Author Archives: stuartelden

Foucault resources – some updates and reorganisation

Posted on October 7, 2019 by stuartelden

While I’ve been writing the sequence of books on Foucault for Polity – Foucault’s Last Decade;  Foucault: The Birth of Power and the ongoing The Early Foucault – I’ve been making available some research resources. These have included bibliographies, lists of audio and … Continue reading →

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Books received – Arendt, Bataille, Wahl

Posted on October 7, 2019 by stuartelden

Some books recently bought second-hand – mainly by Hannah Arendt but also Bataille’s Eroticism and Jean Wahl, Esquisse pour une histoire de l’existentialisme. I’ve read most of the Arendt books before, but I’m teaching her again this year and so it’s helpful … Continue reading →

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Miles Ogborn, The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World, University of Chicago Press, 2019

Posted on October 4, 2019 by stuartelden

Miles Ogborn, The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World, University of Chicago Press, 2019 The institution of slavery has always depended on enforcing the boundaries between slaveholders and the enslaved. As historical geographer Miles Ogborn reveals … Continue reading →

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Land and Territory – Thinking Aloud with Brett Christophers and Penelope Anthias

Posted on October 4, 2019 by stuartelden

Land and territory on Thinking Allowed Land Struggles: From Bolivia to Britain, the way that land is owned and controlled is central to many contemporary inequalities and political battles. Laurie Taylor talks to Brett Christophers, Professor in the Department of Social … Continue reading →

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Kate Kirkpatrick, Becoming Beauvoir: A Life – Bloomsbury, 2019 (and short piece in The Guardian)

Posted on October 4, 2019 by stuartelden

Kate Kirkpatrick, Becoming Beauvoir: A Life – Bloomsbury, 2019 “One is not born a woman, but becomes one”, Simone de Beauvoir A symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir’s unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer, and … Continue reading →

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Warwick IAS WIRL-COFUND 2 year early career fellowships

Posted on October 4, 2019 by stuartelden

The Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) at the University of Warwick is pleased to announce that up to five fellowships will be available in 2019 as part of the Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Leadership programme (WIRL-COFUND). The WIRL-COFUND fellowships are jointly … Continue reading →

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Two four-year post-doctoral positions, University of Warwick – ‘Neoliberal Terror: The Radicalisation of Social Policy in Europe’

Posted on October 4, 2019 by stuartelden

The Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick have two post-doctoral positions available, and seek your help sharing the vacancies.  Each post-doc has a fixed four-year term of employment, working on the European Research Council funded … Continue reading →

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Books received – Baxstrom & Meyers, Nietzsche, Bloch, Bataille, Quiring, Sjöholm, Morin

Posted on October 2, 2019 by stuartelden

Richard Baxstrom & Todd Meyers, Violence’s Failed Experiment; Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Marc Bloch, Feudal Society; Mark Hewson and Marcus Coelen, Georges Bataille: Key Concepts; Björn Quiring, Shakespeare’s Curse; Cecilia Sjöholm, Kristeva and the Political; and Karin M. Morin, Carceral … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Folie, langage, littérature (2019)

Posted on October 1, 2019 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michel Foucault, Folie, langage, littérature Édition établie par H.-P. Fruchaud, D. Lorenzini et J. Revel. Introduction par J. Revel. Vrin 2019 La folie, le langage et la littérature ont longtemps occupé une place centrale dans…

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New issue of Radical Philosophy published

Posted on October 1, 2019 by stuartelden

The new Radical Philosophy issue is now online, with a dossier in memoriam of Sabah Mahmood, and contributions by Angela Davis, Elsa Dorlin, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and many others. Open access here – https://www.radicalphilosophy.com

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