Category Archives: People

Foucault: The Birth of Power reviewed at LSE Review of Books

Posted on August 1, 2017 by stuartelden

Foucault: The Birth of Power is reviewed at LSE Review of Books by Syamala Roberts. In Foucault: The Birth of Power, Stuart Elden outlines how the theorisation of power was the essential tool developed within Foucault’s work and political activities … Continue reading →

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Judith Butler “Critique, Crisis, Violence” – video of Bologna lecture

Posted on July 27, 2017 by stuartelden
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Figure/Ground interview with Catherine Malabou

Posted on July 26, 2017 by stuartelden

Figure/Ground interview with Catherine Malabou: Dr. Malabou was interviewed by Gerardo Flores Peña. July 25th, 2017. Catherine Malabou is a professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS and professor of modern European philosophy at the Centre for … Continue reading →

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Neil Brenner, Debating Planetary Urbanization: For an Engaged Pluralism – open access working paper

Posted on July 26, 2017 by stuartelden

Neil Brenner, “Debating planetary urbanization: for an engaged pluralism,” Working Paper, Urban Theory Lab, Harvard GSD, Summer 2017. This essay reflects on recent debates around planetary urbanization, many of which have been articulated through strikingly dismissive caricatures of the core … Continue reading →

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Michelle Terry appointed as new artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe

Posted on July 26, 2017 by stuartelden

Earlier this week it was announced that Michelle Terry had been appointed as the new artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe. This follows the premature end to Emma Rice’s time in that role (which I reported and briefly commented on last … Continue reading →

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Marianne Janack, María Pía Lara, Eduardo Mendieta, and Martin Woessner – A Forum on Richard Rorty

Posted on July 24, 2017 by stuartelden

Marianne Janack, María Pía Lara, Eduardo Mendieta, and Martin Woessner – A Forum on Richard Rorty in the Los Angeles Review of Books AFTER DONALD J. TRUMP was elected president of the United States, the American philosopher Richard Rorty (1931–2007) … Continue reading →

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Stuart Hall: In Conversations

Posted on July 24, 2017 by stuartelden

Stuart Hall: In Conversations Explore the life, work and legacy of a thinker that some call the last of the great public intellectuals and a figure widely credited with being the founder of cultural studies: this man is Stuart Hall. … Continue reading →

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Rhetoric, Fascism and the Planetary: A Conversation between William Connolly and Nidesh Lawtoo

Posted on July 24, 2017 by stuartelden

Rhetoric, Fascism and the Planetary: A Conversation between William Connolly and Nidesh Lawtoo at The Contemporary Condition. As well as talking about Connolly’s recent book, Facing the Planetary, it also discusses themes from his next, the forthcoming Aspirational Fascism.

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Remigiusz Ryziński discusses Foucault’s time in Poland

Posted on July 24, 2017 by stuartelden

Remigiusz Ryziński discusses his book Foucault w Warszawie, an account of the short period Foucault spent in Poland in the late 1950s – between his time in Uppsala and Warsaw. While the interview is in Polish, machine translation seems to … Continue reading →

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Beginning work on the revision of Shakespearean Territories – and the climb that awaits at the end of it

Posted on July 17, 2017 by stuartelden

Today I begin work on the revisions for Shakespearean Territories. At the end of this work – in about three weeks’ time – I’m off to Provence for a week of cycling, including Mont Ventoux.

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