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My review of David Farrell Krell, Phantoms of the Other: Four Generations of Derrida’s Geschlecht in Derrida Today

Posted on May 10, 2016 by stuartelden

My review of David Farrell Krell, Phantoms of the Other: Four Generations of Derrida’s Geschlecht, Albany: State University of New York, 2015 has now been published in Derrida Today (open access) or try here if that doesn’t work.

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Books received – Shakespeare, Sartre, Neocleous, TCS, Gabrys, Foucault

Posted on May 9, 2016 by stuartelden

A pile of books received – three second-hand books for the Shakespeare work, Jean-Paul Sartre’s What is Subjectivity?, Mark Neocleous’s The Universal Adversary, the new issue of Theory, Culture & Society, Jennifer Gabrys’s Program Earth, and the 2004 special issue … Continue reading →

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Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography, 18-19-20 May 2016 programme

Posted on May 9, 2016 by stuartelden

The next Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography will be held at the University of Warwick on 19-20 May, 2016, with a screening and discussion of Sur les toits the evening before. The topic of this year’s conference is: “(Dis)Assembling state spaces: Conceptualising … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – now available worldwide

Posted on May 9, 2016 by stuartelden

Foucault’s Last Decade is now available worldwide – I’ve been getting a few messages to say that copies in North America are now being received. You can order direct from Polity’s distributor Wiley and, of course, other online retailers. Thank you to … Continue reading →

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Books received – Salter, Carrigan, Rossi, Chandler & Reid, and Shakespeare

Posted on April 29, 2016 by stuartelden

A pile of recently received books – Mark Salter’s Making Things International 2, Mark Carrigan’s Social Media for Academics, Andrea Rossi’s The Labour of Subjectivity, David Chandler & Julian Reid’s The Neoliberal Subject, and three second-hand books for the Shakespeare work. The … Continue reading →

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Foucault: The Birth of Power Update 14 – receiving the reader reports, and working on Farge and Foucault, Le désordre des familles

Posted on April 28, 2016 by stuartelden

I now have the two reader reports on Foucault: The Birth of Power, which are overwhelmingly positive about the manuscript. But I still have a bit of work to do revising it. I aim to complete the revisions in the … Continue reading →

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Hamlet: three productions and three texts

Posted on April 27, 2016 by stuartelden

I’ve now seen Hamlet five times in the last year, and three times in the last five weeks. Last year I saw Peter Sarsgaard in New York and Benedict Cumberbatch at the Barbican in London (my thoughts here and here). … Continue reading →

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A weekend of Shakespeare – the Globe-to-Globe Hamlet and Kings of War

Posted on April 26, 2016 by stuartelden

Most people will have noticed, especially those in the UK, that last weekend was a celebration of the work of Shakespeare – 400 years since his death (and 452 since his birth if the dates do indeed coincide). Many thanks for all … Continue reading →

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Peter Sloterdijk, Spheres III: Foams – forthcoming in September 2016

Posted on April 25, 2016 by stuartelden

The third and final volume of Peter Sloterdijk’s Spheres, Foams, is forthcoming in September 2016 from Semiotext(e). Foams completes Peter Sloterdijk’s celebrated Spheres trilogy: his 2,500-page “grand narrative” retelling of the history of humanity, as related through the anthropological concept of the “Sphere.” For … Continue reading →

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Kanthropology – CRMEP Graduate Conference 19-20 May 2016

Posted on April 22, 2016 by stuartelden

Kanthropology – CRMEP Graduate Conference, Kingston University, 19-20 May 2016 “The mainstream marginalization of Kant’s anthropological writings, in part due to their racist content, arguably makes philosophy ill-equipped to think some of today’s most pressing concerns, notably with regard to … Continue reading →

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