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RSC new season announced – Love’s Labour’s Lost and Won

Posted on February 6, 2014 by stuartelden

The RSC have announced the productions of their autumn/winter 2014-15 season. The plan, starting with Richard II last season, and continuing with the two parts of Henry IV and Two Gentlemen of Verona this coming summer, is to produce all of Shakespeare’s plays … Continue reading →

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Patrick Dunleavy on choosing a better title for your article

Posted on February 6, 2014 by stuartelden

Some generally decent advice at the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog An informative title for an article or chapter maximizes the likelihood that your audience correctly remembers enough about your arguments to re-discover what they are looking for. Without … Continue reading →

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Giorgio Agamben – From the State of Control to a Praxis of Destituent Power

Posted on February 5, 2014 by stuartelden

Faced with absolute state control and the rapid eradication of political society, only a theory and praxis of destituent power can reclaim democracy. This is the transcript of a public lecture by Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben delivered to a packed … Continue reading →

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Simon Critchley and Philip Seymour Hoffman – video recording of discussion at Rubin Museum of Art

Posted on February 5, 2014 by stuartelden

In Memoriam: Philip Seymour Hoffman Just over a year ago philosopher Simon Critchley met with Philip Seymour Hoffman for the final in a series of on-stage conversations called Happy Talk. In a searching dialogue that in hindsight seems prescient, the … Continue reading →

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Authority & Political Technologies 2014 conference at Warwick – announcement and call for papers

Posted on February 4, 2014 by stuartelden

Authority & Political Technologies 2014                                                   Power in a World of Becoming, Entanglement & Attachment                           ‘In every era the attempt must be made anew to rescue tradition from a conformism … Continue reading →

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14,000 Images of the French Revolution Released Online

Posted on February 4, 2014 by stuartelden

An amazing collection of images at the French Revolution Digital Archive – a collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (via Hyperallergic – thanks to Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz and Sebastian Budgen for the link).

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Introducing: The b2 Review

Posted on February 4, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on boundary 2:
The print edition of b2 carries only article length reviews. We are starting an initiative to publish shorter reviews and notices of books, new and old, to which we want to draw our readers’ attention. We…

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Origins of Truth: Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know (2014)

Posted on February 4, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Origins of Truth: Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know February 21-22, 2014 Stony Brook Manhattan 387 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 A conference presented by The Foucault Society and the Department of Philosophy…

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Joanna Hodge reviews Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life

Posted on February 4, 2014 by stuartelden

Joanna Hodge reviews the recent biography of Walter Benjamin. Update: there is also a review in New Republic.

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The new/old international law (journal)

Posted on February 4, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on War Law Space:
Somehow I  missed the release of the new Oxford University Press London Review of International Law journal last September (Thanks Frédéric Mégret for the heads-up). I’m very excited about this and from the journals’ blurb here’s the…

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