Author Archives: stuartelden

Pléyade: Biopolitics Special Issue (2016)

Posted on September 12, 2016 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
New Issue of Pléyade: Biopolítica, number 17, launched in June 2016 Full PDF of issue available Pléyade is an international peer reviewed journal dedicated to the Humanities and Social Sciences funded the year 2008 by…

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8 Critical Theory books that came out in August 2016

Posted on September 8, 2016 by stuartelden

Another useful roundup from critical-theory

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Books received – Krell, Whyte, Minca & Giacarra, Bouzarovski

Posted on September 7, 2016 by stuartelden

Two books from SUNY Press in recompense for review work, the edited collection Hitler’s Geographies (in which I have a piece reprinted), Stefan Bouzarovski’s Retrofitting the City, sent by the publisher, and the most recent issues of Area, Radical Philosophy … Continue reading →

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Verso e-book sale – 90% off – and my five picks

Posted on September 2, 2016 by stuartelden

Verso have a massive e-book sale with 90% off a huge range of their books until the end of today (Friday 2 September 2016). You could pick up the new translation of Henri Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy for just £2, and all three volumes … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare productions in London and Stratford (late 2016-early 2017)

Posted on September 2, 2016 by stuartelden

An updated list of some of the productions I’m looking forward to seeing over the next few months… The Two Noble Kinsmen at the RSC. Cymbeline ‘reclaimed and renamed’ as Imogen at the Globe King Lear – Antony Sher at the RSC and Glenda Jackson … Continue reading →

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Foucault: The Birth of Power cover and description (forthcoming early 2017)

Posted on September 1, 2016 by stuartelden

Here is the cover for Foucault: The Birth of Power. The book is forthcoming in early 2017 with Polity, and the design fits with Foucault’s Last Decade which came out earlier this year. There is a lot about Foucault’s political activism in … Continue reading →

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Stephen Graham, Vertical – forthcoming with Verso/Penguin

Posted on September 1, 2016 by stuartelden

Stephen Graham’s new book, Vertical: The City from Sateillites to Bunkers, is forthcoming with Verso/Penguin-Random House. From the penthouse to the sewers—the political geography of the vertical city Vertical is a brilliant re-imagining of the world we live in. Today we … Continue reading →

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Seven Things Every Scholarly Publisher Should Know about Researchers

Posted on September 1, 2016 by stuartelden

Some interesting reflections on what publishers should know about academics – a reversal of the more-common advice about what academics should know.

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Radical Philosophy 200 to be the final issue of current print edition of the journal

Posted on September 1, 2016 by stuartelden

The end of an era – from the Radical Philosophy website. Radical Philosophy 200 (November/December 2016) will be the final issue of the current print edition of the journal. Plans are under way to relaunch Radical Philosophy in a new … Continue reading →

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Deleuze seminars to be translated by Daniel Smith

Posted on September 1, 2016 by stuartelden

Deleuze seminars to be translated by Daniel Smith. Full report here (via Graham Harman). WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A Purdue University professor of philosophy has a received $175,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to translate the seminar … Continue reading →

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