Category Archives: People

Review of Robert E. Lerner, Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life at Berfrois

Posted on February 21, 2017 by stuartelden

Update September 2025: the Berfrois site is now closed and the archive has been removed. My piece can now be found here. My review of Robert E. Lerner, Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life has just appeared at Berfrois. Beyond the ranks … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault update 4: Merleau-Ponty, Canguilhem, a week in the archive and a book contract…

Posted on February 21, 2017 by stuartelden

The past few weeks have felt like I am running a few different research careers in parallel, with ongoing things around Lefebvre, Shakespeare and the terrain work. This has meant dealing with publishers, grant bodies, and writing projects, as well … Continue reading →

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Critique n° 835 : Michel Foucault – including a previously unpublished lecture by Foucault

Posted on February 20, 2017 by stuartelden

Critique n° 835 is a theme issue entitled ‘Michel Foucault. Un très beau feu d’artifice‘. Perhaps the key piece of interest is a previously unpublished lecture by Foucault, ‘La littérature et la folie’, edited from the manuscript at the Bibliothèque … Continue reading →

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Genealogies of Environmentalism: The Lost Works of Clarence Glacken – forthcoming in June 2017

Posted on February 7, 2017 by stuartelden

Genealogies of Environmentalism: The Lost Works of Clarence Glacken – edited by S. Ravi Rajan with Adam Romero and Michael Watts – forthcoming with University of Virginia Press in June 2017. I’m very pleased to see this – when I … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lacan, Shakespeare, Freud, Nietzsche, Bambach and Kantorowicz

Posted on February 5, 2017 by stuartelden

Lacan’s Four Fundamental Concepts; the new Arden edition of Cymbeline; the translation of the first edition of Freud’s Three Essays; the 1964 proceedings of a conference on Nietzsche; an edited collection on Lacan’s first two seminars; Charles Bambach’s Thinking the Poetic Measure … Continue reading →

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Alain Badiou, No Limit – a report on his final seminar

Posted on February 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Alain Badiou, No Limit – a report on his final seminar by Philip Douroux, translated at the Verso blog (French original here).

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Althusser, Spinoza and Revolution in Philosophy: An Interview with Warren Montag

Posted on February 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Althusser, Spinoza and Revolution in Philosophy: An Interview with Warren Montag in Salvage. A fascinating discussion of Althusser, Jonathan Swift, Pierre Macherey, Adam Smith and others.

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Althusser, an Intellectual Adventure, a film by Bruno Oliviero – available on Youtube

Posted on January 28, 2017 by stuartelden

Update 27 Feb: the video has unfortunately been removed. Althusser, an Intellectual Adventure – a film by Bruno Oliviero. The entire film is available on Youtube. Thanks to Irina Culic for the link. The interview with Althusser is in Italian, … Continue reading →

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Eyal Weizman video interview on ‘Forensic Architecture – Investigating the Blueprint of War Crimes’ on Russia Today

Posted on January 27, 2017 by stuartelden

Eyal Weizman video interview on ‘Forensic Architecture – Investigating the Blueprint of War Crimes’ on Russia Today. A fascinating discussion of what his Goldsmiths research agency Forensic Architecture does, and a robust response to hostile questioning. Eyal writes: A few … Continue reading →

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Deborah Cowen on ‘Infrastructures of Empire and Resistance’ at the Verso site

Posted on January 27, 2017 by stuartelden

Deborah Cowen on ‘Infrastructures of Empire and Resistance‘ at the Verso site.

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