Category Archives: Jacques Derrida

Reading David Farrell Krell on Derrida and our Animal Others

Posted on September 6, 2013 by stuartelden

David Farrell Krell has long been one of my favourite commentators on Heidegger and Nietzsche. He is the principal translator of Heidegger’s multi-volume book on Nietzsche, as well as Basic Writings and some other texts, wrote the great book Daimon … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on August 31, 2013 by stuartelden

Two reissues of Foucault books, Joshua Barkan’s Corporate Sovereignty, David Farrell Krell’s Derrida and our Animal Others, Sloterdijk’s In the World Interior of Capital, and Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway.

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Derrida books received

Posted on July 31, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve done a couple of reviews for University of Chicago Press recently. I got most of the recent books I wanted for one review, and for the other filled in a few gaps in my Derrida shelf. His first seminar … Continue reading →

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Louise Amoore, The Politics of Possibility

Posted on April 19, 2013 by stuartelden

My friend and Durham colleague Louise Amoore’s forthcoming book, The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond Probability, now has a page up at Duke University Press site. It looks great: Since September 11, 2001, the imagination of “low probability, … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, Louise Amoore, Michel Foucault, Politics, William E Connolly | 1 Comment

Talking about Nigeria in Turkey

Posted on April 5, 2013 by stuartelden

Today I gave a talk entitled “Nigeria’s War on Terror: The Geopolitics of Boko Haram”, to the Political Science & International Relations Academic Fellowship Program Discipline Group meeting. This is a programme run by the Open Society Institute, and this … Continue reading →

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Deleuze, Lyotard, de Gandillac, Klossowski, Derrida, Pautrat

Posted on January 14, 2013 by stuartelden

In the comments to the ‘When Heidegger met Lacan’ post, ‘Naxos’ shares a link to this photograph from Cerisy-la-salle in 1972. left to right – Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard, Maurice de Gandillac, Pierre Klossowski, Jacques Derrida, and (Bernard?) Pautrat.

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Keywords project website

Posted on December 17, 2012 by stuartelden

A website dedicated to the Keywords project – developing ideas from Raymond Williams. There are various videos, including one of a discussion between Williams and Jacques Derrida.

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Books received

Posted on December 5, 2012 by stuartelden

Another pile of books. David Martin-Jones, Deleuze and World Cinemas; the Heidegger & Nietzsche collection I have a piece in; the new biography of Derrida and Beyond Walls and Cages in recompense for review work; another one of Jean Gottmann’s works; … Continue reading →

Posted in Giacomo Marramao, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jean Gottmann, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault | Leave a comment

Books I’ve read and plan to read

Posted on December 2, 2012 by stuartelden

A book meme I took from Rob Kitchin’s The View from the Blue House and first answered a year ago. As before I’ve largely answered in relation to non-academic reading… The book I’m currently reading? Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, China Mieville, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Derrida, Shakespearean Territories, William Shakespeare | 1 Comment

Radical Philosophy 176 – and iPad edition

Posted on October 30, 2012 by stuartelden

Number 176 is available – Judith Butler, Ontological Politics, Lyotard’s Discourse, Figure, Pussy Riot and lots of reviews, including the new biography of Derrida. And you can now read the journal on iPad and Android – details here.

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