Category Archives: People

Nik Heynen to give the Neil Smith Lecture, 5 February 2018

Posted on January 26, 2018 by stuartelden

The Neil Smith Lecture 2018 University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK Professor Nik Heynen, University of Georgia, USA Irvine Lecture Theatre, School of Geography & Sustainable Development 3.15-5pm – Monday 5 February 2018, Followed by a reception 5-6.30pm All welcome The Pirates … Continue reading →

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Territory’s Value: An Interdisciplinary Workshop with Charles Maier, Queen Mary, University of London, 14 February 2018

Posted on January 24, 2018 by stuartelden

14 February 2018, Territory’s Value: An Interdisciplinary Workshop with Charles Maier, Queen Mary, University of London,Francis Bancroft Building, Room 3.26 (see here for a map of the campus). I’ll be speaking about my forthcoming book Shakespearean Territories. Registration is free, but required. … Continue reading →

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Foucault at the Movies (Columbia UP 2018), translated and edited by Clare O’Farrell, edited Patrice Maniglier and Dork Zabunyan

Posted on January 22, 2018 by stuartelden

Foucault at the Movies (Columbia UP 2018), translated and edited by Clare O’Farrell, French edition edited by Patrice Maniglier and Dork Zabunyan. Forthcoming in July, this is a translation of Foucault va au cinéma (2011). Michel Foucault’s work on film, … Continue reading →

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Books received – Connolly, Scarry, Elborough & Gordon, Lefebvre, Bracke

Posted on January 19, 2018 by stuartelden

William Connolly, Aspirational Fascism: The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism; Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain; Travis Elborough and Helen Gordon, Being a Writer; Henri Lefebvre, Key Writings and Astrid Bracke, Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel. The … Continue reading →

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Jeff Malpas, Place and Experience A Philosophical Topography, 2nd Edition coming in March 2018

Posted on January 18, 2018 by stuartelden

Jeff Malpas, Place and Experience A Philosophical Topography, second edition coming in March 2018. The first edition of Place and Experience established Jeff Malpas as one of the leading philosophers and thinkers of place and space and provided a creative … Continue reading →

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Maja Zehfuss, War and the Politics of Ethics – now out with OUP

Posted on January 16, 2018 by stuartelden

Maja Zehfuss, War and the Politics of Ethics – now published with Oxford University Press. [Update: jumped the gun here – will actually be published in February 2018] Contemporary Western war is represented as enacting the West’s ability and responsibility … Continue reading →

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Books received – Freud, Beckman on Deleuze, Heidegger, Olson, Hanawalt, Willetts

Posted on January 12, 2018 by stuartelden

Freud’s Therapy and Technique; Frida Beckman’s Gilles Deleuze; the latest volume of Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe; Kevin Olson’s Imagined Sovereignties: The Power of the People and Other Myths of the Modern Age; Barbara Hanawalt’s Ceremony and Civility: Civic Culture in Late Medieval London; and David Willett’s A University … Continue reading →

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Books received – Soussloff and Favreau on Foucault, Kleinberg, Gandal, Höfele, Flynn on Sartre, Withers

Posted on January 9, 2018 by stuartelden

Some recently received books – Catherine M. Soussloff, Foucault on Painting; Jean-François Favreau, Vertiges de l’écriture : Michel Foucault et la littérature (1954-1970); Ethan Kleinberg, Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past; Keith Gandal, The Gun and the Pen: Hemingway, … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, The Survival of Capitalism – how to reconstruct an English version of the French text

Posted on January 8, 2018 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre’s 1973 book La survie du capitalisme: La reproduction des rapports de production (Anthropos, third edition 2002) was one of the relatively few of his books which was translated within a few years of its initial publication. Many of … Continue reading →

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Figure/Ground interview with Leonard Lawlor

Posted on January 6, 2018 by stuartelden

Figure/Ground interview with Leonard Lawlor – lots of good discussion of European philosophy, including Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Heidegger and Lyotard. Also some interesting comments about writing: What advice would you give to young graduate students and aspiring university professors? I … Continue reading →

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