Author Archives: stuartelden

Slavoj Žižek mini course at Birkbeck – Hegelian Battles

Posted on October 6, 2015 by stuartelden

Slavoj Žižek mini course at Birkbeck – Hegelian Battles. December 2-4, 2015. Free for students and Birkbeck staff, £10 per lecture for others. Everyone needs to register in advance. The battle for Hegel goes on – new interpretations are emerging … Continue reading →

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The challenge of saying ‘no’ to academic requests

Posted on October 5, 2015 by stuartelden

Last year Rob Kitchin had a short post on his blog ‘The View from the Blue House’: Over the past couple of years I’ve been getting more and more invites to do work that extends beyond my usual day to day … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault, Brown, Golder, Ashgate, etc.

Posted on October 5, 2015 by stuartelden

A pile of recently bought, earned or complimentary books: Foucault’s The Punitive Society, Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos, Ben Golder’s Foucault and the Politics of Rights, four books in recompense for review work for Ashgate, and recent issues of Theory, Culture & Society and Transactions … Continue reading →

Posted in Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Wendy Brown | 1 Comment

History and Theory special forum on Foucault and Neoliberalism

Posted on October 5, 2015 by stuartelden

History and Theory have a special forum on Foucault and Neoliberalism (requires subscription). Thanks to Timothy Johnson and others for the alert.

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The Question of the Human in Social Theory and Social Research – 25th November 2015, University of Warwick

Posted on October 5, 2015 by stuartelden

Posted on behalf of Mark Carrigan: 25th November 2015, 11:00 to 17:00 WT0.05, University of Warwick This workshop and symposium will explore the, mostly implicit, conceptions of the human, humanity and human nature that underpin various contemporary conceptions of social life. … Continue reading →

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Cahiers marxistes-léninistes

Posted on October 5, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on My Desiring-Machines:
Selections from the journal (published by Althusser’s students) are available here. (Thanks to Rethinking Marxism‘s Facebook feed for the link)

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on October 4, 2015 by stuartelden

The busiest week on the blog for a while, mainly due to the first two of these posts: Michel Foucault on refugees – a previously untranslated interview from 1979 Eleven thoughts on reading and citing 12 Critical Theory books that came out … Continue reading →

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Foucault: The Birth of Power Update 4 – collaborative work and a complete draft of Chapter One on the Lectures on the Will to Know and related materials

Posted on October 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Since the last update, I’ve been working on various aspects of this project. The first was a return to some of Foucault’s collaborative projects around CERFI. Quite late in the drafting of Foucault’s Last Decade I removed most of the … Continue reading →

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Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Project and International Workshop Awards 2016

Posted on October 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
We’re pleased to announce the fourth year of the Antipode Foundation’s Scholar-Activist Project and International Workshop Awards. Scholar-Activist Project Awards are single-year grants of up to £10,000 intended to support collaborations between academics and students…

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Eleven thoughts on reading and citing

Posted on October 2, 2015 by stuartelden

At the beginning of reading on a topic, the most useful thing in a paper or book is often its bibliography. As you read more you’ll realise the key texts get cited again and again. You can tell you are … Continue reading →

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