Category Archives: People

Books received – Dodds, McCormack, Derrida, Basso, Rekret, Brighenti and Kärrholm

Posted on September 20, 2018 by stuartelden

Klaus Dodds, Ice: Nature and Culture; Derek McCormack, Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment; Jacques Derrida, The Ear of the Other; Elisabetta Basso, Michel Foucault et la Daseinsanalyse; The Derrida Reader edited by Julian Wolfreys; Paul Rekret, Derrida and Foucault, Andrea Mubi Brighenti … Continue reading →

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Miguel de Beistegui, The Government of Desire: A Genealogy of the Liberal Subject  – reviewed by John Protevi at NDPR

Posted on September 19, 2018 by stuartelden

Miguel de Beistegui, The Government of Desire: A Genealogy of the Liberal Subject (University of Chicago Press, 2018) – reviewed by John Protevi at NDPR. Here’s the press’s description of the book: Liberalism, Miguel de Beistegui argues in The Government of Desire, … Continue reading →

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Paul Virilio (1932-2018) – obituary at France Culture and at Frieze by McKenzie Wark

Posted on September 19, 2018 by stuartelden

Paul Virilio (1932-2018) – obituary at France Culture and at Frieze by McKenzie Wark Virilio was one of the last representatives of a hugely influential generation of French theorists. Personally I found his early work most of interest – from Bunker … Continue reading →

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Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime – reviewed at LARB

Posted on September 19, 2018 by stuartelden

The book I mentioned yesterday – Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime – is reviewed, in its French edition, in the Los Angeles Review of Books by James Delbourgo.

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Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime – Polity, September 2018

Posted on September 17, 2018 by stuartelden

Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime – Polity, September 2018 The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive … Continue reading →

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Samuel Talcott, Georges Canguilhem and the Problem of Error – Palgrave, February 2019

Posted on September 17, 2018 by stuartelden

Samuel Talcott, Georges Canguilhem and the Problem of Error – Palgrave, February 2019 Examining Georges Canguilhem’s enduring attention to the problem of error, from his early writings to Michel Foucault’s first major responses to his work, this pathbreaking book shows … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Penal Theories and Institutions – Palgrave, January 2020? (was November 2019, and previously 2018)

Posted on September 11, 2018 by stuartelden

Update: the Palgrave site now says January 2020 24 November 2019 – but they have missed several previous dates… Michel Foucault, Penal Theories and Institutions: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1971-1972 – Palgrave November 2018 “What characterizes the act of justice is not … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, “Discourse and Truth” and “Parresia” – University of Chicago Press, July 2019

Posted on September 11, 2018 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, “Discourse and Truth” and “Parresia” – University of Chicago Press, July 2019. This volume collects a series of lectures given by the renowned French thinker Michel Foucault late in his career. The book is composed of two parts: … Continue reading →

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Deleuze seminars – some more translated into English

Posted on September 6, 2018 by stuartelden

Some more of Deleuze’s seminars have been translated into English – details here, and more are forthcoming. Ones currently available include lectures on Anti-Oedipus, Spinoza, painting, and Foucault. The site has the French text and audio as well as the … Continue reading →

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Jacques Derrida, Geschlecht III: Sexe, race, nation, humanité – Seuil, 2018

Posted on September 6, 2018 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Geschlecht III: Sexe, race, nation, humanité  The third, and previously unpublished, text in Derrida’s series of discussions of Heidegger is coming out with Seuil in October 2018. I’m not quite sure how an essay has become a whole … Continue reading →

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