Monthly Archives: January 2018

Matthew Longo, Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 – now out with CUP

Posted on January 8, 2018 by stuartelden

Matthew Longo, Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 – now out with Cambridge University Press. Borders sit at the center of global politics. Yet they are too often understood as thin lines, as they appear on … Continue reading →

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Reassessing the Trump presidency, one year on – forum in Political Geography (open access)

Posted on January 8, 2018 by stuartelden

Reassessing the Trump presidency, one year on – forum in Political Geography with Philip E.Steinberg, Sam Page, Jason Dittmer, Banu Gökariksel, Sara Smith, Alan Ingram and Natalie Koch

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Alex Danchev on research and French archives and libraries

Posted on January 8, 2018 by stuartelden

Just finished reading Alex Danchev’s very interesting Georges Braque: A Life. Among other things, I was struck by just how much archival work he did. Here’s his comment from the acknowledgements on research and French archives: Researching is adventuring into the unknown. Blandine … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, The Survival of Capitalism – how to reconstruct an English version of the French text

Posted on January 8, 2018 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre’s 1973 book La survie du capitalisme: La reproduction des rapports de production (Anthropos, third edition 2002) was one of the relatively few of his books which was translated within a few years of its initial publication. Many of … Continue reading →

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302 interviews with philosophers at 3am Magazine

Posted on January 7, 2018 by stuartelden

End times philosophy interviews: the first 302 Thematically organised interviews at 3am Magazine. Thanks to David Beer for the link.

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For a Marxist Poetics of Science: An Interview with Esther Leslie

Posted on January 6, 2018 by stuartelden

For a Marxist Poetics of Science: An Interview with Esther Leslie at the Verso blog or in Historical Materialism In this career-spanning interview with George Souvlis, Esther Leslie discusses Walter Benjamin, animated film, the history of color, the Historical Materialism project, and … Continue reading →

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Figure/Ground interview with Leonard Lawlor

Posted on January 6, 2018 by stuartelden

Figure/Ground interview with Leonard Lawlor – lots of good discussion of European philosophy, including Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Heidegger and Lyotard. Also some interesting comments about writing: What advice would you give to young graduate students and aspiring university professors? I … Continue reading →

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Foucault, Les aveux de la chair – Gallimard page and a few more details

Posted on January 6, 2018 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Les aveux de la chair, the fourth volume of his History of Sexuality, is scheduled for publication in February 2018. The Gallimard page now has a few more details, including its length at 448 pages (volumes II and III, in the … Continue reading →

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A Marxist critique of higher education – David Harvey interview

Posted on January 5, 2018 by stuartelden

A Marxist critique of higher education – David Harvey interview at FreshEd To celebrate the 100th episode of FreshEd, I’ve saved an interview with a very special guest. Back in October, I had the privilege of sitting down with Professor … Continue reading →

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In the Shadow of Dictatorship: Foucault in Brazil – Marcelo Hoffman video abstract

Posted on January 5, 2018 by stuartelden

In this short video, Marcelo Hoffman discusses his review essay of Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues’s book Ensaios sobre Michel Foucault no Brasil: Presença, efeitos, ressonâncias (Michel Foucault in Brazil: Presence, Effects, Resonances). His full review is available online and in … Continue reading →

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