Category Archives: People

Alberto Toscano, The Intolerable-Inquiry: The Documents of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons

Posted on February 7, 2015 by stuartelden

This isn’t new, but I’d not seen this 2013 piece before – Alberto Toscano’s review of “The Intolerable-Inquiry: The Documents of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons” in Viewpoint. We are for­tu­nate to now have in a French edi­tion a … Continue reading →

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Leibniz on the geography of flooding in Annals of Science, with commentary by Lloyd Strickland and Michael Church

Posted on February 6, 2015 by stuartelden

A previously unpublished letter by Leibniz on the geography of flooding has been published in Annals of Science with a commentary by Lloyd Strickland and Michael Church. Lloyd is a leading Leibniz scholar and Michael is one of the few physical geographers I know with … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Les mots et les choses at 50 – conference at Harvard

Posted on February 5, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s Les mots et les choses at Year 50: An International Conference – Friday, April 17, 2015, 12:00pm to Saturday, April 18, 2015, 6:30pm, The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, sponsored by History and Theory. Vincent Descombes is the keynote speaker. This … Continue reading →

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Louis Althusser et nous – Le magazine littéraire interviews with Balibar, Rancière et. al.

Posted on February 5, 2015 by stuartelden

To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Lire Capital and Pour Marx,  Le magazine littéraire interviews Balibar, Rancière, Lévy and Milner. It also announces two forthcoming volumes of previously-unpublished material.

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Interview with Bruno Latour from Festival of Ideas in Valparaíso, Chile

Posted on February 3, 2015 by stuartelden

In November 2014, Bruno Latour was in Chile for a Festival of Ideas in Valparaíso and was interviewed by Patricia Junge, Colombina Schaeffer and Leonardo Valenzuela. The interview is available in Spanish and English – Issuu and PDF. Thanks to Colombina for … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s The Punitive Society – forthcoming in English in June 2015

Posted on February 1, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s 1973 lectures On The Punitive Society are forthcoming in English in June August 2015. I have a review of the French text at Berfrois (open access); and a review essay forthcoming in Historical Materialism (preprint here). These thirteen lectures on the ‘punitive … Continue reading →

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Books on Lefebvre in English – why are six of ten with Routledge?

Posted on February 1, 2015 by stuartelden

By my count, there are ten eleven books on Henri Lefebvre in English. Six of these are with Routledge – Shields, Merrifield, Goonewardena et. al., Butler, Middleton and Coleman – and four five with other publishers – Burkhard, Elden, Fraser, Stanek [and Stanek et. al.]. … Continue reading →

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Grégoire Chamayou – A Theory of the Drone published and excerpt available

Posted on January 30, 2015 by stuartelden

The translation of Grégoire Chamayou’s A Theory of the Drone is now published. An excerpt is available open access at Asymptote. Derek Gregory discussed the original French version of this book extensively on his Geographical Imaginations site. You can read my … Continue reading →

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Neoliberalism + Biopolitics – Conference at Berkeley, 27-28 Feb 2015 – with Balibar, Brown, Harcourt, Mbembe…

Posted on January 29, 2015 by stuartelden

Neoliberalism + Biopolitics – Conference at Berkeley, 27-28 Feb 2015. Speakers include Étienne Balibar, Wendy Brown, Bernard Harcourt, and Achille Mbembe… Over the past two decades neoliberalism and biopolitics have emerged as essential terms for critical theorists of all stripes attempting to analyze ongoing … Continue reading →

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Franco Moretti on Lukács’s Theory of the Novel – Centenary Reflections

Posted on January 27, 2015 by stuartelden

Franco Moretti on Lukács’s Theory of the Novel – Centenary Reflections, in New Left Review (open access).

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