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Elisabeth Roudinesco on Judith Butler at the Verso blog and in Le Monde

Posted on April 17, 2014 by stuartelden

Judith Butler, the Iconoclast: Elisabeth Roudinesco on Judith Butler – English here; French here.

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Peter Sloterdijk, ‘The Domestication of Being’ – discussed at Aphelis

Posted on April 16, 2014 by stuartelden

At his Aphelis blog, Philippe Theophanidis discusses versions and translations of Peter Sloterdijk’s essay “Die Domestikation des Seins. Für eine Verdeutlichung der Lichtung”. The excerpt quoted [here] comes from a translation of the fourth and final chapter of the essay. For a … Continue reading →

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Robert J. Mayhew, Malthus: The Life and Legacies of an Untimely Prophet

Posted on April 16, 2014 by stuartelden

Robert J. Mayhew’s book Malthus: The Life and Legacies of an Untimely Prophet has just been published by Harvard University Press. Thomas Robert Malthus’s An Essay on the Principle of Population was an immediate succès de scandale when it appeared in 1798. Arguing that nature is niggardly … Continue reading →

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A tale of two regicides (2014)

Posted on April 16, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Mooney, J. A tale of two regicides (2014) European Journal of Criminology, 11 (2), pp. 228-250. Abstract This paper examines two attempted 18th century cases of regicide: those of Robert François Damiens against Louis XV…

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Henri Lefebvre on holiday – and other pictures

Posted on April 15, 2014 by stuartelden

While looking for something else, I came across this picture of Henri Lefebvre on holiday with his then-wife Nicole Beaurain and daughter Armelle in the early 1970s. There are a couple of other archive pictures here, including Lefebvre at the Moureux … Continue reading →

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‘A racism without races’: An interview with Étienne Balibar

Posted on April 15, 2014 by stuartelden

‘A racism without races’: An interview with Étienne Balibar at the Verso site.

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Reece Jones and Corey Johnson, Placing the Border in Everyday Life – forthcoming in May, and Chapter One free to download

Posted on April 15, 2014 by stuartelden

Reece Jones and Corey Johnson (eds.), Placing the Border in Everyday Life – forthcoming in May 2014. Bordering no longer happens only at the borderline separating two sovereign states, but rather through a wide range of practices and decisions that occur in … Continue reading →

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University of Essex tribute to Ernesto Laclau

Posted on April 15, 2014 by stuartelden

University of Essex tribute to Ernesto Laclau. There is also a round-up of some other stories at critical-theory.com

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Biosocial Becomings reviewed

Posted on April 15, 2014 by stuartelden

Kim Ward reviews Biosocial Becomings: Integrating Social and Biological Anthropology, a new collection edited by Tim Ingold and Gisli Palsson at the Society and Space open site.

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