Author Archives: stuartelden

400ppm: Exit Holocene, Enter Anthropocene

Posted on July 26, 2013 by stuartelden

Fascinating forum at the Society and Space open site on the passing of 400 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere.

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The Foucault/Habermas debate that never was

Posted on July 26, 2013 by stuartelden

James Schmidt has two very interesting posts about the Foucault/Habermas ‘debate that never was’ – part one and part two. Part One includes a letter from Foucault from late 1983. Part three is promised soon.

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Verso radical thinkers – brief introductory videos in The Guardian

Posted on July 26, 2013 by stuartelden

From the Verso blog: At the beginning of the year we published another twelve titles in our seventh edition of The Radical Thinkers series including works by Alain Badiou, Willhelm Reich, Max Horkheimer, Simon Critchley and Ludwig Feuerbach. A fortnightly series of events introducing this latest set was … Continue reading →

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Politics of Place issue 1 published

Posted on July 26, 2013 by stuartelden

Open access here – looks very nicely designed.

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Getting Somewhere: HEFCE Proposals on Open Access for a Post-2014 Research Excellence Framework

Posted on July 26, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
This week, the UK’s Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) published their formal proposals for including an open access requirement in any post-2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF). Responses to this will be…

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Two decisions in the translation of Lectures on the Will to Know

Posted on July 26, 2013 by stuartelden

Graham Burchell has provided another excellent translation of a Foucault lecture course – Lectures on the Will to Know. I worked on that course extensively in the French and have over the past few days spent a lot of time … Continue reading →

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Michael Dillon on The Courage of Truth

Posted on July 26, 2013 by stuartelden

The chair group on History and Theory of International Relations at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) is launching an annual Lecture series entitled ‘Modes of Reasoning’. The lectures are intended as a space for leading intellectuals to reflect on … Continue reading →

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Willing the impossible: an interview with Judith Butler

Posted on July 25, 2013 by stuartelden

At Open Democracy (via Maoquai)

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Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift 2013 Arts of the Political: New Openings For the Left, reviewed by Dave Featherstone

Posted on July 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Featherstone on Amin and Thrift.

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When did Foucault lecture on Nietzsche?

Posted on July 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Until recently, there were only two texts by Foucault explicitly on Nietzsche. 1. ‘Nietzsche, Freud, Marx’, Cahiers de Royaumont, VI, 1967, pp. 183-200. (The note in Dits et écrits says this was from a symposium at Royaumont in July 1964.) 2. ‘Nietzsche, … Continue reading →

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