Category Archives: People

Foucault’s Heterotopia and Benjamin’s Arcade Project – a discussion by Peter Johnson

Posted on June 15, 2015 by stuartelden

“Heterotopia and Benjamin’s Arcade Project” – a discussion by Peter Johnson at Heterotopian Studies. I have been asked whether I think there is any productive link between heterotopia and Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project. I went back to Benjamin’s inspirational book … Continue reading →

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David Farrell Krell, Phantoms of the Other: Four Generations of Derrida’s Geschlecht reviewed at NDPR

Posted on June 15, 2015 by stuartelden

David Farrell Krell, Phantoms of the Other: Four Generations of Derrida’s Geschlecht reviewed at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews by N. Gabriel Martin. My own review of this great book is forthcoming with Derrida Today.

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Editing Henri Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy – doing his endnotes properly

Posted on June 12, 2015 by stuartelden

Over the last few weeks I’ve been editing the translation of Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy for Verso. Despite a very fine translation by David Fernbach, this has still taken some work. First there are the linguistic complications of a three-way language dialogue – … Continue reading →

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Étienne Balibar, Citizenship – now out with Polity

Posted on June 12, 2015 by stuartelden

Étienne Balibar, Citizenship – now out with Polity. If fundamental political categories were represented as geometric shapes, citizenship would be one of those rotating polyhedrons with reflective surfaces that together create effects of light and shade. With extraordinarily acute discernment, … Continue reading →

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Simon Springer and David Harvey debate Marxism, anarchism and Geography

Posted on June 10, 2015 by stuartelden

Simon Springer – “Why a radical geography must be anarchist“, Dialogues in Human Geography 4: 249-270 (needs subscription or available at academia.edu) David Harvey – “Listen, Anarchist!” A personal response to Simon Springer’s “Why a radical geography must be anarchist” website or pdf … Continue reading →

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Peter Kirwan on the Shakespeare Apocrypha at Warwick’s Sidelights on Shakespeare

Posted on June 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Fascinating talk at Warwick today by Peter Kirwan on “The Incomplete Works of William Shakespeare: Handling the Apocrypha“, as part of the Sidelights on Shakespeare lecture programme. The talk related to his just published book Shakespeare and the Idea of Apocrypha: Negotiating … Continue reading →

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Books received – Free Will, Shakespeare’s Storms and Discourse Theory and Political Analysis

Posted on June 9, 2015 by stuartelden

In recompense for review work for Manchester University Press – Richard Wilson, Free Will: Art and power on Shakespeare’s stage; Gwilym Jones, Shakespeare’s Storms and Discourse Theory and Political Analysis.

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Kostas Axelos, Introduction to a Future Way of Thought: On Marx and Heidegger – out in June 2015 from Meson Press

Posted on June 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Kostas Axelos, Introduction to a Future Way of Thought: On Marx and Heidegger – out in June 2015 from Meson Press. The book was translated by Kenneth Mills, and edited and introduced by me. It will be open access online … Continue reading →

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Major conference on Foucault at the Collège de France, Cerisy-la-Salle 11-18 June 2015

Posted on June 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Major conference on Foucault at the Collège de France, Cerisy-la-Salle 11-18 June 2015, with lots of good speakers including Judith Revel and Pierre Macherey. Les leçons de Michel Foucault au Collège de France, prononcées entre 1971 et 1984, constituent une somme … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault, Toscano and Kinkle, Edkins, Keighren, Withers and Bell

Posted on June 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Travels into Print: Exploration, Writing and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859, sent by the publisher; Jenny Edkins, Face Politics, which I endorsed; Toscano and Kinkle’s Cartographies of the Absolute; the first and second editions of Foucault’s Naissance de la clinique (1963 and … Continue reading →

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