Author Archives: stuartelden

More on the New College

Posted on June 7, 2011 by stuartelden

Birkbeck have issued a press release saying Grayling has resigned and that they are not providing facilities; Terry Eagleton calls it odious; the college is accused of copying syllabuses (shouldn’t that be syllabi?); in the same report we hear that Boris Johnston … Continue reading →

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New College for the Humanities

Posted on June 6, 2011 by stuartelden

A.C. Grayling’s proposed New College for the Humanities has a website here. For those who haven’t yet heard the news, it will charge £18,000 per year, have a list of 14 ‘star’ academics who will be involved in teaching to some … Continue reading →

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Collapse VII: Culinary Materialism

Posted on June 5, 2011 by stuartelden

Collapse VII: Culinary Materialism is now available for advance ordering, publication due July 1st. Details here. You can also download the intro free.

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The Foucault Effect conference

Posted on June 5, 2011 by stuartelden

The Foucault Effect 1991-2011 conference held over the last couple of days was very good. The room was packed for the opening session on Friday evening, and then a good audience throughout Saturday. The first session included Daniel Defert on … Continue reading →

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William Connolly workshop audio files

Posted on May 31, 2011 by stuartelden

The audio files of the conference on A World of Becoming held last week are now available here, including Connolly’s own closing lecture. My own talk is here, along with the powerpoint slides of the full quotes from Connolly’s book.

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Lefebvre on the State

Posted on May 31, 2011 by stuartelden

When we were putting together State, Space, World, Neil Brenner and I discussed many texts for inclusion. We couldn’t include everything, due to space considerations, and hopefully some of the texts that didn’t make that volume will be in a … Continue reading →

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Australian ERA journal ranking scrapped

Posted on May 31, 2011 by stuartelden

When I was out in Australia the journal rankings of their ERA system was regularly discussed. It had some strange category mistakes and extremely arbitrary elements, as well as being deeply problematic in general principle. But now the letter ranking … Continue reading →

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Colin Gordon on Foucault’s 70-71 lectures

Posted on May 29, 2011 by stuartelden

Colin Gordon, editor of Foucault’s Power/Knowledge and one of the editors of The Foucault Effect sent me these comments for posting: Stuart, Thanks for mentioning the event and agreeing to take part, and I agree with your comments on the new … Continue reading →

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Roundup

Posted on May 29, 2011 by stuartelden

Bryan Magee’s TV interviews on philosophy are now available on You Tube here (via Leiter Reports). These interviews were collected as The Great Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy which was one of the first books on philosophy I read, but … Continue reading →

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Justin Smith – Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life

Posted on May 27, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve been looking forward to Justin Smith’s Divine Machines book on Leibniz for a while. I previously mentioned it here in relation to Glenn Hartz’s book Leibniz’s Final System: Monads, Matter, Animals; and also provided a link when John Protevi interviewed Smith. … Continue reading →

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