Author Archives: stuartelden

Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle – new, annotated translation online and forthcoming in print

Posted on March 15, 2014 by stuartelden

Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle Newly translated and annotated by Ken Knabb Bureau of Public Secrets, 2014 ISBN 978-0-939682-06-5 150 pages. $15.00 The Society of the Spectacle, originally published in Paris in 1967, has been translated into more than … Continue reading →

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Rafael Khachaturian in Dissent on Althusser

Posted on March 14, 2014 by stuartelden

In Dissent, Rafael Khachaturian examines Althusser’s legacy.

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Semiotext(e) – Whitney publications

Posted on March 14, 2014 by stuartelden

Semiotexte has produced twenty-eight pamphlets as part of its contribution to the Whitney Biennial by philosophers, writers and critics associated with the press. The series includes new, commissioned works by Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Veronica Gonzalez-Peña, Sergio Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Gary Indiana, John … Continue reading →

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The Malaysian Airlines tragedy and South China Sea geopolitics

Posted on March 13, 2014 by stuartelden

A good piece by Phil Steinberg on the wider geopolitical issues around the missing Malaysian Airlines plane.

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The Common Place reviewed by Andrés Núñez

Posted on March 13, 2014 by stuartelden

A new review at the Society and Space open site.

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Transnational Affects conference at Queen Mary, May 2014

Posted on March 13, 2014 by stuartelden

Transnational Affects – Queen Mary, University of London, Wednesday 21st May 2014, 9:30-18:00 Mile End campus, Arts One building, Arts Lecture Theatre An AHRC International Symposium co-hosted by the Centre for the History of Emotions, Queen Mary, University of London and the Gender … Continue reading →

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Books received (4 of 4)

Posted on March 11, 2014 by stuartelden

New issues of journals – TCS, RIPE, Geographica Helvetica, RIS, The Professional Geographer, Society and Space, Annals of the AAG, and British Academy Review.

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Books received (3 of 4)

Posted on March 11, 2014 by stuartelden

Quentin Meillassoux, Métaphysique et fiction des mondes hors-science Michel Foucault, L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi (French critical edition of 1980 lectures long available in English) Grégoire Chamayou, Les Corps vils. Expérimenter sur les êtres humains aux XVIIIe siècle et XIXe siècle – a reissue of his first … Continue reading →

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Books received (2 of 4)

Posted on March 11, 2014 by stuartelden

Henry Reynolds, The Law of the Land (a gift from Jean Hillier – a good starting point for the issue of indigenous land rights in Australia, read on the plane home) Nikos Papastergiadis, Ambient Perspectives Nikos Papastergiadis, Cornelius Castoriadis – this and the … Continue reading →

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Books received (1 of 4)

Posted on March 11, 2014 by stuartelden

As I’ve been away for eight weeks, there was a small mountain of post waiting me in the office. This is the first of four posts listing what arrived. a new copy of Heidegger’s Basic Writings. My old copy is falling … Continue reading →

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