Author Archives: stuartelden

2018 Antipode lectures – videos online of Derek Gregory, Glen Coulthard and Silvia Federici

Posted on September 20, 2018 by stuartelden

Previous years are here – an extraordinary archive

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Books received – Dodds, McCormack, Derrida, Basso, Rekret, Brighenti and Kärrholm

Posted on September 20, 2018 by stuartelden

Klaus Dodds, Ice: Nature and Culture; Derek McCormack, Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment; Jacques Derrida, The Ear of the Other; Elisabetta Basso, Michel Foucault et la Daseinsanalyse; The Derrida Reader edited by Julian Wolfreys; Paul Rekret, Derrida and Foucault, Andrea Mubi Brighenti … Continue reading →

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Natalie Koch, The Geopolitics of Spectacle (Cornell University Press, 2018) – reviewed at LSE review of Books by Kristin Eggeling

Posted on September 19, 2018 by stuartelden

Natalie Koch, The Geopolitics of Spectacle: Space, Synedoche and the New Capitals of Asia (Cornell University Press, 2018) – reviewed at LSE Review of Books by Kristin Eggeling Why do autocrats build spectacular new capital cities? In The Geopolitics of Spectacle, … Continue reading →

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Miguel de Beistegui, The Government of Desire: A Genealogy of the Liberal Subject  – reviewed by John Protevi at NDPR

Posted on September 19, 2018 by stuartelden

Miguel de Beistegui, The Government of Desire: A Genealogy of the Liberal Subject (University of Chicago Press, 2018) – reviewed by John Protevi at NDPR. Here’s the press’s description of the book: Liberalism, Miguel de Beistegui argues in The Government of Desire, … Continue reading →

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Paul Virilio (1932-2018) – obituary at France Culture and at Frieze by McKenzie Wark

Posted on September 19, 2018 by stuartelden

Paul Virilio (1932-2018) – obituary at France Culture and at Frieze by McKenzie Wark Virilio was one of the last representatives of a hugely influential generation of French theorists. Personally I found his early work most of interest – from Bunker … Continue reading →

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Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime – reviewed at LARB

Posted on September 19, 2018 by stuartelden

The book I mentioned yesterday – Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime – is reviewed, in its French edition, in the Los Angeles Review of Books by James Delbourgo.

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Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime – Polity, September 2018

Posted on September 17, 2018 by stuartelden

Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime – Polity, September 2018 The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive … Continue reading →

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Samuel Talcott, Georges Canguilhem and the Problem of Error – Palgrave, February 2019

Posted on September 17, 2018 by stuartelden

Samuel Talcott, Georges Canguilhem and the Problem of Error – Palgrave, February 2019 Examining Georges Canguilhem’s enduring attention to the problem of error, from his early writings to Michel Foucault’s first major responses to his work, this pathbreaking book shows … Continue reading →

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London Group of Historical Geographers Seminar Programme, Autumn Term 2018: Unsettling Land

Posted on September 12, 2018 by stuartelden

London Group of Historical Geographers Seminar Programme, Autumn Term 2018: Unsettling Land 16 October 2018 David Matless (University of Nottingham) Next the sea: Eccles and the Anthroposcenic. 30 October 2018 Bergit Arends (Tate) Photographing the landscapes of the Anthropocene: Nguyen … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Penal Theories and Institutions – Palgrave, January 2020? (was November 2019, and previously 2018)

Posted on September 11, 2018 by stuartelden

Update: the Palgrave site now says January 2020 24 November 2019 – but they have missed several previous dates… Michel Foucault, Penal Theories and Institutions: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1971-1972 – Palgrave November 2018 “What characterizes the act of justice is not … Continue reading →

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