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Colin Gordon reviews the Cambridge Foucault Lexicon in History of the Human Sciences

Posted on July 27, 2016 by stuartelden

Colin Gordon reviews The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon in History of the Human Sciences (requires subscription). I hope a preprint will appear on Colin’s academia.edu page soon. It’s a very detailed review of a huge work, covering a wide range of … Continue reading →

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Reading Marx in 1965; Reading Althusser et. al. and Lefebvre in 2016 at the Verso blog

Posted on July 27, 2016 by stuartelden

I have a short piece at the Verso blog, entitled ‘Reading Marx in 1965; Reading Althusser et. al. and Lefebvre in 2016’. Some of the most important works of post-war French Marxism were published in 1965. Louis Althusser’s For Marx … Continue reading →

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Foucault, the Archive and the Writing of Intellectual History – audio of lecture

Posted on July 26, 2016 by stuartelden

At the end of June I gave the plenary lecture to my Warwick department’s annual conference. It was entitled ‘Foucault, the Archive and the Writing of Intellectual History’, and discussed the writing of the two books Foucault’s Last Decade and … Continue reading →

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Review of Foucault, Language, Madness and Desire in Cultural Geographies

Posted on July 26, 2016 by stuartelden

My brief review of Michel Foucault, Language, Madness, and Desire: On Literature, translated by Robert Bonnano, is now available in the new issue of Cultural Geographies. The review requires subscription, but a preprint is available here.

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Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy: “There Is No West Anymore” in Huffington Post

Posted on July 19, 2016 by stuartelden

Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy: “There Is No West Anymore”. Thanks to dmfant for the link.

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‘Critical Histories of the Present’, Spindel conference, University of Memphis, 16-17 September 2016

Posted on July 19, 2016 by stuartelden

My next visiting talk – and my first overseas talk in over a year – will be at ‘Critical Histories of the Present‘, the 35th Spindel conference, University of Memphis, 16-17 September 2016. My talk is under the title of ‘Foucault and … Continue reading →

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Neil Smith, “The Concepts of Devaluation, Valorization and Depreciation in Marx: Towards a Clarification”

Posted on July 19, 2016 by stuartelden

Neil Smith’s essay, “The Concepts of Devaluation, Valorization and Depreciation in Marx: Towards a Clarification”, is published in Human Geography. Don Mitchell provides a great introduction, discussing why the piece was never published in Smith’s lifetime. You can download the … Continue reading →

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Bruno Latour interview on India and Gaia-politics

Posted on July 18, 2016 by stuartelden

Bruno Latour interview on India and Gaia-politics – thanks to Kai Friese for the link.

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The Brexit Crisis: A Verso Report – free ebook

Posted on July 13, 2016 by stuartelden

The Brexit Crisis: A Verso Report – free ebook ‘Let’s Take Back Control’ was the slogan that won the UK’s EU Referendum. But what did those words mean to campaigners and voters? Control of what was being wrested from whom … Continue reading →

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Books received – Shakespeare, Heidegger & Jünger, Leshem, Shuger

Posted on July 11, 2016 by stuartelden

A couple of books for the Shakespeare work, Leshem’s The Origins of Neoliberalism, the Heidegger-Jünger correspondence, the new issue of Radical Philosophy, and the copy of India Today with my piece on the EU referendum (open access here).

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