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Nine critical theory books from June

Posted on June 30, 2014 by stuartelden

critical-theory.com has a round-up of recently published books – Foucault, Lefebvre, Balso, Crary, etc.

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“the frustrations and the pleasures of editing”

Posted on June 29, 2014 by stuartelden

David Scott Kastan on “the frustrations and the pleasures of editing” – for him a play, but much of this works more generally: We too often think of editing as an activity that is mechanical and objective; it is neither. Even … Continue reading →

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Balibar, Equaliberty and Rancière Now reviewed at NDPR

Posted on June 29, 2014 by stuartelden

            Two interesting reviews at NDPR: Étienne Balibar, Equaliberty: Political Essays reviewed by Jonathan Joseph; and Oliver Davis (ed.), Rancière Now reviewed by Samuel A. Chambers.

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A Conversation between Stuart Elden and Babette Babich – Fordham University video

Posted on June 26, 2014 by stuartelden

A Conversation between Stuart Elden and Babette Babich A long discussion at the Fordham University television studios – ranges across my work and lots of topics, including territory today and historically, Lefebvre, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Shakespeare… Many thanks to Babette … Continue reading →

Posted in Babette Babich, Boundaries, Foucault's Last Decade, Henri Lefebvre, Mapping the Present, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Politics, Publishing, Shakespearean Territories, Speaking Against Number, Territory, Terror and Territory, The Birth of Territory, Theory, Understanding Henri Lefebvre, William Shakespeare | 2 Comments

Books received – Avila, Axelos, Bleiker, Branch, Tribe

Posted on June 25, 2014 by stuartelden

A few books received – Kostas Axelos’s final two books; Keith Tribe’s classic Land, Labour and Economic Discourse; Eric Avila, The Folklore of the Freeway; Roland Bleiker’s Aesthetics and World Politics; Jordan Branch’s The Cartographic State – and a pile of … Continue reading →

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Kostas Axelos, On Marx and Heidegger – forthcoming with Meson Press, translated by Kenneth Mills and edited by Stuart Elden

Posted on June 24, 2014 by stuartelden

As I’ve mentioned here before, in recent months I’ve edited a translation, compiled the notes, and written an introduction for a forthcoming book. The publisher is Meson Press (a new publisher based at Lüneborg University) and their website is now available, so I’m able to … Continue reading →

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Interview with Simon Critchley and excerpt from The Hamlet Doctrine in Berfrois

Posted on June 24, 2014 by stuartelden

Interview with Simon Critchley at Berfrois, plus an excerpt from his co-authored book The Hamlet Doctrine – via the Verso blog.

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Graham Burchell – Michel Foucault, La société punitive: an editorial curiosity

Posted on June 23, 2014 by stuartelden

Graham Burchell, the translator of all-but-one of Foucault’s Collège de France lecture courses, has sent me a note on small but important ‘curiosity’ in the course he is currently translating: La société punitive. I’ve put up the whole of his note in a … Continue reading →

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New issue of Parrhesia – Meillssoux, Garcia, Klossowski, Ivakhiv, Tropes of Transport etc.

Posted on June 22, 2014 by stuartelden

New issue of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy just out – includes work by Quentin Meillassoux, Tristan Garcia, Pierre Klossowski on Walter Benjamin, a review panel of Katrin Pahl’s Tropes of Transport: Hegel and Emotion, a piece by Adrian Ivakhiv on the objects-processes debate in … Continue reading →

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Barry Stocker on Foucault’s Subjectivity and Truth lecture seven

Posted on June 20, 2014 by stuartelden

Barry Stocker on Foucault’s Subjectivity and Truth lecture seven – parts one and two.

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