Category Archives: People

Généalogie des équipements de normalisation: Les équipements sanitaires – one of Foucault’s collaborative projects

Posted on August 22, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve been looking for a copy of this study for a while – Généalogie des équipements de normalisation: Les équipements sanitaires – and then a couple of copies turned up on-line in good condition and for a reasonable price. I … Continue reading →

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Upcoming talks – Harvard, Groningen, Basel

Posted on August 22, 2014 by stuartelden

I have three visiting lectures coming up over the next couple of months. In mid-September, I’ll be speaking at a conference on ‘Identity, Sovereignty, and Global Politics in the Building of Baghdad: From Revolution through the Gulf War and Beyond‘ at … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Foucault's Last Decade, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Neil Brenner, Politics, Shakespearean Territories, Territory, Terror and Territory, Travel, urban/urbanisation, William Shakespeare | 3 Comments

Books received – Foucault’s collaborative projects, Essential Foucault and Dealing with Darwin

Posted on August 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Apart from David N. Livingstone’s Dealing with Darwin, these are all for the Foucault’s Last Decade project – The Essential Foucault and some books/reports related to his work with CERFI. I’ll say more about these in a subsequent post.

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Reading guides to Lefebvre and Sloterdijk in English updated

Posted on August 21, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve made some minor updates to my reading guides: Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre? Where to start with reading Peter Sloterdijk?

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Seminar with Eduardo Mendieta, Birkbeck 11 – 12 September 2014

Posted on August 21, 2014 by stuartelden

Critical Legal Thinking has details of a two-day seminar with Eduardo Mendieta in September. He will be talking on ‘Decolonizing Epistemologies’ and then involved in two seminars, on the work of Cornel West and on Post-human rights.

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Adam Kotsko, Agamben translator, on ‘The experience of translating’

Posted on August 21, 2014 by stuartelden

Adam Kotsko, one of the key recent Agamben translators, reflects on ‘The experience of translating‘. I particularly appreciated the work of filling in the references and notes to texts in English. Here’s the first paragraph – well-worth a read, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Giorgio Agamben, Publishing, Writing | 1 Comment

David N. Livingstone, Dealing with Darwin

Posted on August 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Thanks to dmfant for the link to this – missed it when published earlier this year. David N. Livingstone, Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution, Johns Hopkins University Press. Using place, politics, and rhetoric as … Continue reading →

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Folgerpedia – a new resource for Shakespeare studies

Posted on August 4, 2014 by stuartelden

A resource from the Folger Shakespeare Library – Folgerpedia. Thanks to Ron Sexton for the link.

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Heidegger’s Black Notebooks: Philosophy, Politics, Anti-Semitism

Posted on August 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Heidegger’s Black Notebooks: Philosophy, Politics, Anti-Semitism, Emory University, September 5-6, 2014 Speakers: Peter Trawny (Bergische Universität Gesamthochschule Wuppertal) Bettina Bergo (Université de Montréal) Robert Bernasconi (Pennsylvania State University) Martin Gessmann (Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach am Main) Sander Gilman (Emory University) Peter E. … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Eduardo Mendieta, Martin Heidegger | 3 Comments

Ed Cohen on The Productive Body and La société punitive in the LARB

Posted on July 28, 2014 by stuartelden

Ed Cohen reviews Francois Guéry and Didier Deleule’s The Productive Body and Foucault’s La société punitive in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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