Category Archives: People

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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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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