Category Archives: Books

#AAG2015 in Chicago – a few final thoughts

Posted on April 25, 2015 by stuartelden

Very enjoyable conference in Chicago over the last several days. I’ve said a bit about the two sessions I spoke in – on Ebola and terrain – before. It was a good conference, with some excellent papers. A particular highlight was … Continue reading →

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Althusser et. al. – Reading Capital: The Complete Edition forthcoming from Verso

Posted on April 25, 2015 by stuartelden

It’s only taken fifty years, but Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey, and Jacques Rancière’s Reading Capital: The Complete Edition is forthcoming from Verso. Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, which sought to reconstruct Western Marxism … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 21: a second book on The Birth of Power

Posted on April 23, 2015 by stuartelden

There have been some major changes to the project since the last update. I’ve held back this post until the situation was clearer. When I initially proposed the Foucault’s Last Decade book to Polity, it was to have an opening … Continue reading →

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Books received – Peck and Theodore, Mauriac, Krell, Drischler

Posted on April 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Books received – Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore’s Fast Policy in recompense for review work; another volume of Claude Mauriac’s memoirs for the Foucault project; David Farrell Krell’s Phantoms of the Other to review; and two papers on Leibniz sent by … Continue reading →

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Steve Mentz (ed.) Oceanic New York – forthcoming from Punctum

Posted on April 16, 2015 by stuartelden

Steve Mentz’s collection Oceanic New York is forthcoming from Punctum. This volume comprises a three-fold object, Book and Ocean and New York City. If this Book were Ocean, how would it feel between your fingers? Wet and slippery, just a bit … Continue reading →

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Charlotte Epstein on The Birth of Territory at Progress in Political Economy

Posted on April 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Progress in Political Economy have posted one of the papers on my book The Birth of Territory from a workshop in Sydney. My thanks to Charlotte Epstein for the thoughtful engagement, and Adam David Morton at PPE for posting this. Last month … Continue reading →

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Books received – Connolly, Rickels, Sartre, Casey

Posted on April 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Some more books from UMP – older books by Connolly, Rickels, Sartre and Casey.

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Books received – GIA, Derrida, Vora, Lorimer, le Doeuff, Braver, Transactions

Posted on April 8, 2015 by stuartelden

  Publications by the Groupe Information Asiles and Groupe Information Santé; Derrida’s Cinders, Vora’s Life Support, Lorimer’s Wildlife in the Anthropocene, le Doeuff’s Hipparchia’s Choice; Braver’s Heidegger; and the new issue of Transactions. The UMP books and the Braver are … Continue reading →

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Books received – journals, Foucault-related books, and New Geographies 06

Posted on March 31, 2015 by stuartelden

The last of the books and journals received while I was away in Melbourne. Liberté, Libertés is a collection by Robert Badinter with a preface by François Mitterand. Foucault discusses this in a 1977 interview which was published shortly after his death (and … Continue reading →

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The Uncollected Foucault – further updates to texts available and requests

Posted on March 27, 2015 by stuartelden

This site’s list of Foucault’s uncollected notes, lectures and interviews has been updated again. One which took a bit of locating was a text supposedly under the title ‘Pour la défense libre’, prepared in late 1979 for a 1980 meeting of lawyers.  The … Continue reading →

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