Author Archives: stuartelden

Originally posted on Persistent Enlightenment:
Discussing Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish (or, to be more accurate, that portions of it that turn up in The Foucault Reader) in a seminar I taught this spring, I was struck, once again, by…

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of 28th January, 1981 Foucault distinguishes between the Graeco-Roman concept of aphrodisia, the Christian concept of flesh and the modern concept of sexuality. These are not three domains of distinct objects. They are three modes…

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
The Higher Education Funding Council for England are reviewing the idea of using metrics (or citation counts) in research assessment. We think using metrics to measure research quality is a terrible idea, and we’ll…

The Political Geographies of FIFA and World Cup football Ben Anderson, Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions – first chapter online Graham Harman’s Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political due out in October Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds – new book series edited … Continue reading →

This looks a really helpful resource for anyone interested in Laruelle. Thanks to Michael O’Rourke for the alert.

An interesting new project on mapping the Arctic.

New review at the Society and Space open site