Category Archives: People

Daniela Vallega-Neu, Heidegger’s Poietic Writings: From Contributions to Philosophy to The Event reviewed at NDPR

Posted on January 23, 2019 by stuartelden

Daniela Vallega-Neu, Heidegger’s Poietic Writings: From Contributions to Philosophy to The Event reviewed at NDPR by Charles E. Scott. Here’s the publisher’s description: Engaging the development of Heidegger’s non-public writings on the event between 1936 and 1941, Daniela Vallega-Neu reveals … Continue reading →

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Beyond the Wall: A Q&A With Wendy Brown in The Nation

Posted on January 21, 2019 by stuartelden

Beyond the Wall: A Q&A With Wendy Brown in The Nation – connecting the ideas of her 2010 book Walled States, Waning Sovereignty to the current political situation. Thanks to dmf for this link.

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Gary Gutting (1942-2019)

Posted on January 20, 2019 by stuartelden

I’m sorry to hear the news of the death of Gary Gutting (on Daily Nous). Gutting was someone whose work I’ve known for a long time – Michel Foucault’s Archaeology of Scientific Reason was an early book on Foucault I read, in … Continue reading →

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Kathryn Medien, ‘Palestine in Deleuze’ – Theory, Culture & Society, online first

Posted on January 18, 2019 by stuartelden

Kathryn Medien, ‘Palestine in Deleuze‘ – Theory, Culture & Society, online first (requires subscription) In the late 1970s and early 1980s French philosopher Gilles Deleuze authored a series of articles in which he reflected on the formation of the state … Continue reading →

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Neil Brenner, New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question – OUP, June 2019

Posted on January 18, 2019 by stuartelden

Neil Brenner, New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question – OUP, June 2019 The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new forms of urbanization are crystallizing. … Continue reading →

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Richard Polt, Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties – Rowman & Littlefield, March 2019

Posted on January 11, 2019 by stuartelden

Richard Polt, Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties – Rowman & Littlefield, March 2019 In this important new book, Richard Polt takes a fresh approach to Heidegger’s thought during his most politicized period, and works toward a … Continue reading →

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Books received – Bataille & Weil, Grmek, Heidegger, Cook, Theory, Culture & Society

Posted on January 11, 2019 by stuartelden

Books received – George Bataille and Eric Weil correspondence, Mirko D. Grmek, Pathological Realities: Essays on Disease, Experiments, and History; the new translation of Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning the Thing, Deborah Cook, Adorno, Foucault and the Critique of the West, and … Continue reading →

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2018 in review – publications, talks, other academic stuff, and looking ahead to 2019

Posted on January 1, 2019 by stuartelden

My book Shakespearean Territories was published by University of Chicago Press right at the end of the year, although it doesn’t seem to be available everywhere just yet. A journal article previewing some of the book’s arguments appeared as “Why Should … Continue reading →

Posted in Canguilhem (book), Georges Canguilhem, Michel Foucault, Shakespearean Territories, terrain, Territory, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

My favourite academic books of 2018

Posted on December 31, 2018 by stuartelden

My favourite academic books of 2018. As with previous years – 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 – these are shaped by my interests, books that are sent to me, ones from publishers I review for, etc. etc. I’ve not read all the … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Doreen Massey, Frantz Fanon, Georges Canguilhem, Jacques Derrida, Jeff Malpas, Karl Marx, Louis Althusser, Maja Zehfuss, Michel Foucault, Philip Steinberg, Society and Space, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare | 11 Comments

The Early Foucault Update 22: Acéphale, Critique, Foucault’s thesis, Uppsala, Sussex

Posted on December 14, 2018 by stuartelden

In the second half of term I felt I made little progress, but have done a little reading and research in and around teaching, marking, meetings and other tasks. I did write the Introduction to a translation, which should be … Continue reading →

Posted in Baruch Spinoza, Foucault: The Birth of Power, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Bataille, Michel Foucault, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | 1 Comment