Author Archives: stuartelden

Alex Danchev, Magritte: A Life – Pantheon, November 2021

Posted on April 26, 2021 by stuartelden

Alex Danchev, Magritte: A Life – Pantheon, November 2021 This is really welcome news – Danchev’s biographies of Georges Braque and Paul Cézanne were very interesting. This book was left incomplete at the time of his death, but has been … Continue reading →

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Georges Canguilhem, Œuvres complètes Tome II: Écrits de médecine et de philosophie – Vrin, October 2021

Posted on April 26, 2021 by stuartelden

Georges Canguilhem, Œuvres complètes Tome II: Écrits de médecine et de philosophie – Vrin, October 2021 Good to see the next volume of this series listed – though previous volumes were often delayed, so the date is probably provisional. Ce … Continue reading →

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Etienne Balibar – Cosmopolitanisms: past, present, future? | LSE Online Event (video)

Posted on April 23, 2021 by stuartelden

Etienne Balibar – Cosmopolitanisms: past, present, future? | LSE Online Event Video of the talk is available here – Facebook Live introduced by Ayça Çubukçu A cosmopolitics that allows it for mankind to address its common interests is clearly needed, … Continue reading →

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Marcelo Hoffman, seminar on Militant Acts: The Role of Investigations in Radical Political Struggles (2021)

Posted on April 23, 2021 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
The Foucault Circle NL/BE invites you to join Professor Marcelo Hoffman for a talk on his latest book Date: April 26 2021 Time: 16:00 – 18:00 Central European Time Location: Online (Zoom link shared upon…

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Stéphane Castonguay, The Government of Natural Resources: Science, Territory, and State Power in Quebec, 1867–1939 – UBC Press, April 2021

Posted on April 23, 2021 by stuartelden

Stéphane Castonguay, The Government of Natural Resources: Science, Territory, and State Power in Quebec, 1867–1939 – UBC Press, April 2021 (paperback due January 2022) The Government of Natural Resources explores the development of scientific and technical activity in Quebec from Confederation … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Confessions, May 4-June 3 (2021)

Posted on April 23, 2021 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Foucault’s Confessions, May 4-June 3 2021 Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11 a.m., free and open to the public. For more information and to register, visit foucaultsconfessions.org. (See also this news item on the Rice University…

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Daniel Bensaïd, The Dispossessed: Karl Marx’s Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor – University of Minnesota Press, March 2021

Posted on April 20, 2021 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Daniel Bensaïd, The Dispossessed: Karl Marx’s Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor – University of Minnesota Press, translated by Robert Nichols, March 2021 The politics of dispossession are everywhere. Troubling developments…

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Books received – Eliade, Bratton, Lacan, Jacobsen & Beer, Benveniste, Backès-Clément, Deleuze, Kristeva, Witmore

Posted on April 16, 2021 by stuartelden

Several bought second-hand, along with Benjamin Bratton, The Revenge of the Real: Post-Pandemic Politics sent by Verso; Ben Jacobsen and David Beer, Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past, sent by … Continue reading →

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Carlo Ginzburg, Nevertheless: Machiavelli, Pascal – Verso, January 2022

Posted on April 16, 2021 by stuartelden

Carlo Ginzburg, Nevertheless: Machiavelli, Pascal – Verso, January 2022 Through his repeated use of the adverb nondimanco (“nevertheless”), Machiavelli indicated that there is an exception to every rule. This may seem merely to confirm the traditional image of Machiavelli as a cynical, … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault and the Social Contract, Chris Watkin with Stuart Elden and Mark Kelly – video of Monash discussion, 13 April 2021

Posted on April 15, 2021 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault and the Social Contract, Chris Watkin with Stuart Elden and Mark Kelly – video of Monash discussion, 13 April 2021. Youtube video above, also available as a podcast. My talk was entitled ‘The Yoke of Law and the … Continue reading →

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