Category Archives: People

Books received – Dodds & Nuttall, Osborne, Bataille, Demetriou and Dimova, Fennelly, Magazine littéraire

Posted on July 26, 2019 by stuartelden

Books received – Klaus Dodds & Mark Nuttall, The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know, Thomas Osborne, The Structure of Modern Cultural Theory, George Bataille, The Unfinished System of Knowledge, Olga Demetriou and Rozita Dimova, The Political Materialities of Borders, Katherine Fennelly, An … Continue reading →

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Nadia Bou Ali and Rohit Goel (eds.), Lacan Contra Foucault: Subjectivity, Sex, and Politics, Bloomsbury, 2019 – reviewed at NDPR

Posted on July 24, 2019 by stuartelden

Nadia Bou Ali and Rohit Goel (eds.), Lacan Contra Foucault: Subjectivity, Sex, and Politics, Bloomsbury, 2019 – reviewed at NDPR. Sounds an interesting, if uneven collection. Shame about the prohibitive price. This book grew out of a 2015 conference at … Continue reading →

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Remembering Paul Virilio: New Issue of Cultural Politics July 2019 (requires subscription)

Posted on July 24, 2019 by stuartelden

Remembering Paul Virilio: New Issue of Cultural Politics July 2019 (requires subscription)  

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Michel Foucault, Folie, Langage, Litterature, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini and Judith Revel, Vrin, September 2019

Posted on July 19, 2019 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Folie, Langage, Litterature, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini and Judith Revel, Vrin, September 2019 The latest collection of pieces from the archive, with an introduction by Judith Revel. La folie, le langage et la littérature ont longtemps … Continue reading →

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Books received – Melossi & Pavarini, Talcott, Foucault, Hall

Posted on July 17, 2019 by stuartelden

Books received in recompense for review work – Dario Melossi & Massimo Pavarini, The Prison and the Factory; Samuel Talcott, Georges Canguilhem and the Problem of Error; Michel Foucault, Discourse and Truth and Parrēsia, and Stuart Hall, Familiar Stranger: A Life between … Continue reading →

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‘Foucault in the Valley of Death’ – Andrew Marzoni on Simeon Wade’s Foucault in California

Posted on July 16, 2019 by stuartelden

‘Foucault in the Valley of Death‘ – Andrew Marzoni on Simeon Wade’s Foucault in California in The Baffler (online and in issue #46). I spoke to Marzoni by phone during his research for this piece, and am briefly quoted in it. … Continue reading →

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‘Judith Butler: When Killing Women Isn’t a Crime’ – interview and details of forthcoming book The Force of Non-Violence

Posted on July 15, 2019 by stuartelden

Judith Butler: When Killing Women Isn’t a Crime – interview with George Yancy in The New York Times. Thanks to Morris Kaplan for the link. Among other things it talks of her forthcoming book The Force of Non-Violence, forthcoming with Verso … Continue reading →

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Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics – Duke University Press, October 2019

Posted on July 11, 2019 by stuartelden

Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics – Duke University Press, October 2019 In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror … Continue reading →

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L’aventure Althusser – 1 hour documentary with interviews with Macherey, Balibar, Rancière, etc, available until 7 July 2019

Posted on July 5, 2019 by stuartelden

L’aventure Althusser – 1 hour documentary with interviews with Macherey, Balibar, Rancière, etc, available until 7 July 2019. Thanks to Nadim Khoury for sending the link. Le portrait passionnant du philosophe marxiste Louis Althusser qui, avant de sombrer dans la … Continue reading →

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John Agnew awarded the 2019 Prix Vautrin-Lud

Posted on July 5, 2019 by stuartelden

John Agnew has been awarded the 2019 Prix Vautrin-Lud – the highest award in Geography and sometimes called the equivalent of the discipline’s Nobel prize. There is a news report in French here. Thanks to Sally Hardy for the alert.

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