Author Archives: stuartelden

Saskia Sassen, ‘Expulsions: Complexity and Brutality’ – lectures at Durham, LSE and Dublin

Posted on May 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Saskia Sassen’s Expulsions is forthcoming in June 2014. Saskia Sassen, “Expulsions: Complexity and Brutality” – lecture at Durham University in February 2014 (via ANTHEM). Update: a lecture at the LSE on the same topic is available here (via The Anthropo.scene] And one … Continue reading →

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Reconstruction of the Machine from Franz Kafka’s In the Penal Colony

Posted on May 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
?  “However,” the Officer said, interrupting himself, “I’m chattering, and his apparatus stands here in front of us. As you see, it consists of three parts. With the passage of time certain popular names have been…

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Foucault Studies 17 now out – Foucault and Deleuze

Posted on April 30, 2014 by stuartelden

A special issue on Foucault and Deleuze, edited by Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail, Daniel W. Smith, and including essays by William Connolly and Dianna Taylor; plus unconnected articles and a large number of reviews.

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Recursions: a new book series in media & cultural theory

Posted on April 30, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Machinology:
We are proud to announce the launch of a new book series titled Recursions: Theories of Media, Materiality and Cultural Techniques. Placed with Amsterdam University Press, a publisher known for its strong track-record in film and…

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Seeing the secret state with Trevor Paglen

Posted on April 30, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on War Law Space:
Earlier this week I blogged about Trevor Paglen’s new work over at Intercept, and now Joseph Lee (via Gab Olah) send news of a talk Paglen gave at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin last…

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Three forthcoming papers (require subscription)

Posted on April 30, 2014 by stuartelden

New papers in Society and Space – discussing social movements, Kant’s Geography, and water in the city.

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Claire Colebrook, Death of the PostHuman: Essays on Extinction, Vol. 1 – pdf available online

Posted on April 30, 2014 by stuartelden

Claire Colebrook’s Death of the PostHuman: Essays on Extinction, Vol. 1 is available online and as downloadable pdf from Open Humanities Press – print version coming soon. Death of the PostHuman undertakes a series of critical encounters with the legacy of what … Continue reading →

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E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left

Posted on April 30, 2014 by stuartelden

  E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left: Essays and Polemics by E. P. Thompson; edited by Cal Winslow – out in June with Monthly Review Press. More details and endorsements at the site – here’s the blurb. E. P. Thompson … Continue reading →

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critical-theory.com’s five books that came out in April

Posted on April 30, 2014 by stuartelden

critical-theory.com‘s five books that came out in April – Agamben and Politics, Reasoning with Who we are, Making Money, The Imperial University and… Why are Animals Funny?

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Urban theory without an outside: Neil Brenner

Posted on April 30, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
This has been online for a few weeks, but now made time to watch it – a very helpful lecture by Neil Brenner outlining the work of the Harvard Urban Theory Lab and his edited collection Implosions/Explosions. This, and other … Continue reading →

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