Author Archives: stuartelden

Review essay on Foucault’s The Punitive Society published at Historical Materialism

Posted on December 8, 2015 by stuartelden

My review essay on Foucault’s La société punitive (now translated as The Punitive Society) has been published at Historical Materialism. The article requires subscription, but a preprint is here.

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Hegel and The Birth of Theory discussed at PMLA

Posted on December 8, 2015 by stuartelden

From the University of Chicago Press blog: The recently published May 2015 issue of PMLA included a special feature in its “Theories and Methodologies” section devoted to a number of wide-ranging commentaries by contemporary scholars on Andrew Cole’s The Birth of Theory. Cole’s book—readily endorsed … Continue reading →

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Giorgio Agamben, The Use of Bodies – available to pre-order

Posted on December 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Giorgio Agamben, The Use of Bodies – available to pre-order. Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer was one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. It was also the beginning of a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope, … Continue reading →

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Financial markets, algo-rhythms, and cities – Borch, Hansen and Lange

Posted on December 8, 2015 by stuartelden

A new companion piece to an article in Society and Space.

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Foucault: The Birth of Power update 8 – working at the IMEC archive and another visit to the Bibliothèque Nationale

Posted on December 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Since I returned from my last visit to Paris, I had one week back in England where I gave a couple of talks on Shakespeare. One was on ‘The Majesty and Territories of King John’ at UCL’s Institute of Advanced … Continue reading →

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Symposium Announcement: What Is the Urban? Registers of a World Interior

Posted on December 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on machines of urbanization:
Joseph Paxton, Great Victorian Way, 1855 Iowa State University, Center for Excellence in Arts and Humanities (CEAH) Symposium, April 4-5, 2016. Full details and free registration at http://www.whatistheurban.org) What Is the Urban? Registers of a World Interior…

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on December 6, 2015 by stuartelden

Digital Map of the Roman Empire Before and after peer-review in a diagram “Mourning becomes the law”—Judith Butler from Paris at the Verso website (no longer available; archived version here) Michel Foucault on refugees – a previously untranslated interview from 1979 Antipode Intervention on Lefebvre … Continue reading →

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Antipode Intervention on Lefebvre – “Towards a Metaphilosophy of the Urban” by Andy Merrifield

Posted on December 4, 2015 by stuartelden

Antipode Intervention – “Towards a Metaphilosophy of the Urban” by Andy Merrifield. This piece discusses Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy, forthcoming in English translation with Verso. I suspect I’m not the only one thrilled by the prospect of seeing Henri Lefebvre’s great philosophical tract, Métaphilosophie, … Continue reading →

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Video: David Harvey Interview: Life & Thought

Posted on December 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Interview: Life & Thought 30 July 2015 ENFF, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Lau Kin Chi and Sit Tsui Jade interviewed David Harvey about his childhood, his studies, his work on Marx’s Capital, and his involvement in social movements. via Video: David Harvey … Continue reading →

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How drones use algorithms to govern your life

Posted on December 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Open Geography:
How do drones use computational methods such as algorithms to govern your life? Here are ten ways. Many people think (non-military) drones are only used by hobbyists, and then only to fly small Go-Pro cameras around.…

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