Author Archives: stuartelden

Foucault – links to difficult-to-find short texts, and some requests for help

Posted on February 1, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ve previously posted some requests for help in locating some difficult-to-find short texts by Foucault, and thanks to readers of this site have received copies of some of these. I’ve updated the requests for help page, along with a few more requests. … Continue reading →

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on February 1, 2015 by stuartelden

Neoliberalism + Biopolitics – Conference at Berkeley, 27-28 Feb 2015 – with Balibar, Brown, Harcourt, Mbembe… The Birth of Territory reviewed in Theory, Culture and Society “Europe After The Minotaur”: free e-book from the new Finance Minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis Giorgio Agamben … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s The Punitive Society – forthcoming in English in June 2015

Posted on February 1, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s 1973 lectures On The Punitive Society are forthcoming in English in June August 2015. I have a review of the French text at Berfrois (open access); and a review essay forthcoming in Historical Materialism (preprint here). These thirteen lectures on the ‘punitive … Continue reading →

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Books on Lefebvre in English – why are six of ten with Routledge?

Posted on February 1, 2015 by stuartelden

By my count, there are ten eleven books on Henri Lefebvre in English. Six of these are with Routledge – Shields, Merrifield, Goonewardena et. al., Butler, Middleton and Coleman – and four five with other publishers – Burkhard, Elden, Fraser, Stanek [and Stanek et. al.]. … Continue reading →

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Global Affairs – new journal with first issue open access

Posted on January 30, 2015 by stuartelden

Global Affairs – new journal from Routledge with first issue open access. Papers on EU foreign policy, Ukraine, Ebola, etc.

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Ebola photographs in The New York Times

Posted on January 30, 2015 by stuartelden

The New York Times has a small collection of photographs by Daniel Berehulak. Thanks to David Campbell (@davidc7) for the link. Much more to read on Ebola at the list on this site here.

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Grégoire Chamayou – A Theory of the Drone published and excerpt available

Posted on January 30, 2015 by stuartelden

The translation of Grégoire Chamayou’s A Theory of the Drone is now published. An excerpt is available open access at Asymptote. Derek Gregory discussed the original French version of this book extensively on his Geographical Imaginations site. You can read my … Continue reading →

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Neoliberalism + Biopolitics – Conference at Berkeley, 27-28 Feb 2015 – with Balibar, Brown, Harcourt, Mbembe…

Posted on January 29, 2015 by stuartelden

Neoliberalism + Biopolitics – Conference at Berkeley, 27-28 Feb 2015. Speakers include Étienne Balibar, Wendy Brown, Bernard Harcourt, and Achille Mbembe… Over the past two decades neoliberalism and biopolitics have emerged as essential terms for critical theorists of all stripes attempting to analyze ongoing … Continue reading →

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Ian Bogost on email in The Atlantic

Posted on January 29, 2015 by stuartelden

Ian Bogost discusses the problems of email in The Atlantic. Email is the worst, but some emails are worse than others. The worst emails are forwards. And the worst forwards? Not the jokes your uncle sends you from his AOL account, … Continue reading →

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Back in the Sattel(zeit) again

Posted on January 29, 2015 by stuartelden

A discussion of the legacy of Reinhart Koselleck.

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