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Books received 4 – various: Meillassoux, Trawny, Eco, Butler, Krell, Naas, Funambulist papers, journals

Posted on June 1, 2015 by stuartelden

And everything else that was in the pile of post as I returned from the US. Umberto Eco’s How to Write a Thesis; Quentin Meillassoux’s Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction; Peter Trawny’s Freedom to Fail: Heidegger’s Anarchy; The Funambulist Papers Volume 2 (in which … Continue reading →

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Books received 2 – various things for the Foucault projects

Posted on June 1, 2015 by stuartelden

Books received – various things for the Foucault projects, including the new lecture course, background on May 68 and the abortion rights struggle in France, one of Foucault’s major sources on the revolt of the Nu-pieds, and a book about his … Continue reading →

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Books received – review work for Routledge: Marcuse, Pugliese, Valverde, Barry and Born, and Parker

Posted on June 1, 2015 by stuartelden

Books received in recompense for review work for Routledge: Marcuse, Pugliese, Valverde, Barry and Born, and Parker.

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Alberto Toscano and Jeff Klinke, Cartographies of the Absolute – now out from Zero books

Posted on May 31, 2015 by stuartelden

While I’d linked to some preparatory material, I hadn’t realised this was now out. Thanks to Adam David Morton for the link. Alberto Toscano and Jeff Klinke, Cartographies of the Absolute from Zero books. Can capital be seen? Cartographies of the … Continue reading →

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Judith Butler, Notes towards a Performative Theory of Assembly – forthcoming from Harvard UP

Posted on May 30, 2015 by stuartelden

Judith Butler, Notes towards a Performative Theory of Assembly – forthcoming from Harvard University Press. Thanks to Derek Gregory for the alert. Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions, analyzing what they signify and … Continue reading →

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Where should you start with reading Peter Sloterdijk? – reading guide updated

Posted on May 29, 2015 by stuartelden

Where should you start with reading Peter Sloterdijk? I updated my guide to Henri Lefebvre yesterday, and have now updated the guide to Sloterdijk – there are two new translations coming out later this year – Stress and Freedom and In the Shadow of Mount Sinai – as … Continue reading →

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Last Call for Abstracts: MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory (2015)

Posted on May 28, 2015 by stuartelden

Last Call for Abstracts MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, 1-3 September 2015 ‘Resistance and Power beyond Foucault’ Convener: Guilel Treiber, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven (Guilel.Treiber@hiw.kuleuven.be) The nature of political power is changing. The state is no longer the only, or … Continue reading →

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La pensée marxiste et la ville reviewed by Łukasz Stanek in Journal of Architecture

Posted on May 28, 2015 by stuartelden

Lefebvre’s La pensée marxiste et la ville – forthcoming in translation from University of Minnesota Press – is reviewed by Łukasz Stanek in The Journal of Architecture (open access).

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Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre? – reading guide updated with news of forthcoming translations

Posted on May 28, 2015 by stuartelden

My guide Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre? has been updated with news of forthcoming translations – Metaphilosophy, Marxist Thought and the City, and the rural essay in Antipode.

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Lefebvre’s 1956 essay ‘The Theory of Ground Rent and Rural Sociology’ forthcoming in Antipode, with introduction by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton

Posted on May 27, 2015 by stuartelden

Update: pieces are now available: Henri Lefebvre, The Theory of Ground Rent and Rural Sociology : Contribution to the International Congress of Sociology, Amsterdam, August 1956, translated by Matthew Dennis, edited by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton Stuart Elden and Adam David … Continue reading →

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