Author Archives: stuartelden

What would Shakespeare do about Europe’s migrants?

Posted on November 12, 2015 by stuartelden

“What would Shakespeare do about Europe’s migrants?” in The Economist. FOR months Sir Ian McKellen has been treating various audiences (including Marc Maron, a comedian and podcast host, and the Savannah Film Festival) to a monologue from a minor Elizabethan play entitled “Sir Thomas More”. … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory reviewed in The Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies by Whanyung Kim

Posted on November 11, 2015 by stuartelden

There is a a review essay on The Birth of Territory in The Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies by Whanyung Kim. This a journal of the Northeast Asian History Network, but the review is in English and is open access … Continue reading →

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Verso – Space and Power: Celebrating the life of Edward Soja (1940-2015)

Posted on November 11, 2015 by stuartelden

Verso have published an online extract from Ed Soja’s Postmodern Geographies: the Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory, on the production of space and power in Los Angeles.

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Michel Foucault, la politique comme guerre continuée. De la guerre des races au racisme d’État, Sur le Cours au Collège de France, “Il faut défendre la société” (2015)

Posted on November 11, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Richard Groulx, Michel Foucault, la politique comme guerre continuée. De la guerre des races au racisme d’État, Sur le Cours au Collège de France, “Il faut défendre la société”, Paris: Editions l’Harmattan, 2015. La guerre…

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Several Essays on Deleuze at LARB

Posted on November 11, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on My Desiring-Machines:
Several essays  commemorating the twentieth anniversary of Deleuze’s death are currently up on the front page of LARB, but here are individual links: Gilles Deleuze: The Event of Life by Brad Evans What Is Becoming…

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The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze conference — final schedule

Posted on November 11, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on My Desiring-Machines:
The final schedule for the conference at Purdue this weekend has been posted. Not only am I going, but I’ve found myself moderating a panel on which Marcelo Hoffman and Marco Altamirano will be presenting.…

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Books received – Shakespeare, Capitalism in the Web of Life and Fossil Capital

Posted on November 10, 2015 by stuartelden

Two re-editions from the Penguin Shakespeare and two books sent by Verso – Jason W. Moore’s Capitalism in the Web of Life and Andreas Malm’s Fossil Capital.

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Foucault’s Collaborative Projects – seminar at LSE, November 10th, 4.30pm

Posted on November 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Tomorrow I will be giving a talk entitled “Foucault’s Collaborative Projects: Hospitals, Habitat, and Public Infrastructure” to the Cities, Space and Development seminar series of the Department of Geography & Environment, at the London School of Economics at 4.30pm. It will be held in … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade cover

Posted on November 9, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ve been waiting to share the cover of Foucault’s Last Decade until the Polity Press webpage was complete, but it is now up on Amazon, so here it is. It will form a pair with Foucault: The Birth of Power – this book … Continue reading →

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Derrida’s 1964-65 seminar ‘Heidegger: The Question of Being and History’ to appear in English in April 2016

Posted on November 9, 2015 by stuartelden

News of the next translation of the Derrida seminars – 1964-65’s Heidegger: The Question of Being and History, forthcoming in April 2016. After a bit of a delay it seems the seminars are on again – the second volume of La peine … Continue reading →

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