Author Archives: stuartelden

A world map of submarine cables

Posted on November 26, 2013 by stuartelden

Interesting world map of submarine cables – can’t remember who alerted me to this, but thank you.

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Mitchell, Harcourt and Taussig on Occupy

Posted on November 26, 2013 by stuartelden

I previously mentioned that W.J.T. Mitchell, Bernard Harcourt and Michael Taussig discussed Occupy in Critical Inquiry. These essays have also been published in book form as Occupy: Three Essays in Disobedience. Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy … Continue reading →

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Books received – Macey, Roberts, Amoore, Barry, Dosse, Tel Quel Reader, TCS, JUCS

Posted on November 26, 2013 by stuartelden

Some older books ordered for the Foucault project – the Dosse has some important information on CERFI, there is a Foucault piece in The Tel Quel Reader; Andrew Barry’s Material Politics and Louise Amoore’s The Politics of Possibility sent by … Continue reading →

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Slavoj Žižek on Beethoven’s Ode to Joy and A Clockwork Orange and So On

Posted on November 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
A bit of the Pervert’s Guide to Ideology available on Youtube – the whole thing is interesting, but too long, somewhat repetitive and loses focus. http://youtu.be/GCigxByRcNo    Biblioklept View original post

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Everyday Utopias: Cooper reviews Gardiner

Posted on November 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Davina Cooper reviews Michael E. Gardiner’s Weak Messianism: Essays in Everyday Utopianism.

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Foucault’s Last Decade – fifth update

Posted on November 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Having put together rough drafts of chapters 1 and 2 (see previous update), I was now able to move to the real focus of the book. But there is no simple break, and even as I go onto these chapters there … Continue reading →

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Grégoire Chamayou – A Theory of the Drone forthcoming in English

Posted on November 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone is forthcoming in English translation with New Press, publication date of August 2014. It doesn’t appear on the press’s site, but is listed on various online bookstores (i.e. here). I’ve recently read the French … Continue reading →

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‘Reflections on Jacoby and All That’: An Unpublished Essay by E. P. Thompson

Posted on November 25, 2013 by stuartelden

History Workshop have made available a previously unpublished essay by E.P. Thompson here.

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Neil Brenner (ed.) Implosions/Explosions – sample pages available

Posted on November 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Sample pages for Neil Brenner’s collection, Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization are now available on the publisher’s website. In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required … Continue reading →

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Derrida’s seminar on The Death Penalty – volume 1 published in English

Posted on November 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Volume 1 of Derrida’s 1999-2000 seminar on The Death Penalty has been published in English. In this newest installment in Chicago’s series of Jacques Derrida’s seminars, the renowned philosopher attempts one of his most ambitious goals: the first truly philosophical argument … Continue reading →

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