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David Farrell Krell, Ecstasy, Catastrophe: Heidegger from Being and Time to the Black Notebooks reviewed at NDPR

Posted on November 2, 2015 by stuartelden

David Farrell Krell’s Ecstasy, Catastrophe: Heidegger from Being and Time to the Black Notebooks is reviewed at NDPR. This latest book by the distinguished scholar, translator, and author David Farrell Krell is a compilation of three different texts. Part I presents … Continue reading →

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Which philosopher would fare best in a present-day university?

Posted on November 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Which philosopher would fare best in a present-day university? – a discussion in The Guardian by Lloyd Strickland. If you know Lloyd’s work – which I do – then the answer is not surprising…

Posted in Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Publishing, Universities, Writing | 2 Comments

Foucault’s Last Decade – working on the proofs

Posted on October 28, 2015 by stuartelden

The proofs for Foucault’s Last Decade have now arrived, so I need to make time to work on them. The Polity webpage for the book is still incomplete, but you can read much more about the book here. I’m also working … Continue reading →

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Two US talks in fall 2016 – Spindel conference in Memphis; Early Modern Literary Geographies conference in San Marino

Posted on October 27, 2015 by stuartelden

After five talks in November, I will have a nice gap in my schedule of visiting talks. Part of the thinking is that I need some time to write so that I have something new to say… The talks I’ve … Continue reading →

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Critical Reflections on Multispatial Metagovernance: video of Bob Jessop’s 2015 Territory, Politics, Governance Lecture

Posted on October 27, 2015 by stuartelden

Critical Reflections on Multispatial Metagovernance: video of Bob Jessop’s 2015 Territory, Politics, Governance Lecture

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Bruno Latour, Face à Gaia – French publication of Gifford lectures to precede English version

Posted on October 26, 2015 by stuartelden

Bruno Latour, Face à Gaia – French publication of Gifford lectures to precede English version. All the news at his site.

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David Harvey, The Ways of the World – new collection forthcoming in February 2016

Posted on October 23, 2015 by stuartelden

David Harvey, The Ways of the World – new collection forthcoming in February 2016 [not 2015, sorry]. David Harvey is one of most famous Marxist intellectuals in the past half century, as well as one of the world’s most cited … Continue reading →

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 5 – more on his collaborative work and drafting Chapter Two on Théories et institutions pénales

Posted on October 21, 2015 by stuartelden

Most of the most recent work on this book project has been on the section of Chapter Two discussing the Nu-Pieds revolts. An analysis of these, and the repression that follows, takes up the first seven lectures of Théories et … Continue reading →

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Today’s writing task – beginning work on a preface to Henri Lefebvre’s Marxist Thought and the City

Posted on October 20, 2015 by stuartelden

Today’s writing task – beginning work on a preface to Henri Lefebvre’s Marxist Thought and the City, forthcoming in late 2016 with University of Minnesota Press.

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Books received – Duménil and Lévy, Massumi, Nietzsche, Clark, Shakespeare, Comité d’action santé, Langlois

Posted on October 17, 2015 by stuartelden

A pile of recently acquired books – Dumenil and Levy’s The Crisis of Neoliberalism, Brian Massumi’s Ontopower, Friedrich Nietzsche’s Writing from the Early Notebooks, Timothy Clark, Ecocriticism on the Edge, the Penguin edition of Shakespeare’s Richard II, Comité d’action santé, … Continue reading →

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