Author Archives: stuartelden

Latour’s obituary for Ulrich Beck

Posted on January 15, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Object-Oriented Philosophy:
And in ArtForum, of all places. You can find it HERE. (Hat tip, Nathan G.)

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‘Maurice Florence’ on Michel Foucault – the missing opening paragraph

Posted on January 14, 2015 by stuartelden

One of the things I’ve been doing with the Foucault’s Last Decade project is checking the original publication of texts in several instances, rather than relying on the reprints in Dits et écrits. Sometimes this is because the company Foucault … Continue reading →

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CFP Contested Spaces of Citizenship – Durham, 29 April 2015

Posted on January 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Postgraduate Conference: CONTESTED SPACES OF CITIZENSHIP Durham University, Department of Geography, 29 April 2015 Keynote speaker: Professor Engin F. Isin Space is at the core of political struggles and contestations. Brown (2010) highlights how borders and territory are, almost paradoxically, increasingly important … Continue reading →

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Ebola in Sierra Leone: News from the Frontline – Peter Penfold at African Arguments

Posted on January 14, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ve not been updating the Ebola reading list much recently, but this is an interesting piece on ‘Ebola in Sierra Leone‘ by Peter Penfold, former British High Commissioner to the country.

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Kathleen Biddick, Make and Let Die: Untimely Sovereignties – forthcoming from Punctum Books

Posted on January 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Kathleen Biddick’s Make and Let Die: Untimely Sovereignties is forthcoming from Punctum Books. This collection of essays by one of medieval studies’ most brilliant and prescient historians argues that the analysis and critique of biopower, as conventionally defined by Michel Foucault … Continue reading →

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Little plastic bodies

Posted on January 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Singular Things:
Stuart Elden is a professor of geography and political theory at Warwick University (UK) and Monash University (Australia). His fearsome appetite for hard books is charted at his blog Progressive Geographies*, which also includes all…

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Neoliberal Dogma? Revisiting Foucault on Social Security, Healthcare, and Autonomy (Pt. I of II)

Posted on January 12, 2015 by stuartelden

Another contribution to the ‘Foucault and neoliberalism’ debate.

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Media Practices and Urban Politics: A Conversation about Slow Theory

Posted on January 12, 2015 by stuartelden

A conversation at the Society and Space open site, with the relevant paper in the journal open access for a month.

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Books received – Latour, Douzinas, Roudinesco, McNay, Ricoeur, Leibniz, Western Sexuality and The Final Foucault

Posted on January 12, 2015 by stuartelden

Six books from Polity in recompense for review work; second-hand copies of Western Sexuality and The Final Foucault; and the new issues of Society and Space and RIPE.

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on January 11, 2015 by stuartelden

2014 in review – talks, publications and writing Foucault and Neoliberalism – a few thoughts in response to the Zamora piece in Jacobin Foucault on Parrhesia – translation of a 1982 lecture forthcoming in Critical Inquiry Political Geography forum on … Continue reading →

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