Category Archives: People

Kathryn Medien, ‘Foucault in Tunisia: The encounter with intolerable power’, The Sociological Review 2019

Posted on September 11, 2019 by stuartelden

Kathryn Medien, ‘Foucault in Tunisia: The encounter with intolerable power‘, The Sociological Review, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026119870107 (requires subscription) In September 1966, 10 years after Tunisia officially gained independence from French colonial rule, Michel Foucault took up a three-year secondment, teaching philosophy … Continue reading →

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Free download of Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, Verso until September 7, 2019

Posted on September 4, 2019 by stuartelden

Download Metaphilosophy by Henri Lefebvre – for free! – until Saturday, September 7th! Until September 7th, we’re giving away the ebook edition of Henri Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy. An essential book on our Philosophy: Verso Student Reading list, and a key text in Lefebvre’s oeuvre, Metaphilosophy is a milestone in … Continue reading →

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Marcel M. van der Linden and Gerald Hubmann (eds.), Marx’s Capital: An Unfinishable Project? Haymarket, 2019

Posted on August 29, 2019 by stuartelden

Marcel M. van der Linden and Gerald Hubmann (eds.), Marx’s Capital: An Unfinishable Project? Haymarket, 2019 Good to see this is now available in paperback For almost 150 years, scholars have been debating how to interpret Marx’s seminal work Capital … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault update 26 – Defert, Wahl, Warsaw, Hamburg, Dumézil

Posted on August 23, 2019 by stuartelden

Since the last update, and a short holiday in Wales, I’ve been systematically going through each of the previously drafted chapters, and doing a bit of reorganization. I’ve also worked through all the issues of Le Magazine Littéraire which have theme … Continue reading →

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Books received – Martin Jones, Cities and Regions in Crisis and some for the early Foucault work

Posted on August 22, 2019 by stuartelden

A copy of Martin Jones, Cities and Regions in Crisis, generously sent by Martin, and some second-hand ones for The Early Foucault work. Clavel, Mauriac and Italiaander all knew Foucault at different times, and Pestana is a useful study of his early … Continue reading →

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Nancy Luxon (ed.), Archives of Infamy: Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens – University of Minnesota Press, August 2019

Posted on August 12, 2019 by stuartelden

Nancy Luxon (ed.), Archives of Infamy: Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens – University of Minnesota Press, August 2019 Great to see a copy of this collection, in which I have a piece ‘Home, Street, City: … Continue reading →

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Books received – Neil Brenner, New State Spaces, and books from Duke University Press

Posted on August 7, 2019 by stuartelden

A copy of Neil Brenner’s New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question, sent by Neil, and some books from Duke University Press in recompense for review work. They are Stuart Hall, Essential Essays and Cultural Studies 1983; Ann Laura Stoler, Duress, Ernesto Bassi, … Continue reading →

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Videos of Plenaries from Truth, Fiction, Illusion: Worlds & Experience’ Conference 2019 – Malpas, Elden, Margaroni, Mbembe, Stiegler

Posted on August 6, 2019 by stuartelden

Full playlist here – plenaries by Jeff Malpas, Stuart Elden, Maria Margaroni, Bernard Stiegler, Achille Mbembe and discussion between Mbembe and Stiegler.

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Richard Polt, Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties reviewed at NDPR by Thomas Sheehan

Posted on August 6, 2019 by stuartelden

Also at NDPR, Thomas Sheehan reviews Richard Polt’s Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties. In the Anglophone world, few if any know the Heidegger of the 1930s better than Richard Polt. His co-translation of three Heidegger courses … Continue reading →

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Jacques Derrida, Theory and Practice reviewed at NDPR by Edward Baring

Posted on August 6, 2019 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Theory and Practice – his 1976-77 ENS lecture course – is reviewed at NDPR by Edward Baring, author of the excellent The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945-1968. Jacques Derrida’s Theory and Practice, a seminar he taught at the École … Continue reading →

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