Category Archives: People

Gastón Gordillo, Terrain as insurgent weapon: An affective geometry of warfare in the mountains of Afghanistan

Posted on March 20, 2018 by stuartelden

Gastón Gordillo, “Terrain as insurgent weapon: An affective geometry of warfare in the mountains of Afghanistan“, Political Geography (requires subscription – first page available to preview or click on the image). No abstract, so I’ve taken this summary from Derek Gregory’s Geographical … Continue reading →

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Territory Beyond Terra – reflections on the Rowman International blog

Posted on March 20, 2018 by stuartelden

Territory Beyond Terra was published earlier this month. Edited by Kimberley Peters, Philip Steinberg and Elaine Stratford, the book has a series of essays which look at elements, environments and edges to challenge and extend our understanding of territory. There are … Continue reading →

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Review essay of Foucault, Les Aveux de la chair in Theory, Culture and Society (open access)

Posted on March 20, 2018 by stuartelden

My review essay of the fourth volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality, Les aveux de la chair is now available in Theory, Culture and Society. The essay will appear in the annual review of the journal later this year, but this version is … Continue reading →

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Bernard E. Harcourt, “The Barbarism of Alabama’s Botched Execution”

Posted on March 17, 2018 by stuartelden

Bernard E. Harcourt, “The Barbarism of Alabama’s Botched Execution” in The New York Review of Books. A powerful and disturbing piece about the attempted execution of Doyle Lee Hamm earlier this month.

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Foucault: The Birth of Power reviewed by Audrey Borowski in Politics, Religion & Ideology

Posted on March 11, 2018 by stuartelden

My 2017 book Foucault: The Birth of Power is generously reviewed by Audrey Borowski in Politics, Religion & Ideology (requires subscription). Links to other reviews and discussions of this book, and its companion Foucault’s Last Decade are archived here.  

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Books received – Dumézil, Canguilhem, Nail, Irrera & Vaccaro, Villacañas & Castro, Foucault, Kotowicz, Braunstein et al, Bleiker

Posted on March 9, 2018 by stuartelden

A pile of recently received books – Georges Dumézil, Entretiens avec Didier Eribon; Georges Canguilhem, Études d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences; Thomas Nail, Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion; Orazio Irrera & Salvo Vaccaro, La pensée politique de Foucault, … Continue reading →

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Foucault in Hamburg – article in German by Rainer Nicolaysen (open access)

Posted on March 9, 2018 by stuartelden

Not much is known about Foucault’s time in Hamburg in 1959-60, except that he was working on his translation of Kant’s Anthropology at this time. The preface to History of Madness was also written there. A new piece in German … Continue reading →

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The Critical Zone of Science and Politics: An Interview with Bruno Latour in LARB

Posted on March 2, 2018 by stuartelden

The Critical Zone of Science and Politics: An Interview with Bruno Latour in Los Angeles Review of Books

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Peter Sloterdijk in The New Yorker

Posted on March 2, 2018 by stuartelden

Peter Sloterdijk in The New Yorker (via Peter Gratton)

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Shakespearean Territories – forthcoming in October 2018 with University of Chicago Press

Posted on March 1, 2018 by stuartelden

Pleased to be able to share the cover of my forthcoming book Shakespearean Territories – due out in October 2018 with University of Chicago Press. As many people will recognise, the image is a detail of ‘the Ditchley Portrait‘ of Queen … Continue reading →

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