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Why you should double-check references…

Posted on July 13, 2017 by stuartelden

I have long made a point of trying to avoid references of the form ‘X cited in Y’ (see Eleven Thoughts on Reading and Citing), at least without first checking source X. Having spent quite a bit of time recently … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, ‘Homère, les récits, l’éducation, les discours’ edited by Martin Rueff in NRF (and a question)

Posted on July 11, 2017 by stuartelden

Another piece of Foucault from the archive was published last year – Michel Foucault, ‘Homère, les récits, l’éducation, les discours‘ edited by Martin Rueff in NRF. Apparently these notes date from the drafting of The Archaeology of Knowledge. I’ve ordered a copy … Continue reading →

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La force du vrai. De Foucault à Austin (2017)

Posted on July 7, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Daniele Lorenzini, La force du vrai. De Foucault à Austin Le bord de l’eau Format 13×20 cm – 156 p. – 20 € Isbn 9782356875310 Collection « diagnostics » dirigee par Fabienne brugere & Guillaume…

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David Harvey, Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason – forthcoming in August

Posted on July 7, 2017 by stuartelden

David Harvey, Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason forthcoming in August Marx’s Capital is one of the most important texts of the modern era. The three volumes, published between 1867 and 1883, changed the destiny of countries, politics … Continue reading →

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Work for the summer – Shakespeare, Canguilhem and Foucault

Posted on July 7, 2017 by stuartelden

My last talk of the 2016-17 academic year was in Stockholm at the Nordic Geographers Meeting. This academic year, despite saying ‘no’ quite a lot, I gave twenty visiting talks, in seven different countries (UK, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, … Continue reading →

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A long overdue translation of Ernst Jünger’s Der Arbeiter – forthcoming in November 2017

Posted on July 5, 2017 by stuartelden

A long overdue translation of Ernst Jünger’s Der Arbeiter as The Worker: Dominion and Form is forthcoming in November 2017, edited by Laurence Paul Hemming and translated by Hemming and Bogdan Costea. Written in 1932, just before the fall of … Continue reading →

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Rob Kitchin – Balancing and redistributing ‘additional’ academic work

Posted on July 5, 2017 by stuartelden

Rob Kitchin has a very good piece on ‘Balancing and redistributing ‘additional’ academic work‘ at his The View from the Blue House blog. Beginning with an absolutely terrifying list of requests to review, examine, interview, contribute etc. (and I thought I … Continue reading →

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Amitava Kumar and V.S. Naipal – Rules for Writing

Posted on July 5, 2017 by stuartelden

Amitava Kumar has an interesting piece on 10 Rules for Writing, which includes V.S. Naipaul’s ‘Rules for Beginners’. As with any of the things I share on ‘advice’, these are of course only suggestions, and different people work in different … Continue reading →

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A copy of Foucault and Rocher’s translation of Viktor von Weizsäcker’s Der Gestaltkreis

Posted on July 4, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ve been looking for a copy of Foucault and Daniel Rocher’s translation of Viktor von Weizsäcker’s Der Gestaltkreis as Le Cycle de la Structure for sometime, and now have a copy. While the German text is widely available, the translation was … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory – now available in Chinese translation

Posted on July 3, 2017 by stuartelden

My 2013 book The Birth of Territory is now available in Chinese translation. It can be ordered here.  

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