Author Archives: stuartelden

Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 18

Posted on January 21, 2015 by stuartelden

The last major task of the first draft was a discussion of the final two Paris lecture courses, The Government of Self and Others and The Courage of Truth. The first of these courses provides the basis for the October-November … Continue reading →

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Geografias Malditas: Corpos, Sexualidades e Espaços reviewed by Jan Hutta and Maria Rodó-de-Zárate

Posted on January 21, 2015 by stuartelden

Two reviews of the Geografias Malditas collection on the Society and Space open site.

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Power and Space in the City Conversation #1 – Powerful Urban Territories (video of UCL discussion)

Posted on January 21, 2015 by stuartelden

Power and Space in the City Conversation #1 – Powerful Urban Territories. The video of a UCL discussion from late last year is now available. The panellists are me, Allan Cochrane and Wendy Pullan, and it is introduced by Liza … Continue reading →

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Marijn Nieuwenhuis, A Right to Breathe

Posted on January 21, 2015 by stuartelden

Marijn Nieuwenhuis, ‘A Right to Breathe’ at Critical Legal Thinking.

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Books received – Rancière Now, Badiou, Burke, Bourdieu, TCS and An Introduction to Political Geography

Posted on January 21, 2015 by stuartelden

Four books from Polity in recompense for review work; the new issue of TCS; and the second edition of An Introduction to Political Geography, which I endorsed.

Posted in Alain Badiou, Books, Jacques Rancière, Pierre Bourdieu, Theory, Culture and Society | 1 Comment

Todd May reviews Michel Foucault, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling at NDPR

Posted on January 20, 2015 by stuartelden

Todd May reviews Michel Foucault’s 1981 Louvain lectures, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice, at NDPR. You can read my take on those lectures, and On the Government of the Living, at Berfrois.

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Günter Figal resigns as Heidegger Society Chair over the content of the Black Notebooks

Posted on January 19, 2015 by stuartelden

Günter Figal resigns as Heidegger Society Chair over the content of the Black Notebooks. Daily Nous has the story – thanks to Graham Harman for the link. I admit to being puzzled by this – Figal took up the chair in … Continue reading →

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Étienne Balibar: Three words for the dead and the living

Posted on January 19, 2015 by stuartelden

The Verso blog has the English translation of Étienne Balibar’s “Three words for the dead and the living“, originally published in Libération.

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Mary Beard on ‘How to Write’

Posted on January 19, 2015 by stuartelden

in her TLS column, classicist Mary Beard discusses ‘How to write‘. Other than the updates on the Foucault book, I’ve not written much about writing recently on this site. But I have done in the past – there is a … Continue reading →

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Kathleen E. Kennedy, Medieval Hackers – open access from Punctum books

Posted on January 19, 2015 by stuartelden

Medieval Hackers calls attention to the use of certain vocabulary terms in the Middle Ages and today: commonness, openness, and freedom. Today we associate this language with computer hackers, some of whom believe that information, from literature to the code … Continue reading →

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