Author Archives: stuartelden

A mobile life – tribute to John Urry at TCS blog

Posted on April 14, 2016 by stuartelden

Peter Adey has a very good tribute to John Urry at the Theory, Culture & Society blog.

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 13: Another (final?) trip to the Bibliothèque Nationale archive

Posted on April 11, 2016 by stuartelden

While waiting for the reader reports on Foucault: The Birth of Power I have been almost exclusively working on Shakespeare. That project is taking shape, and I’ve been developing conference and seminar papers into more polished prose, with fuller notes … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault, Shakespeare, Alio, Farge, Spriet

Posted on April 10, 2016 by stuartelden

Some recent books bought – most for the Shakespeare work, but a few Foucault-related. Eliane Alio worked with Foucault at the Collège de France, and was an assistant on the book he wrote with Arlette Farge. Foucault’s book with Farge … Continue reading →

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Film Review: ‘Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt’ (2015)

Posted on April 9, 2016 by stuartelden

Another review of the recent Hannah Arendt documentary, Vita Activa.

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David Beer, In defence of writing book reviews

Posted on April 9, 2016 by stuartelden

David Beer, ‘In defence of writing book reviews’ in The Times Higher Education. A very good piece, which makes a plea for the importance of this engagement. I know, as a former book review editor, how difficult it can be to … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory review essay in Tulsa Law Review by Bartholomew Sparrow

Posted on April 7, 2016 by stuartelden

A thoughtful and generous review essay of my 2013 book The Birth of Territory has just been published – “Territory Delimited“, Tulsa Law Review by Bartholomew Sparrow (open access). I was particularly pleased with these two general paragraphs, which follow a detailed survey of what the … Continue reading →

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Michael Naas on forms of life in Plato – audio recording

Posted on April 7, 2016 by stuartelden

Michael Naas on forms of life in Plato – audio recording from a talk at Memorial University of Newfoundland. A fascinating talk on bios and zoe throughout Plato’s work – which adds much needed nuance to the rather crude distinction Agamben … Continue reading →

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Review: In ‘Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt,’ a Thinker More Relevant Than Ever – The New York Times

Posted on April 6, 2016 by stuartelden

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
New documentary on Arendt reviewed in the NYT: In ‘Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt,’ a Thinker More Relevant Than Ever – The New York Times

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Peter Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason reissued by Verso

Posted on April 6, 2016 by stuartelden

Peter Sloterdijk’s first major work Critique of Cynical Reason, translated by Michael Eldred, has been reissued by Verso. When it was first published in West Germany, this book provoked both critical acclaim and widespread consternation, especially among the 1960s generation whose … Continue reading →

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Sara Ahmed interviews Judith Butler in Sexualities (open access)

Posted on April 5, 2016 by stuartelden

Sara Ahmed interviews Judith Butler in Sexualities (open access) – the interview is mainly about Gender Trouble.

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