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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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Journée d’étude autours de M. Foucault, “Théories et institutions pénales”, Paris 2 June 2015

Posted on May 26, 2015 by stuartelden

Thanks to Andrea Teti for sending details of this event in Paris for the new lecture course. I’m currently writing a review of it for Berfrois. Mardi 2 juin 2015, 9h – 18h “Premières lectures, premières réactions, et pistes de recherches” … Continue reading →

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English translation of Deleuze’s first seminar (1956-57): What is grounding? – open-access e-book

Posted on May 25, 2015 by stuartelden

An English translation of Deleuze’s first seminar from 1956-57, What is grounding? is available to download. The book is open access, and just needs an email address to receive the download link. A French version is online here. What is Grounding? is Gilles Deleuze’s … Continue reading →

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Andrew Barry, “Geography and Other Disciplines” – discussion of genealogy and the canon

Posted on May 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Andrew Barry has a very interesting new essay published, “Geography and Other Disciplines” – a discussion of geography and the canon. There is also an introduction to the theme issue of which this is part by Richard Powell [update: corrected from … Continue reading →

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Camilla Boano reviews Lefebvre’s Towards an Architecture of Enjoyment (requires subscription)

Posted on May 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Camilla Boano reviews Lefebvre’s Towards an Architecture of Enjoyment in The Journal of Architecture (requires subscription). The review is quite detailed, and makes use of the interview I conducted with editor Łukasz Stanek for the Society and Space open site. Good to see this … Continue reading →

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