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Foucault’s Lectures on Subjectivity and Truth, X

Posted on June 25, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of 18th March, 1981 The same code of prohibitions and permissions in sexual ethics is present in the later Stoics and other Graeco-Roman thinkers of the first and second centuries as in the Christian thought…

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Books received – Avila, Axelos, Bleiker, Branch, Tribe

Posted on June 25, 2014 by stuartelden

A few books received – Kostas Axelos’s final two books; Keith Tribe’s classic Land, Labour and Economic Discourse; Eric Avila, The Folklore of the Freeway; Roland Bleiker’s Aesthetics and World Politics; Jordan Branch’s The Cartographic State – and a pile of … Continue reading →

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How Important Are Library Sales to the University Press? One Case Study

Posted on June 25, 2014 by stuartelden

Interesting thoughts (and data from University of Chicago Press) on book publishing and library sales.

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Metrics: An Addendum on RAE / REF

Posted on June 25, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
We have had overwhelming support from a wide range of academics for our paper on why metrics are inappropriate for assessing research quality (200+ as of June 22nd). However, some have also posed…

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Foucault’s Lectures on Subjectivity and Truth, IX

Posted on June 25, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of 11th March, 1981 Marriage was institutionalised as a public union by Greeks in pre-Roman Egypt (where there was a considerable Greek influence from Alexander the Great’s conquest and from the Macedonian-Greek dynasty of one…

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Kostas Axelos, On Marx and Heidegger – forthcoming with Meson Press, translated by Kenneth Mills and edited by Stuart Elden

Posted on June 24, 2014 by stuartelden

As I’ve mentioned here before, in recent months I’ve edited a translation, compiled the notes, and written an introduction for a forthcoming book. The publisher is Meson Press (a new publisher based at Lüneborg University) and their website is now available, so I’m able to … Continue reading →

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The Past, Present and Future of Drones in the U.S. – the al-Awlaki memo and an infographic

Posted on June 24, 2014 by stuartelden

Thanks to Philippe Theophanidis for alerting me that the official government memo that was used in the targeting and killing of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki has just been released, and for pointing to the analysis at NPR. This makes this infographic, recently sent … Continue reading →

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Interview with Simon Critchley and excerpt from The Hamlet Doctrine in Berfrois

Posted on June 24, 2014 by stuartelden

Interview with Simon Critchley at Berfrois, plus an excerpt from his co-authored book The Hamlet Doctrine – via the Verso blog.

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Pratt reviews McDowell’s Working Lives

Posted on June 24, 2014 by stuartelden

Gerry Pratt reviews Linda McDowell’s new book on the Society and Space open site.

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Srinivasan and Kasturirangan commentary – ‘Impact and the Social Science Imagination’

Posted on June 24, 2014 by stuartelden

A commentary on the impact agenda in Higher Education on the Society and Space open site.

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