Category Archives: Giorgio Agamben

Adam Kotsko, Agamben translator, on ‘The experience of translating’

Posted on August 21, 2014 by stuartelden

Adam Kotsko, one of the key recent Agamben translators, reflects on ‘The experience of translating‘. I particularly appreciated the work of filling in the references and notes to texts in English. Here’s the first paragraph – well-worth a read, and … Continue reading →

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“Thought is the courage of hopelessness” – interview with Giorgio Agamben

Posted on June 18, 2014 by stuartelden

“Thought is the courage of hopelessness: an interview with philosopher Giorgio Agamben” at the Verso blog (translated from a French original).  

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Will Viney, Waste: A Philosophy of Things – forthcoming in July

Posted on May 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Will Viney, Waste: A Philosophy of Things – out now in July with Bloomsbury. 35% discount with code GLR D3D. Will kindly gave me a proof copy. It provides a very interesting approach to the topic, including an intriguing reading of King Lear, substantial discussion of … Continue reading →

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The art of Homo Sacer

Posted on May 5, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
 James Bridle‘s new installation, Homo Sacer, has opened at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool, as part of its Science Fiction: New Death exhibition: Explore how our relationship with technology has blurred the lines…

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Giorgio Agamben – The Homo Sacer series structure in visual form

Posted on April 14, 2014 by stuartelden

Thanks to Nicholas Dahmann for updating this image. According to some reports, II, 4 will not be published and the designation of Opus Dei as II, 5 may have been an error. L’uso dei corpi [The Use of Bodies] is the last planned … Continue reading →

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Jakob von Uexküll: A Foray Into the Worlds of Animals and Humans

Posted on March 30, 2014 by stuartelden

Jakob von Uexküll, A Foray Into the Worlds of Animals and Humans was recently published in a new edition. This is a text that Heidegger, Deleuze & Guattari and Agamben have all discussed. The Monoskop site has gathered a number of … Continue reading →

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Giorgio Agamben – From the State of Control to a Praxis of Destituent Power

Posted on February 5, 2014 by stuartelden

Faced with absolute state control and the rapid eradication of political society, only a theory and praxis of destituent power can reclaim democracy. This is the transcript of a public lecture by Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben delivered to a packed … Continue reading →

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Adam Kotsko to translate Agamben’s ‘Pilate and Jesus’ and ‘The Use of Bodies’

Posted on February 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Adam Kotsko has news of two forthcoming Agamben translations at AUFS. The first is a pamphlet-length book entitled Pilate and Jesus, which I have promised to complete this summer. The second, and presumably more interesting to most, is the final volume … Continue reading →

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State, Power, Freedom: European Political Theory – outline for teaching next year

Posted on January 27, 2014 by stuartelden

One of the things I was looking forward to, now back in a Politics department, was to teach some political theory. So, this is the outline of a planned module for either final year undergraduates or MA students. It revolves … Continue reading →

Posted in Giorgio Agamben, Henri Lefebvre, Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, teaching | 1 Comment

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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