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Babette Babich – The Hallelujah Effect

Posted on February 25, 2015 by stuartelden

Babette Babich’s book The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology is now available at a much-discounted price. This book studies the working efficacy of Leonard Cohen’s song Hallelujah in the context of today’s network culture. Especially as recorded … Continue reading →

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Richard Polt translates some more excerpts from Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’

Posted on February 24, 2015 by stuartelden

Richard Polt translates some more excerpts from Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ for critical-theory.com For why I’m not saying more, see last week’s post – Why I’m not writing or speaking about Heidegger’s Black Notebooks (except here)

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Territory from Shakespeare to Geo-politics – abstract for my lecture at University of New South Wales

Posted on February 24, 2015 by stuartelden

Territory from Shakespeare to Geo-politics 10th March, 4pm, School of Humanities and Languages, University of New South Wales This lecture will introduce the work I have been doing on the question of territory over the past several years, leading to two … Continue reading →

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Simeon Wade (ed.) Chez Foucault – the 1978 fanzine with a 1976 interview with Foucault

Posted on February 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Back in December I posted about an elusive publication which contained a 1976 discussion with Foucault which appeared in Chez Foucault, Los Angeles: Circabook, 1978, pp. 4-22. While this text is translated into French for Dits et écrits (online here), I wanted to find … Continue reading →

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Jean-Luc Nancy and Heidegger’s Black Notebooks

Posted on February 23, 2015 by stuartelden

In addition to the pieces linked a few days ago, this news from Philippe Theophanidis: An audio recording of a lecture Jean-Luc Nancy’s gave back in October 2014 just surfaced on the web. The title of the lecture is “Die Banalität … Continue reading →

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Ralph Miliband, Class War Conservatism, with preface by Tariq Ali (part available online)

Posted on February 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Class War Conservatism: And Other Essays by Ralph Miliband, Introduction by Tariq Ali – the introduction is partly available in The Guardian. When, in 2013, the Daily Mail labeled Ralph Miliband “The Man Who Hated Britain,” a diverse host rallied to his defense. Those who had worked … Continue reading →

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Operational Landscapes: Towards an Alternative Cartography of World Urbanization – Neil Brenner exhibition at University of Melbourne

Posted on February 23, 2015 by stuartelden

The MSD Dean’s Lecture Series 2015 presents an exhibition by the Urban Theory Lab (directed by Neil Brenner): Operational Landscapes: Towards an Alternative Cartography of World Urbanization – Tuesday, 17 March 2015 – 9:00am to Friday, 3 April 2015 – 5:00pm, ALKF Gallery, University … Continue reading →

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Foucault – Qu’est-ce que la critique? Suivie de La culture de soi – new book forthcoming

Posted on February 20, 2015 by stuartelden

Vrin are publishing a new collection of Foucault’s work – Qu’est-ce que la critique? Suivie de La culture de soi. This is two lectures – one from May 1978 and one from April 1983. The first was on Kant, and was published posthumously (and … Continue reading →

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Why I’m not writing or speaking about Heidegger’s Black Notebooks (except here)

Posted on February 19, 2015 by stuartelden

As many readers of this blog will know, I’ve been posting various bits of news about Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ over the past year or so. In that time I’ve been asked to speak on Heidegger at events in the UK … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Foucault's Last Decade, Henri Lefebvre, Mapping the Present, Michel Foucault, Politics, Publishing, Speaking Against Number, Terror and Territory, The Birth of Territory, Understanding Henri Lefebvre | 5 Comments

Contesting the Arctic: Rethinking Politics in the Circumpolar North by Philip E. Steinberg, Jeremy Tasch, Hannes Gerhardt

Posted on February 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Contesting the Arctic: Rethinking Politics in the Circumpolar North by Philip E. Steinberg, Jeremy Tasch and Hannes Gerhardt has been published by I.B. Tauris. As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty … Continue reading →

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