Category Archives: Books

McKenzie Wark, Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene

Posted on February 25, 2015 by stuartelden

  Forthcoming from Verso in April: In Molecular Red, McKenzie Wark creates philosophical tools for the Anthropocene, our new planetary epoch, in which human and natural forces are so entwined that the future of one determines that of the other. Wark … Continue reading →

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Babette Babich – The Hallelujah Effect

Posted on February 25, 2015 by stuartelden

Babette Babich’s book The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology is now available at a much-discounted price. This book studies the working efficacy of Leonard Cohen’s song Hallelujah in the context of today’s network culture. Especially as recorded … Continue reading →

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Territory from Shakespeare to Geo-politics – abstract for my lecture at University of New South Wales

Posted on February 24, 2015 by stuartelden

Territory from Shakespeare to Geo-politics 10th March, 4pm, School of Humanities and Languages, University of New South Wales This lecture will introduce the work I have been doing on the question of territory over the past several years, leading to two … Continue reading →

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Simeon Wade (ed.) Chez Foucault – the 1978 fanzine with a 1976 interview with Foucault

Posted on February 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Back in December I posted about an elusive publication which contained a 1976 discussion with Foucault which appeared in Chez Foucault, Los Angeles: Circabook, 1978, pp. 4-22. While this text is translated into French for Dits et écrits (online here), I wanted to find … Continue reading →

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Kluge and Negt, History and Obstinacy – English translation published

Posted on February 22, 2015 by stuartelden

I missed this at the end of last year, but the long-awaited English translation of Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt, History and Obstinacy has been published by Zone books. If Marx’s opus Capital provided the foundational account of the forces of production in all of … Continue reading →

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Foucault – Qu’est-ce que la critique? Suivie de La culture de soi – new book forthcoming

Posted on February 20, 2015 by stuartelden

Vrin are publishing a new collection of Foucault’s work – Qu’est-ce que la critique? Suivie de La culture de soi. This is two lectures – one from May 1978 and one from April 1983. The first was on Kant, and was published posthumously (and … Continue reading →

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Why I’m not writing or speaking about Heidegger’s Black Notebooks (except here)

Posted on February 19, 2015 by stuartelden

As many readers of this blog will know, I’ve been posting various bits of news about Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ over the past year or so. In that time I’ve been asked to speak on Heidegger at events in the UK … Continue reading →

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Martijn Konings, The Emotional Logic of Capitalism

Posted on February 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Now out, an intriguing new book on capitalism – Martijn Konings, The Emotional Logic of Capitalism. The capitalist market, progressives bemoan, is a cold monster: it disrupts social bonds, erodes emotional attachments, and imposes an abstract utilitarian rationality. But what if … Continue reading →

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Matthew Hannah reviews The Birth of Territory for The American Historical Review

Posted on February 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Matthew Hannah reviews The Birth of Territory for The American Historical Review (requires subscription). There are some quite sharp criticisms, but the overall take is fairly positive. I resisted attempts to tie periods where the historical record is patchy into … Continue reading →

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Posters and further details for UNSW lecture and workshop

Posted on February 18, 2015 by stuartelden

10 March, 4pm, “Territory from Shakespeare to Geo-politics”, School of Humanities and Languages, John Goodsell 221/223, University of New South Wales (website; poster) 11 March, 10-4pm, “Geopolitics, Geopower, Geometrics”, workshop, Room 101 LAW Building, University of New South Wales (website; poster).

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