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New Sloterdijk Books from Polity – Stress and Freedom, In the Shadow of Mount Sinai, and Jean-Pierre Couture’s study

Posted on March 26, 2015 by stuartelden

Three new Sloterdijk books forthcoming from Polity – two little translations, Stress and Freedom and In the Shadow of Mount Sinai, and Jean-Pierre Couture’s study Sloterdijk in their Key Contemporary Thinkers series.  

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Urban Revolution Now: Henri Lefebvre in Urban Research and Architecture – audio of launch event

Posted on March 26, 2015 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre’s concepts and theoretical reflections have become widely known in the last decades. However, working with these concepts in many different contexts poses serious challenges; and in any case taking Lefebvre as a starting point for research and action … Continue reading →

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“Foucault insults the police”, photo from 1972

Posted on March 25, 2015 by stuartelden

“Foucault insults the police”, photograph by Elie Kagan from 17 January 1972, in Michel Foucault – Une journée particulière. It seems this photo was taken only moments after a much more famous one with Foucault, Deleuze and Sartre – such as appears here. The book … Continue reading →

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Books received – Chamayou, Kotef, Smirl, Shakespeare, Heidegger, Kluge and Negt

Posted on March 25, 2015 by stuartelden

Some more books – these are ones I bought, with the exception of Hagar Kotef’s Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility, which was sent by the publisher. The others include Lisa Smirl’s posthumous Spaces of Aid, Kluge … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault project

Posted on March 25, 2015 by stuartelden

Some more books for the Foucault work, including some for reference which I’ve read before, but also some others that came out recently.  

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Archive of a Radical Geographer: Neil Smith’s Papers – interview with Don Mitchell by Zoltán Glück

Posted on March 25, 2015 by stuartelden

Archive of a Radical Geographer: Neil Smith’s Papers – interview with Don Mitchell by Zoltán Glück from 2014. ZOLTÁN GLÜCK: I’d like to start by asking about what you’ve been doing here at CUNY this year. What is happening with … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault in Actes and Revue Rodeo

Posted on March 25, 2015 by stuartelden

Three issues of the journal Actes – all relating to Foucault: Nos 24-25, 54 and 73; along with the issue of Revue Rodéo from 2013 which has the previously largely-unknown 1979 interview between Foucault and Farès Sassine. That interview, originally published in … Continue reading →

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Tom Sparrow, Plastic Bodies – with preface by Catherine Malabou – in print or open access e-book

Posted on March 24, 2015 by stuartelden

Tom Sparrow’s Plastic Bodies: Rebuilding Sensation After Phenomenology, with a preface by Catherine Malabou, is available in print or as an open access e-book (via Object-Orientated Philosophy). Sensation is a concept with a conflicted philosophical history. It has found as many allies as … Continue reading →

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Umberto Eco, How to Write a Thesis – reviewed in Times Higher Education

Posted on March 23, 2015 by stuartelden

As previously mentioned, Umberto Eco’s 1977 book How to Write a Thesis now out in translation from MIT Press – it is reviewed in The Times Higher Education by Robert Eaglestone – thanks to Dean Bond for the link. Here’s the concluding … Continue reading →

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Greece and Europe: A First Account of a Radical Government – recordings of Douzinas, Mason and Žižek

Posted on March 22, 2015 by stuartelden

Greece and Europe: A First Account of a Radical Government – recordings of Costas Douzinas, Paul Mason and Slavoj Žižek. Also includes a link to this short film:

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