Monthly Archives: August 2017

5 Critical Theory books that came out in July 2017

Posted on August 21, 2017 by stuartelden

A useful roundup of some recently-published books

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Books received – Eribon, von Weizsäcker, Althusser, Žižek, Wyrsch, Foucault, Funnell & Dodds, Bier

Posted on August 21, 2017 by stuartelden

Some recently received books – Eribon, von Weizsäcker, Wyrsch, Bochner & Halpern, and The Cambridge Companion for the research on the early Foucault, plus Althusser, Žižek and Lisa Funnell & Klaus Dodds’s Geographies, Genders and Geopolitics of James Bond in recompense for … Continue reading →

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Gary Shapiro, Nietzsche’s Earth: Great Events, Great Politics reviewed at NDPR

Posted on August 21, 2017 by stuartelden

Gary Shapiro, Nietzsche’s Earth: Great Events, Great Politics is reviewed at NDPR by Gabriel Zamosc. This book offers a valuable and provocative contribution to the growing literature on Nietzsche’s political philosophy. It invites us to understand Nietzsche’s politics as consisting … Continue reading →

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Recent book reviews in Antipode – open access

Posted on August 21, 2017 by stuartelden

Recent book reviews in Antipode – all open access Sophie Gonick (New York University) on Matt Hern’s What a City Is For: Remaking the Politics of Displacement; Simone Tulumello (Universidade de Lisboa) on Marco Allegra, Ariel Handel and Erez Maggor’s … Continue reading →

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A week of cycling in Provence, including Mont Ventoux

Posted on August 21, 2017 by stuartelden

Back from a great week of cycling in Provence, including an ascent of Mont Ventoux, and a 100km ride doing a complete circuit of it. Sunny and warm, although the Mistral made the first few days quite windy. It’s also … Continue reading →

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Umberto Eco intervista Michel Foucault (video)

Posted on August 18, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhYPHfQZh9I From one of the comments L’incontro è avvenuto a Milano nel 1968, organizzato da Eco e da Enzo Melandri, che è il primo degli intervistatori in questo breve video. Una foto dell’incontro è stata…

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The Early Foucault update 9: from Shakespeare back to Foucault and Canguilhem

Posted on August 9, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ve spent most of the first half of the summer revising my Shakespeare manuscript, which is now resubmitted. But I have been doing a little work on the early Foucault in the meantime, and on Canguilhem. With the latter, much … Continue reading →

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Phoebe Moore’s new book: The Quantified Self in Precarity: Work, Technology and What Counts

Posted on August 9, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Phoebe V Moore:
My next book is about to come out. Published by Routledge, this is the summation of about four years of work I have been doing on the quantified self at work. The Quantified Self…

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Phoebe V. Moore, The Quantified Self in Precarity – forthcoming from Routledge

Posted on August 9, 2017 by stuartelden

Phoebe V. Moore, The Quantified Self in Precarity: Work, Technology and What Counts – forthcoming from Routledge. Looks great, but what a shame about the awful price. [Update: a paperback will follow] Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what … Continue reading →

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How to plan, create and launch a successful multi-author academic blog – advice from the LSE Impact of Social Sciences

Posted on August 9, 2017 by stuartelden

How to plan, create and launch a successful multi-author academic blog – advice from the LSE Impact of Social Sciences.

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