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Christopher Watkin, “So you want to read Michel Serres? Start here”

Posted on April 23, 2020 by stuartelden

A very useful reading guide from Christopher Watkin, author of the recently published Michel Serres: Figures of Thought from Edinburgh University Press. I recently received an email from someone wanting to get into Michel Serres’s writing in English translation, and asking … Continue reading →

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Georges Bataille’s Oeuvres complètes and English translations – addition of Vols I and II to the list

Posted on April 21, 2020 by stuartelden

I’ve done some further updating to the list of works in Georges Bataille’s Oeuvres complètes and other French collections and the English translations. The main work is the list of articles in Volume I, and the posthumous texts of Volume II, … Continue reading →

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Gunnar Olsson, Arkography: A Grand Tour through the Taken-for-Granted – University of Nebraska Press, May 2020

Posted on April 20, 2020 by stuartelden

Gunnar Olsson, Arkography: A Grand Tour through the Taken-for-Granted – University of Nebraska Press, May 2020 In this fascinating text Gunnar Olsson tells the story of an arkographer, who with Pallas Athene’s blessings, travels down the Red River Valley, navigates … Continue reading →

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Joseph Pugliese, Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human: Forensic Ecologies of Violence – Duke University Press, November 2020

Posted on April 18, 2020 by stuartelden

Joseph Pugliese, Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human: Forensic Ecologies of Violence – Duke University Press, November 2020 News from Derek Gregory of what sounds like a really interesting and important book. In Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human Joseph Pugliese examines the concept … Continue reading →

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Louise Amoore: Our lives with algorithms (video)

Posted on April 17, 2020 by stuartelden

From detecting anomalies in the landscape of medical images to drone footage to the influencing of elections, machine learning algorithms are transforming radically how we make sense in society. Deep neural net algorithms condense the features of a scene to … Continue reading →

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Undisciplined podcast with Nico Buitendag – Episode 7: Politics of Movement interview with Thomas Nail

Posted on April 17, 2020 by stuartelden

Undisciplined podcast – Nico Buitendag Episode 7: Politics of Movement interview with Thomas Nail The other interviews in this series can either be found on the Soundcloud page or Youtube – Simon Springer, Sandro Mezzadra, and others.

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Historical Materialism Seventeenth Annual Conference, 12-15 November 2020 London

Posted on April 16, 2020 by stuartelden

Historical Materialism Seventeenth Annual Conference Survival Pending Revolution: Historical Materialism in a Pandemic Age* 12-15 November 2020 Central London Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2020 https://conference.historicalmaterialism.org/ It is a commonplace in the left’s theoretical imaginary that crises have a revelatory … Continue reading →

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Georges Bataille’s Oeuvres complètes and English translations – list updated and a couple of questions

Posted on April 16, 2020 by stuartelden

I’ve done some updating to the list of works in Georges Bataille’s Oeuvres complètes and other French collections and the English translations. This includes some links to books, a bit of detail on texts in The College of Sociology not in the … Continue reading →

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Santiago Zabala, Being at Large: Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts – McGill-Queen’s University Press, April 2020

Posted on April 16, 2020 by stuartelden

Santiago Zabala, Being at Large: Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts – McGill-Queen’s University Press, April 2020 Politicians and philosophers presenting themselves as the ultimate bearers of truth and reality have created unprecedented technological, cultural, and political framings. This … Continue reading →

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Duncan Bell, Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America – Princeton University Press, August 2020

Posted on April 15, 2020 by stuartelden

Duncan Bell, Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America – Princeton University Press, August 2020 Between the late nineteenth century and the First World War an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals advocated the unification of Britain and … Continue reading →

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