Category Archives: Etienne Balibar

Verso Radical Thinkers – series 8 and call for suggestions

Posted on March 29, 2013 by stuartelden

From Sebastian Budgen at Verso – comments below are fine and I’ll pass them on: Series 8 of Radical Thinkers will consist in the following: Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings –  Louis Althusser Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Etienne Balibar, Jacques Rancière, Louis Althusser, Publishing | 11 Comments

London Critical Theory Summer School – Birkbeck, 1-12 July 2013

Posted on December 17, 2012 by stuartelden

The 2013 London Critical Theory Summer School will take place at Birkbeck from 1st July – 12th July 2013. This unique opportunity is for graduate students and academics to follow a course of study and to foster exchange and debate. … Continue reading →

Posted in Catherine Malabou, Etienne Balibar, Slavoj Zizek | Leave a comment

‘The Essential Verso Undergraduate Reading List’

Posted on September 28, 2012 by stuartelden

Verso have posted another one their lists – this time ‘The Essential Verso Undergraduate Reading List’. Twenty books here including Marx, Paul Mason, Peter Dews, Jameson, Anderson (Perry & Benedict), Stephen Lukes, Žižek, Eagleton, David Harvey, Therborn, Balibar, Vinayak Chaturvedi, … Continue reading →

Posted in Alain Badiou, Books, David Harvey, Edward Soja, Etienne Balibar, Fredric Jameson, Karl Marx, Politics, Publishing, Slavoj Zizek, teaching | Leave a comment

Balibar and Mezzadra at the Tate Modern – topology and borders

Posted on June 19, 2012 by stuartelden

Videos of Etienne Balibar and Sandro Mezzadra on topology and borders. Via Joshua Kurz’s Being-in-Exodus blog.

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Étienne Balibar – Anti-Humanism, and the Question of Philosophical Anthropology

Posted on May 31, 2012 by stuartelden

Audio recording of a lecture with response and discussion, here. (Thanks to Sam Kinsley for the link) The controversy opposing “humanism” and “anti-humanism” was especially virulent in the 1960s and 70s in France, involving different tendencies of Phenomenology, Marxism, Structuralism … Continue reading →

Posted in Etienne Balibar, Louis Althusser, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault | 2 Comments

Political Theology and Early Modernity

Posted on May 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting looking collection edited by Graham Hammill and Julia Reinhard Lupton, with a postface by Etienne Balibar. Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and … Continue reading →

Posted in Baruch Spinoza, Books, Carl Schmitt, Etienne Balibar, Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, Walter Benjamin, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

Borders of Justice

Posted on February 23, 2012 by stuartelden

Borders of Justice – new book edited by Étienne Balibar, Sandro Mezzadra and Ranabir Samaddar. You can read the introduction here.

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Rancière, Macherey, Balibar in review

Posted on February 3, 2012 by stuartelden

The Notes Taken rounds up three reviews.

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Pierre Macherey – where to start?

Posted on January 13, 2012 by stuartelden

I was sent the following query as a followup to the recent post on the review of Macherey’s Hegel or Spinoza: With all the recent notices over the new translation of Pierre Macherey’s Hegel or Spinoza, I was thinking of … Continue reading →

Posted in Etienne Balibar, Jacques Rancière, Louis Althusser, Pierre Macherey | 5 Comments

Topology at the Tate Modern

Posted on October 21, 2011 by stuartelden

A series of talks from 5 November 2011 to 12 May 2012: Giorgio Agamben, Etienne Balibar, Rosi Braidotti, Drucilla Cornell, Olafur Eliasson, David Harvey, Bruno Latour, Achille Mbembe, Ernesto Neto, Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Peter Weibel are among the … Continue reading →

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