Category Archives: People

Craig Dionne, Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene – forthcoming from Punctum

Posted on August 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Craig Dionne, Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene – forthcoming from Punctum later this year. Part scholarship, part journalism, part ecological screed, this book may read like a mashup of critical perspectives. Like other current investigations into the ecological … Continue reading →

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Foucault: The Birth of Power update 1 – initial work and another visit to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Posted on August 10, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s Last Decade is now in production. Over the past couple of weeks I have turned in earnest to the book on the earlier period, entitled Foucault: The Birth of Power. The initial work on this book was taking all … Continue reading →

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Gastón Gordillo on The Insurgent Underground

Posted on August 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Very interesting piece by Gastón Gordillo on his Space and Politics blog – The Insurgent Underground.

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Peter Meusburger, Derek Gregory and Laura Suarsana (eds.) Geographies of Knowledge and Power

Posted on August 8, 2015 by stuartelden

An interesting-looking, but again expensive, collection: Peter Meusburger, Derek Gregory and Laura Suarsana (eds.) Geographies of Knowledge and Power. Interest in relations between knowledge, power, and space has a long tradition in a range of disciplines, but it was reinvigorated in the … Continue reading →

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Janae Sholtz, The Invention of a People: Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political – reviewed at NDPR

Posted on August 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Janae Sholtz, The Invention of a People: Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political – reviewed at NDPR by Antonio Calcagno. The topic sounds interesting, and the review notes that Sholtz discusses Kostas Axelos’s work as a way of developing Heidegger’s … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault’s Collège de France Lectures (1970-1984): 13 Years at the Collège, 13 Seminars at Columbia

Posted on August 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault’s Collège de France Lectures (1970-1984): 13 Years at the Collège, 13 Seminars at Columbia Seyla Benhabib, Homi Bhabha, Judith Butler, Veena Das, François Ewald, Didier Fassin, James Faubion, Nancy Fraser, Frédéric Gros, Daniele Lorenzini, Nancy Luxon, Achille Mbembe, Paul … Continue reading →

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Ian Hacking’s Collège de France courses online

Posted on August 7, 2015 by stuartelden

This was news to me – Ian Hacking’s Collège de France courses, where he held the Chaire de philosophie et histoire des concepts scientifiques between 2001-2006, are online at his website.

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Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On – The Galleries of Justice, Nottingham, 11-12 Sept 2015

Posted on August 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Further details and programme for this conference – I’ll be giving the opening plenary talk on the recently published Théories et institutions pénales course. Places are free but limited and registration is required. Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On Friday … Continue reading →

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Books received – Shakespeare’s history plays, ‘Shakespeare’? and Yacobi

Posted on August 4, 2015 by stuartelden

Some books for the Shakespeare project, including the disputed Edward III, and Haim Yacobi’s new book, Israel and Africa: A Genealogy of Moral Geography, sent by the publisher on Haim’s request. I began reading Haim’s book as soon as it arrived – … Continue reading →

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Pip Thornton – ‘The meaning of light: seeing and being on the battlefield’

Posted on August 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Pip Thornton’s paper  “The meaning of light: seeing and being on the battlefield” has been published in Cultural Geographies. This paper was part of the sessions on ‘Terrain‘ Gastón Gordillo and I organised at the AAG earlier this year. Derek Gregory … Continue reading →

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