Monthly Archives: February 2015

Louis Althusser et nous – Le magazine littéraire interviews with Balibar, Rancière et. al.

Posted on February 5, 2015 by stuartelden

To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Lire Capital and Pour Marx,  Le magazine littéraire interviews Balibar, Rancière, Lévy and Milner. It also announces two forthcoming volumes of previously-unpublished material.

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Counter-terrorism and security bill is a threat to freedom of speech at universities – letter in The Guardian

Posted on February 4, 2015 by stuartelden

“Counter-terrorism and security bill is a threat to freedom of speech at universities”, letter in The Guardian from UK academics, in opposition to government plans. I’m one of over five hundred signatories (full list here). More on this in The Guardian and The Independent. … Continue reading →

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Interview with Bruno Latour from Festival of Ideas in Valparaíso, Chile

Posted on February 3, 2015 by stuartelden

In November 2014, Bruno Latour was in Chile for a Festival of Ideas in Valparaíso and was interviewed by Patricia Junge, Colombina Schaeffer and Leonardo Valenzuela. The interview is available in Spanish and English – Issuu and PDF. Thanks to Colombina for … Continue reading →

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Back down to Earth: reassembling Latour’s Anthropocenic geopolitics

Posted on February 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Speaking of Latour, Philip Conway’s article ‘Back down to Earth: reassembling Latour’s Anthropocenic geopolitics’ is now available in Global Discourse (requires subscription, or ask the author). The principal intuition of this article is that Bruno Latour’s explicitly or implicitly ‘geopolitical’ … Continue reading →

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Foucault – links to difficult-to-find short texts, and some requests for help

Posted on February 1, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ve previously posted some requests for help in locating some difficult-to-find short texts by Foucault, and thanks to readers of this site have received copies of some of these. I’ve updated the requests for help page, along with a few more requests. … Continue reading →

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on February 1, 2015 by stuartelden

Neoliberalism + Biopolitics – Conference at Berkeley, 27-28 Feb 2015 – with Balibar, Brown, Harcourt, Mbembe… The Birth of Territory reviewed in Theory, Culture and Society “Europe After The Minotaur”: free e-book from the new Finance Minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis Giorgio Agamben … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s The Punitive Society – forthcoming in English in June 2015

Posted on February 1, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s 1973 lectures On The Punitive Society are forthcoming in English in June August 2015. I have a review of the French text at Berfrois (open access); and a review essay forthcoming in Historical Materialism (preprint here). These thirteen lectures on the ‘punitive … Continue reading →

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Books on Lefebvre in English – why are six of ten with Routledge?

Posted on February 1, 2015 by stuartelden

By my count, there are ten eleven books on Henri Lefebvre in English. Six of these are with Routledge – Shields, Merrifield, Goonewardena et. al., Butler, Middleton and Coleman – and four five with other publishers – Burkhard, Elden, Fraser, Stanek [and Stanek et. al.]. … Continue reading →

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