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Books received – Shakespeare and Heidegger

Posted on February 7, 2016 by stuartelden

Some recently acquired books – various Shakespeare plays, a second-hand copy of John Julius Norwich’s Shakespeare’s Kings, and Guillaume Payen’s new biography Martin Heidegger: Catholicisme, révolution, nazisme, which I picked up in Paris.

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Books interview: David Harvey in Times Higher Education

Posted on February 7, 2016 by stuartelden

Books interview: David Harvey in Times Higher Education – Eliot, Shakespeare, Dickens and, of course, Marx. Thanks to dmf for the link.

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A Selection of the Works of Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942-2016)

Posted on January 29, 2016 by stuartelden

Verso have made available a list of open-access work by Ellen Meiksins Wood, who died recently. Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942-2016) was a Marxist historian and political thinker of enormous significance. We are proud to publish many of her books and, in order … Continue reading →

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CFP Third Warwick Graduate Conference on Political Geography 19-20 May 2016

Posted on January 25, 2016 by stuartelden

Please consider submitting a paper for the next Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography, held at the University of Warwick on 19-20 May, 2016. The topic of this year’s conference is: “(Dis)Assembling state spaces: Conceptualising geometries of power” and confirmed … Continue reading →

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Jeroen Vandaele on translations of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir

Posted on January 20, 2016 by stuartelden

Jeroen Vandaele, ‘What is an author, indeed: Michel Foucault in translation‘, Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, Vol 24 No 1, 2016, pp. 76-92 (requires subscription). A very interesting piece which discusses translations of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir with lots of examples and comparisons. Though … Continue reading →

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 11: clearing the decks and beginning to move from Foucault to Shakespeare

Posted on January 19, 2016 by stuartelden

The UCL talk last week was the last one in the diary until September – a very deliberate choice to open up some time that needed quite a bit of forward-planning to achieve. I might do one or two book … Continue reading →

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Foucault and the Groupe Information Santé – a bibliography

Posted on January 19, 2016 by stuartelden

Foucault’s involvement with the Groupe d’Information sur les prisons is fairly well-known, with important collections of documentary material published in French, a forthcoming English translation of material, and a growing secondary literature in French and English. His involvement with the Groupe … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory’s ‘Reach from the Sky’ Tanner lectures

Posted on January 19, 2016 by stuartelden

Last week I took the short trip from London to Cambridge to attend Derek Gregory’s Tanner lectures – ‘Reach from the sky: aerial violence and the everywhere war’. The lectures covered a lot, from early aircraft to the Second World … Continue reading →

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Foucault and the Politics of Health: Collaborative research and activism – audio recording of UCL talk

Posted on January 18, 2016 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my talk of 12 January 2016 to the Geography Department seminar, University College London is now available here. The introduction is by Tariq Jazeel. “Foucault and the Politics of Health – Collaborative research and activism” Concentrating … Continue reading →

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Books received – several more for the Foucault work, including the new Œuvres

Posted on January 15, 2016 by stuartelden

Several books for the Foucault project, most picked up second-hand and relating to the work of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons, but also the new Œuvres and the Vrin edition of the Kant introduction along with Foucault’s translation of the text. On … Continue reading →

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