Author Archives: stuartelden

Object Lessons: The hidden meaning of ordinary things, Wednesday 13th July, London

Posted on June 2, 2016 by stuartelden

Object Lessons: The hidden meaning of ordinary things, 6pm, Wednesday 13th July, Bloomsbury Publishing, 50 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP Where does a password end and an identity begin? Do our desires really go on holiday in a hotel? Does wearing … Continue reading →

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Reading Capital: The Complete Edition by Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey, and Jacques Rancière

Posted on June 2, 2016 by stuartelden

Reading Capital: The Complete Edition, by Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey, and Jacques Rancière, now published by Verso. A classic work of Marxist analysis, available unabridged for the first time Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, … Continue reading →

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Call for papers for The Body of War: Drones and Lone Wolves, University of Lancaster on 24-25 November 2016

Posted on June 2, 2016 by stuartelden

Call for papers for The Body of War: Drones and Lone Wolves,  University of Lancaster  on 24-25 November 2016.  This workshop is part of the ongoing States of Exceptions project (for Part I, see here). Derek Gregory will be giving … Continue reading →

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Lee Braver (ed.), Division III of Heidegger’s Being and Time: The Unanswered Question of Being reviewed at NDPR

Posted on June 2, 2016 by stuartelden

Lee Braver (ed.), Division III of Heidegger’s Being and Time: The Unanswered Question of Being is reviewed at NDPR by Sacha Golub. Here’s the book’s description: Heidegger’s Being and Time is one of the most influential and important books in the history of … Continue reading →

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Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Noam Chomsky about Greece

Posted on May 31, 2016 by stuartelden

Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Noam Chomsky about Greece (via Sociological Imagination).

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Global Empire: Excavating Israel – Eyal Weizman interview with Tariq Ali

Posted on May 31, 2016 by stuartelden

Tariq Ali talks to Eyal Weizman, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures Goldsmiths, University of London, about the pressure being applied by Israel on the White House and EU to illegalise the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) campaign. Global Empire: … Continue reading →

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Manuel DeLanda’s Assemblage Theory published

Posted on May 31, 2016 by stuartelden

Manuel DeLanda’s Assemblage Theory has been published in the Speculative Realism series at Edinburgh University Press. Clarifies and systematises the concepts and presuppositions behind the influential new field of assemblage theory Manuel DeLanda provides the first detailed overview of the … Continue reading →

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11 Critical Theory books that came out in May 2016

Posted on May 31, 2016 by stuartelden

Another roundup of recently published books at Critical Theory – including my own Foucault’s Last Decade, but also recent books by Rancière, Bidet, Weeks, Sloterdijk, Badiou….

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Derek Congram on “Digging for the Disappeared; Forensic Science After Atrocity” by Adam Rosenblatt

Posted on May 31, 2016 by stuartelden

Adam Rosenblatt’s book Digging for the Disappeared; Forensic Science after Atrocity is reviewed at the Society and Space open site.

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History in the making: Celebrating the work of Raphael Samuel – essays in HWJ open access

Posted on May 27, 2016 by stuartelden

From the Verso blog: Raphael Samuel was one of the most influential historians to come out of the New Left generation. A founding member of the History Workshop Journal which pioneered the “history from below” approach to historical scholarship, Samuel’s … Continue reading →

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