Category Archives: Books

Talks at University of New South Wales on Territory, Shakespeare and Geopolitics in March

Posted on February 27, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ll be back in Sydney in a couple of weeks for two events. Please note the date of the second has changed. 10 March 2015, 4pm, “Territory from Shakespeare to Geo-politics”, School of Humanities and Languages, John Goodsell 221/223, University … Continue reading →

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‘Foucault’s Third Course on Governmentality’ – audio recording of University of Sydney lecture

Posted on February 27, 2015 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my lecture “Foucault’s Third Course on Governmentality”, at Department of Political Economy/Centre for International Security Studies (CISS), University of Sydney is available here. Thanks to Adam David Morton and his colleagues for the invitation and hosting this, and … Continue reading →

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Agir avec Henri Lefebvre: Altermarxiste? géographe radical? – new French collection

Posted on February 27, 2015 by stuartelden

Agir avec Henri Lefebvre: Altermarxiste? géographe radical? – new French collection, edited by Hugues Lethierry.  

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On my way to Sydney…talking this afternoon on “Foucault’s Third Course on Governmentality”

Posted on February 25, 2015 by stuartelden

On my way to Sydney…talking this afternoon on “Foucault’s Third Course on Governmentality”, 4pm Darlington Centre Boardroom, Department of Political Economy/Centre for International Security Studies (CISS), University of Sydney (website; poster)

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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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