Category Archives: People

Henri Lefebvre, La pensée marxiste et la ville – forthcoming in translation

Posted on April 24, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ve previously said that Lefebvre’s Métaphilosophie will appear in English translation in 2016 with Verso. Another translation will also appear next year – La pensée marxiste et la ville, with University of Minnesota Press. This follows from their previous publications of his work – The … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 21: a second book on The Birth of Power

Posted on April 23, 2015 by stuartelden

There have been some major changes to the project since the last update. I’ve held back this post until the situation was clearer. When I initially proposed the Foucault’s Last Decade book to Polity, it was to have an opening … Continue reading →

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Edmund White’s memories of Michel Foucault

Posted on April 20, 2015 by stuartelden

Edmund White’s memories of Michel Foucault in The Telegraph. Not normally a paper I’d link to, but… I have White’s book on Jean Genet and his novel Caracole in my ‘to read’ piles…

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Association of American Geographers conference in Chicago – Ebola, Terrain and Lauren Berlant’s Society and Space lectures

Posted on April 19, 2015 by stuartelden

You’ll have to get up early to see me present at the Association of American Geographers conference in Chicago next week. Both sessions are at 8am. 21 April 2015, “The Multiple Geographies of Ebola”, as part of a panel session on (Geo)politics … Continue reading →

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Books received – Peck and Theodore, Mauriac, Krell, Drischler

Posted on April 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Books received – Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore’s Fast Policy in recompense for review work; another volume of Claude Mauriac’s memoirs for the Foucault project; David Farrell Krell’s Phantoms of the Other to review; and two papers on Leibniz sent by … Continue reading →

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Jeff Malpas, On the Reading of Heidegger – Situating the Black Notebooks

Posted on April 16, 2015 by stuartelden

Jeff Malpas, “On the Reading of Heidegger – Situating the Black Notebooks” at academia.edu. This is the draft introduction to a forthcoming collection on the Notebooks, co-edited with Ingo Farin. Thanks to Enowning for the link. Peter Gratton comments at … Continue reading →

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Interview with Saskia Sassen at Figure/Ground

Posted on April 16, 2015 by stuartelden

A brief interview with Saskia Sassen at Figure/Ground, mainly on teaching and changing technologies.

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Volha Piotukh, Biopolitics, Governmentality and Humanitarianism: ‘Caring’ for the Population in Afghanistan and Belarus

Posted on April 16, 2015 by stuartelden

Volha Piotukh, Biopolitics, Governmentality and Humanitarianism: ‘Caring’ for the Population in Afghanistan and Belarus. This book critically analyses the changing role and nature of post-Cold War humanitarianism, using Foucault’s theories of biopolitics and governmentality. It offers a compelling and insightful … Continue reading →

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Discussion of the work of Franco Moretti in New Rambler Review

Posted on April 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Discussion of the work of Franco Moretti in New Rambler Review.

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The Function of Criticism at the Present Time – on the work of Lauren Berlant

Posted on April 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Interesting piece in the LA Review of Books, “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time“, which looks at the work of Lauren Berlant. Berlant will be giving the Society and Space lecture at the Association of American Geographers meeting … Continue reading →

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