Monthly Archives: May 2014

David Harvey and Andy Merrifield in conversation at Birkbeck

Posted on May 2, 2014 by stuartelden

Thanks to dmfant for the link in comments to a previous post. [David Harvey doesn’t begin talking until 48 minutes in.]

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The Actuality of the Theologico-Political – Conference in London May 23-24

Posted on May 2, 2014 by stuartelden

The Actuality of the Theologico-Political – Conference in London May 23-24, 2014 Today’s (post) political thought has been turned into an ethics and a legal philosophy. The business of politics is supposed to promote moral values and ethical policies which … Continue reading →

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Ryan Brading on Ernesto Laclau as Theorist of Populism

Posted on May 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Another nice tribute to Ernesto Laclau, this time by Ryan Brading on his work as a theorist of populism at Adam David Morton’s For the Desk Drawer blog.

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Call for Papers: Philadelphia Summer School in Continental Philosophy with John Caputo

Posted on May 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Call for Papers: Philadelphia Summer School in Continental Philosophy – Topic: “Continental Philosophy of Religion and the New Metaphysics” (featuring seminars on the work of Quentin Meillassoux, Ray Brassier, Bruno Latour, and Catherine Malabou) Seminar Leader: John Caputo Saturday, August 9th, … Continue reading →

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Lois McNay, The Misguided Search for the Political

Posted on May 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Lois McNay’s new book, The Misguided Search for the Political, has just been published by Polity Press. There has been a lively debate amongst political theorists about whether certain liberal concepts of democracy are so idealized that they lack relevance to … Continue reading →

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David Harvey, Megacities Lecture 4: Possible Urban Worlds – pdf online

Posted on May 1, 2014 by stuartelden

In 2000 David Harvey gave the Megacities Lecture 4: Possible Urban Worlds Twynstra Gudde Management Consultants, Amersfoort, The Netherlands, 2000). It’s the one key text of Harvey’s that I didn’t already know, partly because it doesn’t appear to be on sale … Continue reading →

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Tom Slater’s Bibliography on ‘Territorial Stigmatization’

Posted on May 1, 2014 by stuartelden

This is a useful resource – Tom Slater’s ‘An International Bibliography on Territorial Stigmatization‘. The work on this develops from Loïc Wacquant’s Urban Outcasts, and earlier references, with the suggestion that “the exploration of contemporary urban poverty must start with the powerful … Continue reading →

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Saskia Sassen, ‘Expulsions: Complexity and Brutality’ – lectures at Durham, LSE and Dublin

Posted on May 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Saskia Sassen’s Expulsions is forthcoming in June 2014. Saskia Sassen, “Expulsions: Complexity and Brutality” – lecture at Durham University in February 2014 (via ANTHEM). Update: a lecture at the LSE on the same topic is available here (via The Anthropo.scene] And one … Continue reading →

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Reconstruction of the Machine from Franz Kafka’s In the Penal Colony

Posted on May 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
?  “However,” the Officer said, interrupting himself, “I’m chattering, and his apparatus stands here in front of us. As you see, it consists of three parts. With the passage of time certain popular names have been…

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