Category Archives: Books

Books received – Foucault in Actes and Revue Rodeo

Posted on March 25, 2015 by stuartelden

Three issues of the journal Actes – all relating to Foucault: Nos 24-25, 54 and 73; along with the issue of Revue Rodéo from 2013 which has the previously largely-unknown 1979 interview between Foucault and Farès Sassine. That interview, originally published in … Continue reading →

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Tom Sparrow, Plastic Bodies – with preface by Catherine Malabou – in print or open access e-book

Posted on March 24, 2015 by stuartelden

Tom Sparrow’s Plastic Bodies: Rebuilding Sensation After Phenomenology, with a preface by Catherine Malabou, is available in print or as an open access e-book (via Object-Orientated Philosophy). Sensation is a concept with a conflicted philosophical history. It has found as many allies as … Continue reading →

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Umberto Eco, How to Write a Thesis – reviewed in Times Higher Education

Posted on March 23, 2015 by stuartelden

As previously mentioned, Umberto Eco’s 1977 book How to Write a Thesis now out in translation from MIT Press – it is reviewed in The Times Higher Education by Robert Eaglestone – thanks to Dean Bond for the link. Here’s the concluding … Continue reading →

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Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou

Posted on March 22, 2015 by stuartelden

Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou, edited by Brenna Bhandar and Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller. Catherine Malabou’s concept of plasticity has influenced and inspired scholars from across disciplines. The contributors to Plastic Materialities—whose fields include political philosophy, critical legal studies, social … Continue reading →

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Second review of the Global Discourse review symposium on The Birth of Territory

Posted on March 20, 2015 by stuartelden

Global Discourse are hosting a review symposium on The Birth of Territory, which was joint winner of their inaugural book award. The second review, by Jeppe Strandsbjerg, is available here; and the first review by Jordan Branch (previously posted) is here. Both require subscription, … Continue reading →

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Being Social: Ontology, Law, Politics – first book from Counterpress

Posted on March 20, 2015 by stuartelden

Being Social: Ontology, Law, Politics, edited by Dan Matthews and Tara Mulqueen. Being Social brings together leading and emerging scholars on the question of sociality in poststructuralist thought. The essays collected in this volume examine a sense of the social which resists … Continue reading →

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Global Discourse book award review symposium on The Birth of Territory – first review by Jordan Branch

Posted on March 19, 2015 by stuartelden

Global Discourse are hosting a review symposium on The Birth of Territory, which was joint winner of their inaugural book award. The first review by Jordan Branch is available online – requires subscription, or email me. Update: the second review, by … Continue reading →

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The Uncollected Foucault – updates to texts needed; and to texts available

Posted on March 18, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ve been doing further work on ‘The Uncollected Foucault’ – which will hopefully become a short article as well as a resource here. I’ve made some updates to texts needed; and to texts available. The ones I still need are … Continue reading →

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Workshop at UNSW on The Birth of Territory and ‘Geopolitics, Geopower, Geometrics’

Posted on March 11, 2015 by stuartelden

My public lecture “Territory from Shakespeare to Geo-politics” at University of New South Wales earlier this week was recorded by ABC Radio ‘Big Ideas‘, and I’ll hopefully be able to post the link soon. Paul Patton gave a very generous introduction … Continue reading →

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Lisa Smirl – Spaces of Aid: How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism

Posted on March 11, 2015 by stuartelden

Lisa Smirl – Spaces of Aid: How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism. Aid workers commonly bemoan that the spaces and experiences of working in ‘the field’ often sit uneasily with the goals they’ve signed up to: from visiting project … Continue reading →

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