Author Archives: stuartelden

Kathryn Medien, ‘Foucault in Tunisia: The encounter with intolerable power’, The Sociological Review 2019

Posted on September 11, 2019 by stuartelden

Kathryn Medien, ‘Foucault in Tunisia: The encounter with intolerable power‘, The Sociological Review, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026119870107 (requires subscription) In September 1966, 10 years after Tunisia officially gained independence from French colonial rule, Michel Foucault took up a three-year secondment, teaching philosophy … Continue reading →

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Free download of Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, Verso until September 7, 2019

Posted on September 6, 2019 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Download Metaphilosophy by Henri Lefebvre – for free! – until Saturday, September 7th! Until September 7th, we’re giving away the ebook edition of Henri Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy. An essential book on our Philosophy: Verso Student Reading list, and a key text in…

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‘Migration, Affect and Political Space’: An International Political Sociology and Geography Seminar, Goldsmiths College London, 9 October 2019

Posted on September 5, 2019 by stuartelden

‘Migration, Affect and Political Space’: An International Political Sociology and Geography Seminar, Goldsmiths College London, 9 October 2019 Organised by Dr Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmiths College, London) and Dr Angharad Closs Stephens (Swansea University). Against a backdrop of heightened attention to … Continue reading →

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Free download of Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, Verso until September 7, 2019

Posted on September 4, 2019 by stuartelden

Download Metaphilosophy by Henri Lefebvre – for free! – until Saturday, September 7th! Until September 7th, we’re giving away the ebook edition of Henri Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy. An essential book on our Philosophy: Verso Student Reading list, and a key text in Lefebvre’s oeuvre, Metaphilosophy is a milestone in … Continue reading →

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Hannah Arendt and Shakespeare programme, Sept 7, 2019

Posted on August 30, 2019 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Kingston Shakespeare Seminar:
KINGSTON SHAKESPEARE SEMINAR AT GARRICK’S TEMPLE SATURDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2019 HANNAH ARENDT AND SHAKESPEARE 09.30: Coffee (Temple Pavilion)  10.00:  Chair: Richard Wilson (Kingston University) Avraham Oz (University of Haifa): ‘Arendt, Shakespeare and the Banality…

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Natalie Oswin, Global City Futures: Desire and Development in Singapore – UGA Press, 2019

Posted on August 30, 2019 by stuartelden

Natalie Oswin, Global City Futures: Desire and Development in Singapore – UGA Press, 2019 Global City Futures offers a queer analysis of urban and national development in Singapore, the Southeast Asian city-state commonly cast as a leading “global city.” Much … Continue reading →

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Duncan Kelly, Politics and the Anthropocene – Polity, August 2019

Posted on August 30, 2019 by stuartelden

Duncan Kelly, Politics and the Anthropocene – Polity, August 2019 The Anthropocene has become central to understanding the intimate connections between human life and the natural environment, but it has fractured our sense of time and possibility. What implications does … Continue reading →

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Marcel M. van der Linden and Gerald Hubmann (eds.), Marx’s Capital: An Unfinishable Project? Haymarket, 2019

Posted on August 29, 2019 by stuartelden

Marcel M. van der Linden and Gerald Hubmann (eds.), Marx’s Capital: An Unfinishable Project? Haymarket, 2019 Good to see this is now available in paperback For almost 150 years, scholars have been debating how to interpret Marx’s seminal work Capital … Continue reading →

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‘Terrain, Politics, History’, Dialogues lecture at the RGS-IBG conference (audio recording)

Posted on August 29, 2019 by stuartelden

Yesterday I gave the Dialogues in Human Geography lecture at the RGS-IBG conference at the Royal Geographical Society in London on the theme of ‘Terrain, Politics, History’. It was chaired by Jeremy Crampton and had responses from Kimberley Peters, Rachael … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault update 26 – Defert, Wahl, Warsaw, Hamburg, Dumézil

Posted on August 23, 2019 by stuartelden

Since the last update, and a short holiday in Wales, I’ve been systematically going through each of the previously drafted chapters, and doing a bit of reorganization. I’ve also worked through all the issues of Le Magazine Littéraire which have theme … Continue reading →

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