Author Archives: stuartelden

A few recently received books received – Sibylle Lacan’s book about her father, Jean-Paul Aron, Les modernes, Carceral Notebooks #12, Arun Iyer, Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures, and Jeannette Colombel’s book on Foucault. The Iyer was sent in recompense for review … Continue reading →

Dan Webb, Critical Urban Theory, Common Property, and “the Political”: Desire and Drive in the City Dan Webb explores an undervalued topic in the formal discipline of Political Theory (and political science, more broadly): the urban as a level of … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Dr Charlotte Mathieson:
This post is a follow-up of resources for those who attended The Voice of the Academic: Vocal Training for Academic Success at the University of Surrey on 22nd September, although the links may also…

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Alas, behind a paywall, but John Gray goes through a tremendous number of his works—if he’s read all listed, he might be one of the few to get through all of…

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Call for Papers: “Anxious/Desiring geographies.” AAG Annual Conference New Orleans April 10-14, 2018 Organizers: Jeremy W. Crampton (Kentucky, USA), Nick Robinson (RHUL, UK), Mikko Joronen (Tampere, Finland). At this political moment we seem beset by…

Rob Weatherill, The Anti-Oedipus Complex: Lacan, Critical Theory and Postmodernism – now out with Routledge. Thanks to Sebastian Budgen for the link. The Anti-Oedipus Complex critically explores the post-‘68 dramatic developments in Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis and cultural theory. Beginning with the … Continue reading →

Shahar Hameiri, Caroline Hughes, and Fabio Scarpello, International Intervention and Local Politics: Fragmented States and the Politics of Scale, now out with Cambridge University Press. International peace- and state-building interventions have become ubiquitous in international politics since the 1990s, aiming to tackle the … Continue reading →