Category Archives: Books

Verso’s Radical Thinkers series 8 out – first excerpt at critical-theory.com

Posted on January 10, 2014 by stuartelden

Series 8 of Verso’s Radical Thinkers is now out. I’ve just received my copy of Althusser’s The Spectre of Hegel. To celebrate, Critical-Theory will be releasing 8 free excerpts from Verso over the next few weeks from recently released series. … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lefebvre, Foucault, Agamben, animals, journals

Posted on January 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Lefebvre’s Dialectical Materialism (the 2009 edition with introduction by Stefan Kipfer); Lynne Huffer’s Mad for Foucault; Lynn Turner’s collection The Animal Question in Deconstruction; William Watkin’s Agamben and Indifference; Nicole Shukin’s Animal Capital; the new issue of RIPE; and the new … Continue reading →

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Winter 2014 Chicago Shorts – University of Chicago Press books

Posted on January 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Full details here – University of Chicago Press’s interesting project of making short books available electronically and, crucially, at very cheap prices (compare Palgrave Pivot…) Among the Winter Shorts, you’ll find: Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom: A Brief Introduction by Bruce Caldwell … Continue reading →

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Shakespearean Territories – planned book now has a dedicated page

Posted on January 6, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve consolidated all the links to audio recordings and other pieces on a dedicated page for the Shakespearean Territories planned book project. This project has slipped a bit recently, as I’ve been concentrating on the Foucault’s Last Decade book, but I … Continue reading →

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Beautiful Bookstores – some stunning photographs

Posted on January 3, 2014 by stuartelden

A series of pictures of beautiful bookstores across the world (thanks to Ben Rosamond for the link).

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Books received – From Above, Intolérable, The Politics of Ourselves…

Posted on January 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Philippe Artières (ed.), Intolérable: Groupe d’information sur les prisons; Peter Adey, Mark Whitehead and Alison Williams (eds.), From Above: War, Violence and Verticality; Amy Allen, The Politics of Ourselves; the Theory, Culture & Society annual review; and the latest Society and Space.

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Caesar Must Die – trailer and brief comments

Posted on January 2, 2014 by stuartelden

Caesar Must Die (Cesare deve morire) is a very powerful piece of cinema, now on dvd release, showing the rehearsals for a performance of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The performers are all inmates of a high-security prison in Rome, and while they do … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s ‘About the Concept of the Dangerous Individual’ lecture in Toronto in 1977 – three minor questions

Posted on January 2, 2014 by stuartelden

In 1977 Foucault gave a lecture in Toronto entitled ‘About the Concept of the ‘Dangerous Individual’ in 19th Century Legal Psychiatry’. It was published first in English in International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Vol 1 No 1, pp, 1-18. It … Continue reading →

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Books I’m looking forward to in 2014

Posted on January 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Some of the books I’m looking forward to this year include Henri Lefebvre, Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment (edited by Łukasz Stanek and previously unpublished in any language); Neil Brenner’s epic edited collection Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization; Mick Dillon’s Biopolitics of Security in the 21st … Continue reading →

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50 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in 2013 – Updated

Posted on January 1, 2014 by stuartelden

critical-theory.com’s 40 books that came out in 2013 has been updated to 50 books – including reader suggestions and December publications.

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