Category Archives: People

Books received – Nietzsche, Sloterdijk, Han, Saramago, Shakespeare, Couture, Dardot and Laval

Posted on November 4, 2015 by stuartelden

A mix of books recently received. Nietzsche’s Le livre du philosophe, Sloterdijk’s Stress and Freedom, Han’s The Transparency Society and The Burnout Society, Saramago’s The Notebook, the Penguin Macbeth, Jean-Pierre Couture’s book on Sloterdijk (which I endorsed), and Dardot and Laval’s The … Continue reading →

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Eyal Weizman, “Forensic Architecture” video of 2015 Wall Exchange lecture at UBC

Posted on November 4, 2015 by stuartelden

Eyal Weizman, “Forensic Architecture” video of 2015 Wall Exchange lecture UBC (via Derek Gregory’s Geographical Imaginations.) Can architecture provide new tools of political analysis and intervention? This question is central to the work of Eyal Weizman, Israeli architect and scholar. … Continue reading →

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Foucault and Visual Art- links and resources at Heterotopian Studies

Posted on November 4, 2015 by stuartelden

The Heterotopian Studies site has a useful resource page on ‘Foucault and Visual Art‘, providing links to images which Foucault discusses, along with a bibliography. As well as the obvious – Magritte, Picasso, Velázquez – it also has links to Foucault’s … Continue reading →

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Pierre Macherey, ‘The Productive Subject’ in Viewpoint magazine

Posted on November 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Pierre Macherey, ‘The Productive Subject‘ in Viewpoint magazine – an interesting discussion of Foucault’s relation to Marx. [Update: a French version is here]

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Remembering Edward Soja (1940-2015)

Posted on November 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Murray Low has passed on the sad news of the death of Edward Soja. I first heard him talk on Postmodern Geographies in 1995 – this would have been work that ended up in Thirdspace – and the talk really motivated … Continue reading →

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‘The Territories and Majesty of Shakespeare’s King John’ – talks at Warwick 3 November and UCL 23 November

Posted on November 2, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ll be giving a talk with the title of ‘The Territories and Majesty of Shakespeare’s King John’ twice over the next couple of weeks. This lecture will discuss Shakespeare’s play King John around two themes – the question of majesty and … Continue reading →

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Books received – Shakespeare, de Lagasnerie, Derrida, Harper and Bryers

Posted on November 2, 2015 by stuartelden

The Penguin edition of Henry IV, Part One, Geoffrey de Lagasnerie’s L’art de la revolt: Snowden, Assange, Manning, Derrida’s Séminaire: La peine de la mort II (2000-2001), and Tom Harper and Tim Bryars, A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps.

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David Farrell Krell, Ecstasy, Catastrophe: Heidegger from Being and Time to the Black Notebooks reviewed at NDPR

Posted on November 2, 2015 by stuartelden

David Farrell Krell’s Ecstasy, Catastrophe: Heidegger from Being and Time to the Black Notebooks is reviewed at NDPR. This latest book by the distinguished scholar, translator, and author David Farrell Krell is a compilation of three different texts. Part I presents … Continue reading →

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Which philosopher would fare best in a present-day university?

Posted on November 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Which philosopher would fare best in a present-day university? – a discussion in The Guardian by Lloyd Strickland. If you know Lloyd’s work – which I do – then the answer is not surprising…

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Foucault’s Last Decade – working on the proofs

Posted on October 28, 2015 by stuartelden

The proofs for Foucault’s Last Decade have now arrived, so I need to make time to work on them. The Polity webpage for the book is still incomplete, but you can read much more about the book here. I’m also working … Continue reading →

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