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Day one in the Foucault archive at UC Berkeley

Posted on May 4, 2015 by stuartelden

Today was my first day doing work on Foucault in the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. Alain Beaulieu wrote a useful guide to “The Foucault Archives at Berkeley”, in Foucault Studies in 2010, and much of what they have is also available … Continue reading →

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Titan Theatre Company’s all-female Othello in Queens

Posted on May 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Although I saw some remarkable theatre in late March and early April in the UK – Antigone, Death of a Salesman, Man and Superman and Clarence Darrow – it was good to get back to Shakespeare. First was the all-female Othello at the Queens Theatre, … Continue reading →

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Radical Philosophy 191 out – including pieces on data and surveillance by Chamayou and Aradau

Posted on May 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Radical Philosophy 191 out – including pieces on data and surveillance by Grégoire Chamayou and Claudia Aradau. Those pieces are currently available open access.

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Ben Golder, Foucault and the Politics of Rights – forthcoming in October 2015

Posted on May 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Ben Golder, Foucault and the Politics of Rights is forthcoming later this year with Stanford University Press. This book focuses on Michel Foucault’s late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the … Continue reading →

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Engin Isin and Evelyn Ruppert, Being Digital Citizens

Posted on May 1, 2015 by stuartelden

Engin Isin and Evelyn Ruppert, Being Digital Citizens – now out from Rowman International. Developing a critical perspective on the challenges and possibilities presented by cyberspace, Being Digital Citizens examines how we encounter and perform new sorts of rights and duties through … Continue reading →

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Laws, Economies and Territories in Richard II – audio recording of a talk at Purchase College

Posted on April 30, 2015 by stuartelden

Yesterday I went up to Purchase College, SUNY to give a talk at a workshop on Thinking with Shakespeare Today. Organised by Morris Kaplan, there were four papers: “Shakespeare and Theatrical Conversions” – Michele Osherow, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, … Continue reading →

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Sparks Will Fly: Benjamin and Heidegger – new edited collection

Posted on April 30, 2015 by stuartelden

Sparks Will Fly: Benjamin and Heidegger, edited by Andrew Benjamin and Dimitris Vardoulakis with SUNY Press. Collected essays consider points of affinity and friction between Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger. Despite being contemporaries, Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger never directly engaged with one … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Théories et institutions pénales – forthcoming in May 2015

Posted on April 27, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s 1971-72 course at the Collège de France, Théories et institutions pénales, is forthcoming in May 2015. This is the last of the courses to be published, though I understand some courses from elsewhere may appear in the future. The … Continue reading →

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#AAG2015 in Chicago – a few final thoughts

Posted on April 25, 2015 by stuartelden

Very enjoyable conference in Chicago over the last several days. I’ve said a bit about the two sessions I spoke in – on Ebola and terrain – before. It was a good conference, with some excellent papers. A particular highlight was … Continue reading →

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Althusser et. al. – Reading Capital: The Complete Edition forthcoming from Verso

Posted on April 25, 2015 by stuartelden

It’s only taken fifty years, but Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey, and Jacques Rancière’s Reading Capital: The Complete Edition is forthcoming from Verso. Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, which sought to reconstruct Western Marxism … Continue reading →

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