Category Archives: People

Shakespeare’s Richard II by Scena Mundi at St Bartholomew the Great church

Posted on June 20, 2015 by stuartelden

Last night I went to see Shakespeare’s Richard II by Scena Mundi at St Bartholomew the Great church in London. A stunning setting and an exceptional performance. Richard II is a wonderful play and it will be the focus of a … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies 19 now out – special issue on Disability and first English translation of Foucault’s ‘Standing Vigil for the Day to Come’

Posted on June 20, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies No 19 is now out. It is mainly a special issue on Disability, but includes a number of separate essays, reviews and the first translation of Foucault’s ‘Standing Vigil for the Day to Come‘, a 1963 review essay … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, On the Punitive Society – forthcoming in translation from Palgrave

Posted on June 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, On the Punitive Society, translated by Graham Burchell, forthcoming from Palgrave – date unclear: Palgrave say June; Amazon August. Thanks to Chatham Vemuri for the link to the updated Palgrave page. These thirteen lectures on the ‘punitive society,’ delivered … Continue reading →

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King John at the Globe – the text, the Magna Carta, land and the question of territory

Posted on June 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Last night I went to see the rarely performed King John at the Globe theatre in London. The production – the last of the canonical plays to be performed at the Globe – was timed to coincide with the 800th … Continue reading →

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Kostas Axelos, Introduction to a Future Way of Thought: On Marx and Heidegger – now available open access from Meson Press

Posted on June 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Kostas Axelos, Introduction to a Future Way of Thought: On Marx and Heidegger – now published by Meson Press. The book is open access online and print-on-demand The book was translated by Kenneth Mills, and edited and introduced by me. “Technologists only … Continue reading →

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Foucault, About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980

Posted on June 17, 2015 by stuartelden

A few more details about Michel Foucault, About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980, translated by Graham Burchell, are available at the University of Chicago Press site. Much of the material in this … Continue reading →

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Geography blogs – a list, and a discussion of ‘why blog?’

Posted on June 16, 2015 by stuartelden

Sam Kinsley has compiled a list of Geographers that blog, and followed this with a post questioning their focus, an excerpt of which was: It was a surprise to me how quite a few of those blogs, with some honourable … Continue reading →

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Manuel DeLanda’s Essays on Assemblage Theory – forthcoming in the EUP Speculative Realism series

Posted on June 16, 2015 by stuartelden

Manuel DeLanda’s Essays on Assemblage Theory – forthcoming in the EUP Speculative Realism series. Graham Harman has more details, and news of a forthcoming dialogue with DeLanda.

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Journal of Architecture – various reviews of books by and on Henri Lefebvre

Posted on June 16, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned a couple of these before when online, but the latest issue of The Journal of Architecture has various review essays on books by and on Henri Lefebvre, including Rhythmanalysis, Critique of Everyday Life, and Urban Revolution Now.

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Books received – several volumes of the RSC Shakespeare from Palgrave

Posted on June 15, 2015 by stuartelden

Several volumes of the RSC Shakespeare series in recompense for review work from Palgrave Macmillan. While I prefer the Arden third series for the texts and apparatus, these editions have useful introductions, especially on performance history, so I’ve been building … Continue reading →

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