Category Archives: People

Stuart Hall obituary in History Workshop Journal

Posted on April 4, 2015 by stuartelden

History Workshop Journal has an obituary for Stuart Hall, written by Geoff Eley (requires subscription). Last year I compiled an incomplete list of obituaries and tributes.

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David Farrell Krell, Phantoms of the Other: Four Generations of Derrida’s Geschlecht – published and review forthcoming

Posted on April 3, 2015 by stuartelden

David Farrell Krell, Phantoms of the Other: Four Generations of Derrida’s Geschlecht has recently been published. Features a reconstruction of an unfinished text by Jacques Derrida from his most penetrating series of readings of Heidegger’s philosophy. During the 1980s Jacques Derrida … Continue reading →

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Princeton University Library Acquires Jacques Derrida’s Personal Library

Posted on April 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Princeton University Library Acquires Jacques Derrida’s Personal Library – news story here. The Princeton University Library is very pleased to announce the acquisition of the personal working library of Jacques Derrida… Derrida’s library, consisting of about 13,800 published books and … Continue reading →

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Books received – journals, Foucault-related books, and New Geographies 06

Posted on March 31, 2015 by stuartelden

The last of the books and journals received while I was away in Melbourne. Liberté, Libertés is a collection by Robert Badinter with a preface by François Mitterand. Foucault discusses this in a 1977 interview which was published shortly after his death (and … Continue reading →

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Society and Space open access highlight papers updated

Posted on March 28, 2015 by stuartelden

The ‘highlights’ section of the Environment and Planning D: Society and Space website has been updated. Several recent papers are now available open access – including pieces by Giorgio Agamben, Henri Lefebvre, Bruce Braun, Melissa Wright, Katharyne Mitchell, Sarah Elwood, Matthew Gandy…

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The Uncollected Foucault – further updates to texts available and requests

Posted on March 27, 2015 by stuartelden

This site’s list of Foucault’s uncollected notes, lectures and interviews has been updated again. One which took a bit of locating was a text supposedly under the title ‘Pour la défense libre’, prepared in late 1979 for a 1980 meeting of lawyers.  The … Continue reading →

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Fanatical counter-histories – A conversation with Alberto Toscano and Gisle Selnes

Posted on March 27, 2015 by stuartelden

Fanatical counter-histories – A conversation with Alberto Toscano and Gisle Selnes at Eurozine. The philosopher Alberto Toscano visited Bergen on 29 November 2014 to participate in the seminar “Fanaticism, Extremism, Radicalism”, organized by the research group Radical Philosophy and Literature … Continue reading →

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Diacritics theme issue on Jean-Luc Nancy

Posted on March 27, 2015 by stuartelden

Diacritics theme issue on Jean-Luc Nancy – 42.4 from 2014 Thanks to Peter Gratton for the link.

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Judith Butler bibliography online

Posted on March 26, 2015 by stuartelden

When Praxis Becomes Unbearable – a bibliography of Judith Butler’s work. I am sharing this with whoever cares in the work of this philosopher and in this sort of research endeavor. This is all the work of Judith Butler I … Continue reading →

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Jenny Edkins, Face Politics – coming in April

Posted on March 26, 2015 by stuartelden

Jenny Edkins, Face Politics is forthcoming in April. I was one of the readers and provided an endorsement. The face is central to contemporary politics. In Deleuze and Guattari’s work on faciality we find an assertion that the face is … Continue reading →

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