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Kostas Axelos, Introduction to a Future Way of Thought: On Marx and Heidegger – out in June 2015 from Meson Press

Posted on June 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Kostas Axelos, Introduction to a Future Way of Thought: On Marx and Heidegger – out in June 2015 from Meson Press. The book was translated by Kenneth Mills, and edited and introduced by me. It will be open access online … Continue reading →

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Major conference on Foucault at the Collège de France, Cerisy-la-Salle 11-18 June 2015

Posted on June 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Major conference on Foucault at the Collège de France, Cerisy-la-Salle 11-18 June 2015, with lots of good speakers including Judith Revel and Pierre Macherey. Les leçons de Michel Foucault au Collège de France, prononcées entre 1971 et 1984, constituent une somme … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault, Toscano and Kinkle, Edkins, Keighren, Withers and Bell

Posted on June 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Travels into Print: Exploration, Writing and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859, sent by the publisher; Jenny Edkins, Face Politics, which I endorsed; Toscano and Kinkle’s Cartographies of the Absolute; the first and second editions of Foucault’s Naissance de la clinique (1963 and … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare and Waste – audio recordings of the seminar at Kingston University

Posted on June 6, 2015 by stuartelden

Shakespeare and Waste – audio recordings of the seminar at Kingston University. Kingston Shakespeare Seminar (KiSS), part of the London Graduate School, announces the launch of Kingston Shakespeare Seminar in Theory (KiSSiT): a series of seminars and conferences for postgraduate … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s 1983 seminar at Berkeley – tracing the people in the ‘cowboy hat’ photograph

Posted on June 5, 2015 by stuartelden

In Didier Eribon’s biography of Foucault, there is a picture of Foucault in a cowboy hat, together with Paul Rabinow and some students at Berkeley. The hat was a gift from the students. This group met in parallel with the … Continue reading →

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Philosophy, Politics, and History in the Thought of Gramsci, 18-19 June 2015. King’s College London

Posted on June 5, 2015 by stuartelden

Philosophy, Politics, and History in the Thought of Gramsci, 18-19 June 2015. King’s College London.

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Babette Babich, “Heidegger’s Black Night: The Nachlass & its Wirkungsgeschichte” on academia.edu

Posted on June 5, 2015 by stuartelden

Babette Babich, “Heidegger’s Black Night: The Nachlass & its Wirkungsgeschichte” on academia.edu – another essay from the forthcoming collection Ingo Farin and Jeff Malpas, eds., Reading Heidegger’s Black Notebooks 1931-1941 (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2016).

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Martin Heidegger’s 1934-35 course Hölderlin’s Hymns “Germania” and “The Rhine” reviewed at NDPR by Richard Polt

Posted on June 5, 2015 by stuartelden

The translation of Martin Heidegger’s 1934-35 lecture course Hölderlin’s Hymns “Germania” and “The Rhine”, is reviewed at NDPR by Richard Polt. The translators are William McNeill and Julia Ireland, also responsible for the translation of Heidegger’s course on Hölderlin’s Hymn ‘The Ister’. Polt confronts the … Continue reading →

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Review essay of Michel Foucault, Théories et institutions pénales: Cours au Collège de France 1971-1972 at Berfrois

Posted on June 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Update September 2025: the Berfrois site is now closed and the archive has been removed. My piece can now be found here. My review essay of Michel Foucault, Théories et institutions pénales: Cours au Collège de France 1971-1972, edited by … Continue reading →

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Books received 4 – various: Meillassoux, Trawny, Eco, Butler, Krell, Naas, Funambulist papers, journals

Posted on June 1, 2015 by stuartelden

And everything else that was in the pile of post as I returned from the US. Umberto Eco’s How to Write a Thesis; Quentin Meillassoux’s Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction; Peter Trawny’s Freedom to Fail: Heidegger’s Anarchy; The Funambulist Papers Volume 2 (in which … Continue reading →

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