Category Archives: Mark Neocleous

My favourite academic books of 2022

Posted on December 30, 2022 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021). The criteria was simply that they were published in that year (or late the previous year), and that I read and appreciated them. … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Carlo Ginzburg, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Doreen Massey, Edward Said, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Henri Lefebvre, Jeff Malpas, Louis Althusser, Mark Neocleous, Michel Foucault, Territory | Leave a comment

My first book, Mapping the Present is 20 years old…

Posted on October 4, 2021 by stuartelden

It was twenty years ago today that my first book, Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History was published. I received an advance on 4 October 2001. The contract was signed with Athlone, who became … Continue reading →

Posted in Derek Gregory, Foucault's Last Decade, Henri Lefebvre, Mapping the Present, Mark Neocleous, Martin Heidegger, Michael Dillon, Michel Foucault, Speaking Against Number, Understanding Henri Lefebvre | 3 Comments

Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Hyppolite, Balibar, Balibar & Wallenstein, Dumézil, Neocleous, Eliade, Benveniste

Posted on February 10, 2021 by stuartelden

Mainly second-hand books for the ongoing Foucault research and related projects, but also a copy of Mark Neocleous, A Critical Theory of Police Power, and Etienne Balibar, Passions du concept, sent by their authors.

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Emile Benveniste, Etienne Balibar, Georges Dumézil, Jean Hyppolite, Mark Neocleous, Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault | Leave a comment

Academic Books of 2016 – my personal list

Posted on December 24, 2016 by stuartelden

Many of the academic books I read this year were for the Foucault and Shakespeare work, and few were published this year. This alphabetical list is of the twenty books published this year which I read and liked the most. … Continue reading →

Posted in Bob Jessop, Etienne Balibar, Eugen Fink, Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Rancière, Judith Butler, Louis Althusser, Mark Neocleous, Michel Foucault, Pierre Macherey, Stephen Graham, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare | 8 Comments

Mark Neocleous, The Universal Adversary: Security, Capital and the ‘Enemies of All Mankind’ – a few thoughts

Posted on May 18, 2016 by stuartelden

As I’ve previously mentioned, Mark Neocleous, The Universal Adversary: Security, Capital and the ‘Enemies of All Mankind’ is now out with Routledge. Here’s the backcover description: The history of bourgeois modernity is a history of the Enemy. This book is a radical exploration … Continue reading →

Posted in Daniel Heller-Roazen, Karl Marx, Mark Neocleous, Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Books received – Shakespeare, Sartre, Neocleous, TCS, Gabrys, Foucault

Posted on May 9, 2016 by stuartelden

A pile of books received – three second-hand books for the Shakespeare work, Jean-Paul Sartre’s What is Subjectivity?, Mark Neocleous’s The Universal Adversary, the new issue of Theory, Culture & Society, Jennifer Gabrys’s Program Earth, and the 2004 special issue … Continue reading →

Posted in Jean-Paul Sartre, Mark Neocleous, Michel Foucault, Shakespearean Territories, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

Mark Neocleous, The Universal Adversary: Security, Capital and the ‘Enemies of All Mankind’ – now out with Routledge

Posted on March 3, 2016 by stuartelden

Mark Neocleous, The Universal Adversary: Security, Capital and the ‘Enemies of All Mankind’ – now out with Routledge. The history of bourgeois modernity is a history of the Enemy. This book is a radical exploration of an Enemy that has recently emerged from … Continue reading →

Posted in Mark Neocleous, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

The most important academic books to me from 2014

Posted on December 31, 2014 by stuartelden

A non-systematic, alphabetically ordered list of the academic books published this year I read and most liked – the photo is of some that were to hand. Louis Althusser, On the Reproduction of Capitalism (Verso) Ben Anderson, Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions (Ashgate) Étienne Balibar, Equaliberty: … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, David N. Livingstone, Deborah Cowen, Etienne Balibar, Gaston Gordillo, Grégoire Chamayou, Henri Lefebvre, Jenny Edkins, Mark Neocleous, Michel Foucault, Neil Brenner, Politics, Publishing, Quentin Skinnner, Territory, Theory, William Shakespeare, Writing | 9 Comments

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

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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