Category Archives: People

Christian Abrahamsson, Topoi/Graphein: Mapping the Middle in Spatial Thought _ U Nebraska Press, 2018, with preface by Gunnar Olsson

Posted on March 28, 2019 by stuartelden

Christian Abrahamsson, Topoi/Graphein: Mapping the Middle in Spatial Thought – University of Nebraska Press, 2018, with preface by Gunnar Olsson In Topoi/Graphein Christian Abrahamsson maps the paradoxical limit of the in-between to reveal that to be human is to know how to live … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Discourse and Truth and Parresia, University of Chicago Press, 2019

Posted on March 28, 2019 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Discourse and Truth and Parresia, University of Chicago Press, 2019 edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini, English edition established by Nancy Luxon This volume collects a series of lectures given by the renowned French thinker Michel Foucault … Continue reading →

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David Farrell Krell, The Sea: A Philosophical Encounter – Bloomsbury, 2019

Posted on March 27, 2019 by stuartelden

David Farrell Krell, The Sea: A Philosophical Encounter – Bloomsbury, 2019 Humankind has a profound and complex relationship with the sea, a relationship that is extensively reflected in biology, psychology, religion, literature and poetry. The sea cradles and soothes us, … Continue reading →

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Richard Horton, ‘Frantz Fanon and the origins of global health’, The Lancet (open access)

Posted on March 25, 2019 by stuartelden

Richard Horton, ‘Frantz Fanon and the origins of global health’, The Lancet (open access)

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Forthcoming translations of Althusser – History and Imperialism (Polity) and Lessons on Rousseau (Verso)

Posted on March 25, 2019 by stuartelden

Forthcoming translations of Althusser from Polity and Verso History and Imperialism: Writings 1964-1988, translated by G.M. Goshgarian, Polity, October 2019 Writings on History brings together a selection of texts by Louis Althusser dating from 1963 to 1986, including essays, a … Continue reading →

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David Farrell Krell, “Derrida, Heidegger, and the Magnetism of the Trakl House” (on Derrida’s Geschlecht III – video)

Posted on March 22, 2019 by stuartelden

And while we’re on that theme – David Farrell Krell, “Derrida, Heidegger, and the Magnetism of the Trakl House” (on Derrida’s Geschlecht III – video)

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Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity: Derrida’s Geschlecht III (Goldsmiths, April 8-9, 2019)

Posted on March 22, 2019 by stuartelden

Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity: Derrida’s Geschlecht III (Goldsmiths, April 8-9, 2019) Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity: Derrida’s Geschlecht III A Conference on a Newly Re-discovered Text April 8-9, 2019 Richard Hoggart Building 137a, Goldsmiths, University of London This two-day conference focuses on a … Continue reading →

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History of Anthropology theme section – Canguilhem’s Milieu (open access)

Posted on March 18, 2019 by stuartelden

History of Anthropology theme section – Canguilhem’s Milieu (open access) Thanks to James Tyner for the link. Special Focus: Canguilhem’s Milieu Today Editors’ Introduction: As Adventurous as Life Gabriel Coren and Cameron Brinitzer The Life of the Milieu Kathleen Stewart … Continue reading →

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In Memory of Couze Venn

Posted on March 16, 2019 by stuartelden

I was very sorry to hear the news of the death of Couze Venn, earlier this week. Couze was a Professor at Goldsmiths University, and managing editor of Theory, Culture & Society. I first met Couze at a Foucault conference at … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory coda translated in Iran’s Shargh Daily

Posted on March 16, 2019 by stuartelden

The coda from my 2013 book The Birth of Territory (‘Territory as a Political Technology’) is translated in today’s issue of Iran’s Shargh Daily newspaper (the pdf is here). This translation is made by Sahand Sattari, who has also translated some … Continue reading →

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