Author Archives: stuartelden

In December, Angela Davis delivered the annual Nicos Poulantzas Memorial Lecture at the Nicos Poulantzas Institute in Athens. In the talk, Davis recounts the historical background to the development of the anti-racist, Marxist feminisms she calls “abolition feminism,” and unpacks some … Continue reading →

Forms of Living book series with Fordham University Press Edited by Stefanos Geroulanos, New York University, and Todd E. Meyers, New York University-Shanghai In the introduction to Knowledge of Life, Georges Canguilhem writes that knowledge and life do not assume a … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Paul Patton, Foucault on Power and Government Full text available on academia.edu Abstract: Foucault’s lectures in 1976 open with the statement of an intellectual crisis. They proceed to a series of questions about the nature…

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
‘Legal terrain—the political materiality of territory’ – my London Review of International Law lecture is now published. The journal requires subscription, but if you’d like a copy and can’t access through an institution, please email…

Martijn Konings, Capital and Time For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason – now out with Stanford University Press Critics of capitalist finance tend to focus on its speculative character. Our financial markets, they lament, encourage irresponsible bets on the … Continue reading →

On Kings by Marshall Sahlins & David Graeber (Hau Press, distributed University of Chicago Press, 2017, 534 pp.) is available as open access pdf in this link; physical copy to buy here. In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of … Continue reading →