Category Archives: People

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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Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou

Posted on March 22, 2015 by stuartelden

Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou, edited by Brenna Bhandar and Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller. Catherine Malabou’s concept of plasticity has influenced and inspired scholars from across disciplines. The contributors to Plastic Materialities—whose fields include political philosophy, critical legal studies, social … Continue reading →

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Being Social: Ontology, Law, Politics – first book from Counterpress

Posted on March 20, 2015 by stuartelden

Being Social: Ontology, Law, Politics, edited by Dan Matthews and Tara Mulqueen. Being Social brings together leading and emerging scholars on the question of sociality in poststructuralist thought. The essays collected in this volume examine a sense of the social which resists … Continue reading →

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‘Contested Spaces of Citizenship’ Postgraduate Conference, 29th April 2015, Durham University

Posted on March 19, 2015 by stuartelden

Programme for upcoming ‘Contested Spaces of Citizenship’ Postgraduate Conference on Wednesday 29th April 2015 at Durham University, with Engin F. Isin as the key-note speaker. All those planning to attend should email g.d.m.maestri@durham.ac.uk to confirm.

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