Category Archives: People

Henri Lefebvre: Rural Sociology, Ground Rent and the Politics of Land – project funding from the ISRF

Posted on March 4, 2016 by stuartelden

I’m pleased to announce that along with Adam David Morton (Political Economy, University of Sydney) I have been awarded a small grant from the Independent Social Research Foundation for the project ‘Henri Lefebvre’s writings on Rural Sociology, Ground Rent and the Politics … Continue reading →

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The Biopolitics of Birth: Michel Foucault, the Groupe Information Santé and the Abortion Rights Struggle – in Viewpoint Magazine

Posted on March 3, 2016 by stuartelden

“The Biopolitics of Birth: Michel Foucault, the Groupe Information Santé and the Abortion Rights Struggle” – in Viewpoint Magazine (open access). This is an edited excerpt from the manuscript of my book Foucault: The Birth of Power, Polity Press, forthcoming 2017. Also … Continue reading →

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Mark Neocleous, The Universal Adversary: Security, Capital and the ‘Enemies of All Mankind’ – now out with Routledge

Posted on March 3, 2016 by stuartelden

Mark Neocleous, The Universal Adversary: Security, Capital and the ‘Enemies of All Mankind’ – now out with Routledge. The history of bourgeois modernity is a history of the Enemy. This book is a radical exploration of an Enemy that has recently emerged from … Continue reading →

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Ingo Farin and Jeff Malpas (eds.) Reading Heidegger’s Black Notebooks 1931-1941 – out in late March

Posted on March 2, 2016 by stuartelden

Also on the ‘Black Notebooks’, Ingo Farin and Jeff Malpas (eds.) Reading Heidegger’s Black Notebooks 1931-1941 will be out in late March. For more than forty years, the philosopher Martin Heidegger logged ideas and opinions in a series of notebooks, known as … Continue reading →

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Donovan Irven reviews David Farrell Krell’s Ecstasy, Catastrophe: Heidegger from Being and Time to the Black Notebooks

Posted on March 2, 2016 by stuartelden

Donovan Irven reviews David Farrell Krell’s Ecstasy, Catastrophe: Heidegger from Being and Time to the Black Notebooks at Phenomenological Reviews (open access).  

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Paolo Giaccaria and Claudio Minca (ed.) Hitler’s Geographies: The Spatialities of the Third Reich

Posted on March 2, 2016 by stuartelden

Paolo Giaccaria and Claudio Minca (ed.) Hitler’s Geographies: The Spatialities of the Third Reich – shortly out from University of Chicago Press. Lebensraum: the entitlement of “legitimate” Germans to living space. Entfernung: the expulsion of “undesirables” to create empty space for German resettlement. … Continue reading →

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Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre? – minor updates to the reading guide

Posted on February 29, 2016 by stuartelden

I’ve made some very minor updates to the reading guide ‘Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre?‘ The main update is a link to with a link to Benjamin Fraser’s second book on Lefebvre – Toward an Urban Cultural Studies: Henri Lefebvre and … Continue reading →

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CFP: Foucault at 90 – 22-23 June 2016, University of West of Scotland

Posted on February 29, 2016 by stuartelden

Foucault at 90: International Conference University of the West of Scotland Ayr Campus, Scotland, UK Call for Papers This year marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of the French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-84). This interdisciplinary conference aims to reflect … Continue reading →

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Mitchell Dean – Rebel, Rebel? Revisiting the radical legacy of Michel Foucault via David Bowie (2016)

Posted on February 20, 2016 by stuartelden

Mitchell Dean, Rebel, Rebel? Revisiting the radical legacy of Michel Foucault via David Bowie, Stanford University Press blog, 19 Feb 2016 In order to understand any major thinker and their legacy, it is important to consider their context—a truism that is … Continue reading →

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Umberto Eco (1932-2016) – obituary and advice to young writers

Posted on February 20, 2016 by stuartelden

Umberto Eco has died – obituary in The Guardian. Of his novels, I loved The Name of the Rose, which I regularly reread, and also Foucault’s Pendulum. The others were more variable, but all worth the time. I’ve yet to read his … Continue reading →

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