Category Archives: Books

Radio Benjamin – Walter Benjamin’s radio transcripts

Posted on October 31, 2014 by stuartelden

Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to ’33, he wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts using the new medium … Continue reading →

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New issue of Dialogues in Human Geography – forum on The Birth of Territory and discussion of John Agnew’s AAG lecture

Posted on October 30, 2014 by stuartelden

The new issue of Dialogues in Human Geography contains two short pieces by me. The first is in the discussion forum of John Agnew’s Dialogues in Human Geography lecture from the AAG earlier this year. As well as John’s lecture it contains … Continue reading →

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Books received – Derrida/Roudinesco, Nichols, Brennan, Neocleous, Shell, Society and Space

Posted on October 29, 2014 by stuartelden

In all that packaging were four books from Stanford University Press in recompense for review work – Derrida/Roudinesco, For What Tomorrow… ; Timothy Brennan, Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel and the Colonies; Robert Nichols, The World of Freedom: Heidegger, Foucault, and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jacques Derrida, Mark Neocleous, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Society and Space | 1 Comment

Is this much packaging really necessary?

Posted on October 29, 2014 by stuartelden

Only four books in all this packaging…

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Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe and its English translations – two bibliographies

Posted on October 28, 2014 by stuartelden

Thomas Sheehan has provided a bibliography of ‘Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe and its English translations‘ in Continental Philosophy Review (requires subscription). Thanks to the Enowning blog for the link – the post there points to this free, online, bibliography which covers similar ground.

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CFP ‘Time Served: Discipline and Punish forty years on’ – 11-12 Sept 2015, The Galleries of Justice, Nottingham, UK

Posted on October 28, 2014 by stuartelden

Posted on behalf of Sophie Fuggle – a call for papers for a fascinating sounding Foucault conference next year, in an intriguing venue. I’ll be giving one of the plenary talks. Time Served: Discipline and Punish forty years on 11-12 … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Collaborative Projects – some updates

Posted on October 27, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve updated this blog’s page on Foucault’s Collaborative Projects. The page discusses Généalogie du capital; Généalogie des équipements de normalisation; Les machines à guérir; Politiques de l’habitat and Génealogie de la défense sociale en Belgique.

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“Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth”, University of Nottingham Centre for Critical Theory lecture, Nottingham Contemporary, 12 November 2014

Posted on October 22, 2014 by stuartelden

[Update: the video of the event is now available here.] On 12 November 2014, I’ll be giving a University of Nottingham Centre for Critical Theory lecture at Nottingham Contemporary gallery. The title is “Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth”, and I’ll be … Continue reading →

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Symposium on Mark Neocleous, War Power, Police Power – LSE, 20 November 2014

Posted on October 17, 2014 by stuartelden

Details of a book symposium on Mark Neocleous’s latest – War Power, Police Power.

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David Campbell, Politics without Principle – free 1993 book online

Posted on October 16, 2014 by stuartelden

David Campbell has made his 1993 book Politics without Principle: Sovereignty, Ethics and the Narratives of the Gulf War available online as a pdf. He says something about the book here.

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