Category Archives: People

Slavoj Žižek – Hegelian Battles – 3 Lectures

Posted on December 13, 2015 by stuartelden

Slavoj Žižek – Hegelian Battles – audio recordings of Birkbeck lectures from December 2015. The battle for Hegel goes on – new interpretations are emerging which perhaps pose an even greater threat to Hegel’s legacy than the usual rejections of Hegel. … Continue reading →

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Elemental Ecocriticism – Thinking with Earth, Air, Water and Fire

Posted on December 13, 2015 by stuartelden

Elemental Ecocriticism – Thinking with Earth, Air, Water and Fire – now out from University of Minnesota Press, edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert. Brings to ecotheory and the environmental humanities the challenges and possibilities offered by thinking … Continue reading →

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Biopower: Foucault and Beyond – edited by Cisney and Morar

Posted on December 9, 2015 by stuartelden

A new collection now out – Biopower: Foucault and Beyond – edited by Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar. Contains essays by Revel, Negri, Patton, Mills, Hacking, Mendieta, Stoler, Rabinow, Rose, Esposito… Michel Foucault’s notion of “biopower” has been a … Continue reading →

Posted in Ann Laura Stoler, Antonio Negri, Eduardo Mendieta, Ian Hacking, Michel Foucault, Roberto Esposito, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Books received – Shakespeare, Sperlinger, Zurn and Dilts

Posted on December 9, 2015 by stuartelden

A couple of volumes of the Penguin Shakespeare series, Tom Sperlinger’s Romeo and Juliet in Palestine: Teaching Under Occupation, and Perry Zurn and Andrew Dilts’s collection Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition. I provided an endorsement of Active … Continue reading →

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Review essay on Foucault’s The Punitive Society published at Historical Materialism

Posted on December 8, 2015 by stuartelden

My review essay on Foucault’s La société punitive (now translated as The Punitive Society) has been published at Historical Materialism. The article requires subscription, but a preprint is here.

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Giorgio Agamben, The Use of Bodies – available to pre-order

Posted on December 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Giorgio Agamben, The Use of Bodies – available to pre-order. Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer was one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. It was also the beginning of a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope, … Continue reading →

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Foucault: The Birth of Power update 8 – working at the IMEC archive and another visit to the Bibliothèque Nationale

Posted on December 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Since I returned from my last visit to Paris, I had one week back in England where I gave a couple of talks on Shakespeare. One was on ‘The Majesty and Territories of King John’ at UCL’s Institute of Advanced … Continue reading →

Posted in Foucault's Last Decade, Foucault: The Birth of Power, Michel Foucault, Shakespearean Territories, Territory, William Shakespeare | 2 Comments

Antipode Intervention on Lefebvre – “Towards a Metaphilosophy of the Urban” by Andy Merrifield

Posted on December 4, 2015 by stuartelden

Antipode Intervention – “Towards a Metaphilosophy of the Urban” by Andy Merrifield. This piece discusses Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy, forthcoming in English translation with Verso. I suspect I’m not the only one thrilled by the prospect of seeing Henri Lefebvre’s great philosophical tract, Métaphilosophie, … Continue reading →

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Video: David Harvey Interview: Life & Thought

Posted on December 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Interview: Life & Thought 30 July 2015 ENFF, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Lau Kin Chi and Sit Tsui Jade interviewed David Harvey about his childhood, his studies, his work on Marx’s Capital, and his involvement in social movements. via Video: David Harvey … Continue reading →

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11 Critical Theory books that came out in November

Posted on December 2, 2015 by stuartelden

11 Critical Theory books that came out in November – another useful roundup at critical-theory.com. Butler, Evans, Goldsmith, Repo, Meiksins Wood, Badiou, Zaretsky, Zurn and Dilts, Negri, Llewelyn

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