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Derrida’s early lecture course on Heidegger reviewed at LARB

Posted on June 28, 2016 by stuartelden

Derrida’s 1964-65 lecture course Heidegger: The Question of Being and History is reviewed at LARB by Richard Polt (thanks to Peter Gratton for the link).

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Michel Foucault, Prisons and the future of abolition – an interview at Critical Theory

Posted on June 26, 2016 by stuartelden

At Critical-Theory.com, there is an interesting interview with Andrew Dilts and Perry Zurn about Foucault, the Prisons Information Group and the future of prisons and abolition. It builds on the work of their edited book Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons … Continue reading →

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Books received – three Marxist classics from Verso: Lefebvre, Althusser et. al. and Goldmann

Posted on June 25, 2016 by stuartelden

Books received – three Marxist classics from Verso. Henri Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy, the first complete English translation of Althusser, Balibar, Establet, Macherey and Rancière’s Reading Capital and Lucien Goldmann’s The Hidden God. Metaphilosophy is a book I’ve wanted to get translated into English for … Continue reading →

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“Sur les Toits”: An open-access Antipode Symposium on the Prison Protests in Early 1970s France

Posted on June 23, 2016 by stuartelden

“Sur les Toits”: An open-access Antipode Symposium on the Prison Protests in Early 1970s France This symposium contains a rich collection of contributions based on the screening of the French documentary film Sur les Toits (“On the Roofs”). On a Wednesday in May … Continue reading →

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Second English volume of Heidegger’s Black Notebooks forthcoming

Posted on June 14, 2016 by stuartelden

Martin Heidegger, Ponderings VII–XI: Black Notebooks 1938–1939, translated by Richard Rojcewicz, forthcoming in early 2017. Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for the tip. Through these broad and sprawling notebooks, Heidegger offers fascinating opinions on Holderlin, Nietzsche, Wagner, Wittgenstein, Pascal, and many others. … Continue reading →

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Review essay on Axelos. An Introduction to Future Ways of Thought: On Marx and Heidegger by Cameron Duncan

Posted on June 14, 2016 by stuartelden

Review essay on Kostas Axelos, An Introduction to a Future Way of Thought: On Marx and Heidegger by Cameron Duncan in PhaenEx. Both the essay and the book are available open access. Here’s one key paragraph from the review. Though not well-known … Continue reading →

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Yi Chen, Practising Rhythmanalysis: Theories and Methodologies

Posted on June 13, 2016 by stuartelden

Yi Chen, Practising Rhythmanalysis: Theories and Methodologies – forthcoming this autumn. This book explores rhythmanalysis as a philosophy and as a research method for the study of cultural historical experiences. It formulates ‘rhythm’ as a critical concept which is defined … Continue reading →

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Books received – Dodds and Nuttall, Farge, Sloterdijk

Posted on June 11, 2016 by stuartelden

Four books received in recompense for review work for Polity – Peter Sloterdijk’s Selected Exaggerations, Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall’s The Scramble for the Poles, and two older translations by Arlette Farge.

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The Magus of Messkirch – Martin Heidegger documentary

Posted on June 9, 2016 by stuartelden

The Magus of Messkirch – Martin Heidegger documentary in German with English subtitles.

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Bruno Latour, ‘Onus Orbis Terrarum: About a Possible Shift in the Definition of Sovereignty’

Posted on June 8, 2016 by stuartelden

Bruno Latour, ‘Onus Orbis Terrarum: About a Possible Shift in the Definition of Sovereignty’, Millennium, Vol 44 No 3, 2016, pp. 305-20 (open access). Derek Gregory picks up a few contentious claims here.

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