Category Archives: People

Farge and Foucault, Disorderly Families – forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press

Posted on July 6, 2016 by stuartelden

Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault, Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives, forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press, edited by Nancy Luxon and translated by Thomas Scott-Railton. The UMP page says January 2017; Amazon suggests November 2016. There will be … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the Anthropocene – Video of debate with Peter Sloterdijk and Bernard Stiegler

Posted on July 1, 2016 by stuartelden

Welcome to the Anthropocene – Video of debate with Peter Sloterdijk and Bernard Stiegler (via Philippe Theophanidis) We no longer live in the Holocene. Welcome to the Anthropocene! For the first time in history it is not nature but man … Continue reading →

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Theory, Culture & Society E-Special Issue on John Urry

Posted on July 1, 2016 by stuartelden

The Theory, Culture & Society E-Special Issue on John Urry, edited and introduced by Mimi Sheller, is now available. This e-special issue of Theory, Culture & Society presents key works published by the late British Sociologist John Urry (1946-2016) in … Continue reading →

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Agamben’s Philosophical Lineage – forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press

Posted on July 1, 2016 by stuartelden

Agamben’s Philosophical Lineage, edited by Adam Kotsko and Carlo Salzani – forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press. Early stages of work, but the contents and contributors are here.

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Books received – Shakespeare, Bourus, Vickers

Posted on July 1, 2016 by stuartelden

A pile of books for the Shakespeare work – including Terri Bourus’s Young Shakespeare’s Young Hamlet in recompense for review work, and Brian Vickers’s The One King Lear to review.

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Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment

Posted on June 29, 2016 by stuartelden

Out shortly is Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment. Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for the link. Foucault in Iran centers on the significance of Foucault’s writings on the Iranian Revolution and the profound mark it left … Continue reading →

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Genius of the Modern World – BBC documentaries on Marx and Nietzsche

Posted on June 28, 2016 by stuartelden

Genius of the Modern World – BBC documentaries on Marx and Nietzsche, presented by Bettany Hughes.

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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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