Author Archives: stuartelden

David Beer, The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception – Sage 2018 (Society and Space series)

Posted on December 4, 2018 by stuartelden

David Beer, The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception is now published. This is the latest book in the Sage Society and Space book series, which I edit. A significant new way of understanding contemporary capitalism is to understand the intensification … Continue reading →

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Books received – Agamben, Shakespeare, Lecourt, Bataille, Vitale, Zartaloudis, Massey

Posted on December 3, 2018 by stuartelden

Giorgio Agamben, Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm; All’s Well That Ends Well (the penultimate volume of the Arden Shakespeare, third series), Dominique Lecourt, Proletarian Science; Georges Bataille, The Absence of Myth; Francisco Vitale, Biodeconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the … Continue reading →

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Workshop on Rethinking the Sea in IR, Krakow 26-29 June 2019

Posted on December 3, 2018 by stuartelden

Workshop on the Sea in IR, Krakow 26-29 June 2019 – flyer here

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Elizabeth Grosz, The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics and the Limits of Materialism – Columbia UP 2018

Posted on December 3, 2018 by stuartelden

Elizabeth Grosz, The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics and the Limits of Materialism – Columbia University Press, 2018 Philosophy has inherited a powerful impulse to embrace either dualism or a reductive monism—either a radical separation of mind and body or the reduction … Continue reading →

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Christian C. Lentz, Contested Territory: Ðien Biên Phu and the Making of Northwest Vietnam – Yale University Press, 2019

Posted on December 3, 2018 by stuartelden

Christian C. Lentz, Contested Territory: Ðien Biên Phu and the Making of Northwest Vietnam – Yale University Press, 2019 The definitive account of one of the most important battles of the twentieth century, and the Black River borderlands’ transformation into … Continue reading →

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‘Foucault before The History of Madness’, Sussex, 7 December 2018

Posted on December 1, 2018 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I’ll be speaking at the University of Sussex on 7 December 2018 on ‘Foucault before The History of Madness – Lectures, Translations, Nietzsche’. The talk draws on the research i’ve been doing for The Early Foucault. The…

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Truth, Fiction, Illusion: Worlds and Experience – Association for Philosophy and Literature conference, May 29-June 2 2019 – Mbembe, Stiegler, Elden, Cixous (?)

Posted on November 26, 2018 by stuartelden

CFP: Truth, Fiction, Illusion: Worlds and Experience – Association for Philosophy and Literature conference, with Theory, Culture & Society and Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria, May 29-June 2 2019 Peter Gratton adds that the speakers will include Bernard Stiegler, Achille Mbembe, … Continue reading →

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Thanos Zartaloudis, The Birth of Nomos – Edinburgh University Press, November 2018

Posted on November 26, 2018 by stuartelden

Thanos Zartaloudis, The Birth of Nomos – Edinburgh University Press, 2018 Unfortunately only in an expensive hardback at present, but this looks a major study. Delves into the history of the ancient Greek word nomos (and related words) to reveal … Continue reading →

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Books received – Bataille, Bousquet, Elders, Barney & Montag (eds.), de Ipola, Venn

Posted on November 21, 2018 by stuartelden

Georges Bataille, Une Liberté Souveraine; Antoine Bousquet, The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone; Fons Elders, Reflexive Water; Richard Barney and Warren Montag (eds.), Systems of Life: Biopolitics, Economics and Literature on the Cusp of … Continue reading →

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CFP: Truth, Fiction, Illusion: Worlds and Experience – APL conference, Klagenfurt, Austria, May 29-June 2 2019

Posted on November 21, 2018 by stuartelden

CFP: Truth, Fiction, Illusion: Worlds and Experience – Association for Philosophy and Literature conference, with Theory, Culture & Society and Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria, May 29-June 2 2019

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