Author Archives: stuartelden

Maps of Unrealized City Plans

Posted on August 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Wired has some very interesting images of city plans that were never put into practice. Thanks to Ben Rosamond for the link.

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Lisa Guenther, The Biopolitics of Starvation in California Prisons

Posted on August 2, 2013 by stuartelden

A powerful piece on the hunger strikes in Californian prisons – the first post in a planned open site forum on prisons today.

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Manifesto of the Groupe d’Information sur les prisons – a full translation

Posted on August 2, 2013 by stuartelden

This text was co-authored by Michel Foucault, Pierre Vidal-Nacquet and Jean-Marie Domenach, and was first read at a news conference on 8 February 1971. It was subsequently published in Esprit in March 1971. As far as I know, the only partial … Continue reading →

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The Groningen Lecture on Modes of Reasoning 2014

Posted on August 2, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve recently accepted an invitation to give the second Groningen Lecture on Modes of Reasoning. This is a series organised by Luis Lobo-Guerro as part of the History and Theory of International Relations chair group. Mick Dillon is giving the first of … Continue reading →

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Books received – including Foucault, Power, Truth, Strategy

Posted on August 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Five interesting books. Two are older books by authors whose other work I’ve liked – Badie and Birnbaum’s The Sociology of the State and Adriana Caverero, Relating Narratives – that I got for review work. I got hold of François … Continue reading →

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Misunderstanding Foucault — Foucault. Habermas, and the Debate that Never Was (Part III)

Posted on August 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Persistent Enlightenment:
My last post on the so-called “Foucault/Habermas Debate” focused on the eulogy JürgenHabermas wrote in the wake of Michel Foucault’s death. The main theoretical claim of the eulogy was that Foucault, the one-time critic of…

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Intertexuality and Structure in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666

Posted on August 1, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
•I had been reading William T. Vollmann’s enormous book Imperial. I bought the book in paperback and then put an illicit copy on my Kindle (this riff is not about the ethics of that move). It’s just…

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Althusser, On the Reproduction of Capitalism

Posted on July 31, 2013 by stuartelden

Verso have announced the publication of Althusser’s On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, for early 2014. What is perhaps Louis Althusser’s most famous text, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses,” published in 1970 and very influential ever since, … Continue reading →

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Grégoire Chamayou – books received

Posted on July 31, 2013 by stuartelden

Derek Gregory has discussed Grégoire Chamayou, Théorie du drone in four detailed posts on his Geographical Imaginations blog – here, here, here and here. On the strength of the first two of these I picked up a copy of this book and Chamayou’s … Continue reading →

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Derrida books received

Posted on July 31, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve done a couple of reviews for University of Chicago Press recently. I got most of the recent books I wanted for one review, and for the other filled in a few gaps in my Derrida shelf. His first seminar … Continue reading →

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