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Jacques Derrida’s early essay on Shakespeare’s idea of Kingship – ‘Quite unintelligible’

Posted on April 12, 2015 by stuartelden

This page of an assignment by Jacques Derrida on Shakespeare is quite wonderful. He would have been 19-20 years old, while in a khâgne class – post-school, pre-university. While the teacher’s comment that some of this is ‘quite unintelligible’ is very funny; … Continue reading →

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Catherine Malabou 2015 Wellek Lectures – “Metamorphoses of Intelligence”

Posted on April 11, 2015 by stuartelden

Catherine Malabou will give the 2015 Wellek Lectures on May 20-22. The topic is “Metamorphoses of Intelligence”. The Critical Theory Institute at UC Irvine presents the Wellek Library Lectures, featuring Catherine Malbou. Malabou will be giving three lectures on “Metamorphoses of Intelligence.” … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy – forthcoming in 2016 from Verso with introduction by Stuart Elden

Posted on April 10, 2015 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre’s fundamental book Métaphilosophie is forthcoming in translation in Spring 2016 from Verso. It will have an introduction from me. Further details when available. I’ve long wanted this book to be translated – hopefully as the first of a few of … Continue reading →

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Jacques Derrida, Les arts de l’espace: Ecrits et interventions sur l’architecture

Posted on April 10, 2015 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Les arts de l’espace: Ecrits et interventions sur l’architecture.  Après Penser à ne pas voir qui réunissait les principaux textes de Jacques Derrida sur le dessin, la peinture et la photographie, voici l’ensemble de s’es réflexions sur l’architecture. … Continue reading →

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The Funambulist Papers Volume 2 – print on demand and open access e-book

Posted on April 10, 2015 by stuartelden

The Funambulist Papers Volume 2, edited by Léopold Lambert is now available as print on demand and open access e-book from Punctum Books. I have an essay in it, along with Derek Gregory, Gastón Gordillo, Grégoire Chamayou, Erin Manning, Elena Loizidou and many others. … Continue reading →

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Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution

Posted on April 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution – recently published by Zone Books. Neoliberal rationality — ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, and culture — remakes everything and everyone in the image of homo oeconomicus. … Continue reading →

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Books received – Connolly, Rickels, Sartre, Casey

Posted on April 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Some more books from UMP – older books by Connolly, Rickels, Sartre and Casey.

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Books received – GIA, Derrida, Vora, Lorimer, le Doeuff, Braver, Transactions

Posted on April 8, 2015 by stuartelden

  Publications by the Groupe Information Asiles and Groupe Information Santé; Derrida’s Cinders, Vora’s Life Support, Lorimer’s Wildlife in the Anthropocene, le Doeuff’s Hipparchia’s Choice; Braver’s Heidegger; and the new issue of Transactions. The UMP books and the Braver are … Continue reading →

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Heidegger, National Socialism and the editing of the Gesamtausgabe

Posted on April 7, 2015 by stuartelden

The Daily Nous reported a story about the editing of the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe a few days ago. The initial story was that some things – politically highly charged – had been deleted or changed in the editing of the texts. … Continue reading →

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Alix Cohen (ed.), Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology – reviewed at NDPR

Posted on April 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Alix Cohen (ed.), Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology: A Critical Guide is reviewed at NDPR. Here’s the publisher description. Kant’s lectures on anthropology, which formed the basis of his Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798), contain many observations on human … Continue reading →

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