Monthly Archives: October 2018

Andy Merrifield, Endgame Marxism (and Urbanism)

Posted on October 12, 2018 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield on Marx, Beckett and more…

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Intervention – “Christine Blasey Ford and Geographies of Aggression and Repair”

Posted on October 12, 2018 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
Natalie Oswin Department of Geography, McGill University natalie.oswin@mcgill.ca Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, DC on Thursday 27 September 2018. Commentaries on this event are already so numerous they…

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Cover design, endorsements and preorder details for Stuart Elden, Canguilhem – Polity, 2019

Posted on October 9, 2018 by stuartelden

I’m pleased to share the cover design of my forthcoming book Canguilhem (Polity, 2019). It’s part of the Key Contemporary Thinkers series and is available to preorder from Wiley in ebook, paperback and hardcover. The book is due for publication in February … Continue reading →

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Books received – Latour, TCS, Erlenbusch-Anderson, Geroulanos and Meyers, Benite, Geroulanos and Jerr (eds.), Bataille

Posted on October 9, 2018 by stuartelden

Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime; the latest Theory, Culture and Society which is a theme issue on Bataille and Heterology; Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Violence, Empire; Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers, … Continue reading →

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Laurence Lampert, What a Philosopher Is? Becoming Nietzsche – reviewed at NDPR

Posted on October 9, 2018 by stuartelden

Laurence Lampert, What a Philosopher Is? Becoming Nietzsche (U Chicago Press, 2018) – reviewed at NDPR It’s a very critical review of what sounds like a fascinating book. I suspect there is something of the clash within North American approaches to … Continue reading →

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Liz Morrish and Helen Sauntson, Academic Irregularities: Language and Neoliberalism in Higher Education – forthcoming from Routledge

Posted on October 8, 2018 by stuartelden

Liz Morrish and Helen Sauntson, Academic Irregularities: Language and Neoliberalism in Higher Education – forthcoming from Routledge. Announcement on the Academic Irregularities blog, from which I’ve taken the following description: We all know that universities in the UK and elsewhere … Continue reading →

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Francesco Vitale, Biodeconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the Life Sciences reviewed

Posted on October 5, 2018 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Francesco Vitale, Biodeconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the Life Sciences is reviewed at NDPR by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. The book appeared earlier this year with SUNY Press, translated by Mauro Senatore. Update: another good review at Critical Inquiry (thanks to…

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Book Launch: ‘The New Enclosure’ by Brett Christophers – London, October 30, 6pm

Posted on October 5, 2018 by stuartelden

Book Launch: ‘The New Enclosure’ by Brett Christophers University College London, October 30, 6pm – free, but booking required. Details of the book itself, published by Verso, are here. Much has been written about Britain’s trailblazing post-1970s privatisation programme, but … Continue reading →

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Announcing Antipode’s 7th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, Mexico City, 17-21 June 2019

Posted on October 5, 2018 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
Antipode’s 7th Institute for the Geographies of Justice Antipode’s 7th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ) will take place in Mexico City, Mexico, from June 17th to 21st 2019. To date, Antipode had hosted six Institutes for the Geographies…

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Georges Bataille on Nietzsche, the journal Acéphale and the Secret Society

Posted on October 4, 2018 by stuartelden

While I’ve mainly been consumed by start-of-term stuff, I have been following up on a few leads in relation to the Foucault work. One of these was a piece by Georges Bataille on Nietzsche, first published in his short-lived journal … Continue reading →

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