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New issue of ACME now out, including Neil Smith’s last conference presentation

Posted on October 7, 2015 by stuartelden

A new issue of ACME is now out, including Neil Smith’s last conference presentation (all open access). Neil Smith’s piece is entitled ‘The Future is Radically Open’, and was presented in Paris in September 2012, shortly before he died. It’s … Continue reading →

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2015 Millennium Conference, LSE, 17-18 October 2015 – Bruno Latour as keynote

Posted on October 6, 2015 by stuartelden

2015 Millennium Conference, “Failure and Denial in World Politics”, LSE, 17-18 October 2015 – more details here. Programme:  DRAFT 2015 Millennium Conference Programme Call for Papers:   2015 Millennium Conference: Failure and Denial in World Politics Conference Theme:   International relations … Continue reading →

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Slavoj Žižek mini course at Birkbeck – Hegelian Battles

Posted on October 6, 2015 by stuartelden

Slavoj Žižek mini course at Birkbeck – Hegelian Battles. December 2-4, 2015. Free for students and Birkbeck staff, £10 per lecture for others. Everyone needs to register in advance. The battle for Hegel goes on – new interpretations are emerging … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault, Brown, Golder, Ashgate, etc.

Posted on October 5, 2015 by stuartelden

A pile of recently bought, earned or complimentary books: Foucault’s The Punitive Society, Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos, Ben Golder’s Foucault and the Politics of Rights, four books in recompense for review work for Ashgate, and recent issues of Theory, Culture & Society and Transactions … Continue reading →

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History and Theory special forum on Foucault and Neoliberalism

Posted on October 5, 2015 by stuartelden

History and Theory have a special forum on Foucault and Neoliberalism (requires subscription). Thanks to Timothy Johnson and others for the alert.

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Foucault: The Birth of Power Update 4 – collaborative work and a complete draft of Chapter One on the Lectures on the Will to Know and related materials

Posted on October 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Since the last update, I’ve been working on various aspects of this project. The first was a return to some of Foucault’s collaborative projects around CERFI. Quite late in the drafting of Foucault’s Last Decade I removed most of the … Continue reading →

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Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault, The Disorder of Families – to appear in fall 2016 with University of Minnesota Press

Posted on September 30, 2015 by stuartelden

Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault, The Disorder of Families [Le Désordre des Familles] will appear in fall 2016 with University of Minnesota Press. Nancy Luxon is editing the text, and her website says there will be a companion scholarly volume – also announced … Continue reading →

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Roberto Esposito. ‘Biological Life, Political Life’, Goldsmiths, University of London, 1 Oct 2015 5pm

Posted on September 29, 2015 by stuartelden

Roberto Esposito lecture, ‘Biological Life, Political Life‘ at Goldsmiths, University of London, 1 Oct 2015 5pm.

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Foucault 2/13 – recording and materials for Columbia seminar on Penal Theories and Institutions (1971-1972) with Harcourt, Balibar, Ewald and Spivak

Posted on September 29, 2015 by stuartelden

Etienne Balibar and François Ewald discuss Foucault’s second annual lectures at the Collège de France, Penal Theories and Institutions (1971-1972)…  Please also read the introductory posts presenting the lectures along with the posts by Etienne Balibar and François Ewald, and the framing essays by Velasco and Harcourt. Readings for … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, forthcoming in February [now July] 2016 – Verso page and available to pre-order

Posted on September 28, 2015 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, translated by David Fernbach and edited and introduced by Stuart Elden, is forthcoming in February July 2016. Verso’s page for the book is now live and it is available to pre-order. In Metaphilosophy, Henri Lefebvre works through the … Continue reading →

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