Author Archives: stuartelden

Books received – White on Genet and Voeltzel, Vingt ans et après

Posted on December 10, 2014 by stuartelden

Edmund White’s biography of Genet, and Thierry Voeltzel, Vingt ans et après – a collection of dialogues with (an anonymous) Foucault (see Foucault News for details).

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Luce Irigaray Circle Conference: Topologies of Sexual Difference – Melbourne – 10-12 Dec 2014

Posted on December 9, 2014 by stuartelden

Luce Irigaray Circle Conference, Melbourne, Australia, Wednesday 10 to Friday 12 December 2014 The Communication, Politics and Culture Research Centre at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, with the support of the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, will host an … Continue reading →

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Foucault audio and video recordings – a chronological list with links

Posted on December 9, 2014 by stuartelden

Last year I listed all the Foucault audio recordings I could find online. I’ve now updated the list, and reordered them chronologically. These are now all listed on this page (as part of the ‘Foucault Resources‘ part of this site). There … Continue reading →

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Richard Polt and Gregory Fried in conversation with Thomas Sheehan about Heidegger

Posted on December 9, 2014 by stuartelden

Richard Polt and Gregory Fried in conversation with Thomas Sheehan at 3am (via Enowning). The discussion is around the reading proposed in Sheehan’s new book, but it also touches on Heidegger’s politics and the revelations of the ‘black notebooks’.

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on December 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Statements by UCU, VC, Staff, Amnesty International and petitions about Warwick events on December 3 2014 The 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2014 How much censorship has there been in Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe? Critical Theory gifts for Christmas Last lecture … Continue reading →

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Heidegger’s fountain pens

Posted on December 6, 2014 by stuartelden

A discussion of the pens on Heidegger’s desk – via Enowning. I’d say it’s what he wrote with them that’s important, except that pens do find their way into his philosophy as examples of tools.  

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Saskia Sassen’s Father and Eichmann

Posted on December 6, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
An interesting and previously unknown story to me about the sociologist and urban theorist’s links, through her father, to Eichmann’s post-war life in Argentina. (She had left discussions of this out of her…

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Critical Theory gifts for Christmas

Posted on December 6, 2014 by stuartelden

Some of these are inspired – Critical Theory gifts for Christmas (I think a few are recycled from last year, but no matter). Perhaps you want a Noam Chomsky candle, or a ‘Nietzsche drink koozy’…      

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Neil Brenner, ‘Urban Governance – But at What Scale?’ – video from Urban Age Governing Urban Futures conference

Posted on December 6, 2014 by stuartelden

Neil Brenner, ‘Urban Governance – But at What Scale?’, Urban Age Governing Urban Futures conference, Delhi (via Multipliciudades).

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Politics, infrastructure and representation: The case of Jerusalem’s Light Rail

Posted on December 6, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve written briefly about the Jerusalem Light Rail before. There is a very interesting article by Amina Nolte and Haim Yacobi, ‘Politics, infrastructure and representation: The case of Jerusalem’s Light Rail‘, in Cities (requires subscription) which discusses the politics and geographies of this in some … Continue reading →

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