Author Archives: stuartelden

Warwick historians on the growing racism in the UK

Posted on January 3, 2017 by stuartelden

Warwick historians have written a powerful piece about the growing racism in the UK at Open Democracy. We historians at the University of Warwick are very concerned about the racism that is becoming increasingly commonplace over Britain, especially in the aftermath of the … Continue reading →

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Eyal Weizman, Forensic Architecture – forthcoming from Zone

Posted on January 3, 2017 by stuartelden

Eyal Weizman, Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability – forthcoming from Zone. This builds on the work of his Forensic Architecture research agency at Goldsmiths. In recent years, a little-known research group named Forensic Architecture began using novel research … Continue reading →

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New Perspectives 24.02 out now – including open access tribute to Alex Danchev

Posted on January 3, 2017 by stuartelden

New Perspectives Vol 24 No 2 is now out. It includes a wonderful tribute to Alex Danchev by Roland Bleiker. – our subscribers have access to the full contents of the journal, which are listed and linked-to here. However, we … Continue reading →

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Intervention Symposium – “Did We Accomplish the Revolution in Geographic Thought?”

Posted on January 3, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
44 years ago we published David Harvey’s essay “Revolutionary and Counter-Revolutionary Theory in Geography and the Problem of Ghetto Formation”. Taking geographers to task, demanding some serious self-criticism, it was subject to its fair share of discussion…

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Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History – David Harvey video lectures

Posted on January 3, 2017 by stuartelden

Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History A Series of Six Video Lectures in Political Economy by David Harvey CAPITAL AS VALUE IN MOTION VALUE AND ANTI-VALUE VALUE AND ITS MONETARY EXPRESSION THE SPACE AND TIME OF VALUE … Continue reading →

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Foucault, Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives (2016)

Posted on January 3, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives By Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault Edited by Nancy Luxon Translated by Thomas Scott-Railton University of Minnesota Press | 344 pages | January 2017 ISBN 978-0-8166-9534-8 |…

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Most popular posts and pages in 2016

Posted on January 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Doreen Massey (1944-2016) – and the tributes here Foucault and Neoliberalism – a few thoughts in response to the Zamora piece in Jacobin (from 2014) Michel Foucault on refugees – a previously untranslated interview from 1979 (from 2015) Where to start with reading Peter Sloterdijk? (an updated … Continue reading →

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A year in review – talks, publications and writing, plus links to my ‘best-of’ lists

Posted on December 31, 2016 by stuartelden

I began 2016 with a lengthy manuscript on the 1969-75 period of Foucault’s work, partly developed from the large sections cut from the manuscript of Foucault’s Last Decade. The main task accomplished in the first part of this year was … Continue reading →

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Novels and biographies read in 2016

Posted on December 31, 2016 by stuartelden

Not all novels, and many more biographies in here then previous years, but these were the (mainly) non-work books I read in 2016. John Fowles, Daniel Martin  Mason Currey, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (non-fiction) Helga Schneider, Let Me Go: … Continue reading →

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An early Christmas present – an advance copy of Foucault: The Birth of Power

Posted on December 24, 2016 by stuartelden

Just before I head off on holiday, an advance copy of Foucault: The Birth of Power. The book will be available in the UK in January and a little later worldwide. There is a short post about it on the Polity … Continue reading →

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