Category Archives: People

“Thought is the courage of hopelessness” – interview with Giorgio Agamben

Posted on June 18, 2014 by stuartelden

“Thought is the courage of hopelessness: an interview with philosopher Giorgio Agamben” at the Verso blog (translated from a French original).  

Posted in Giorgio Agamben | 3 Comments

Richard Wolin on Heidegger’s Black Notebooks in the Jewish Review of Books

Posted on June 17, 2014 by stuartelden

Richard Wolin on Heidegger’s Black Notebooks in the Jewish Review of Books. I’m not a great enthusiast for Wolin’s work – Heidegger’s Children was insulting to some major thinkers in its title alone – but this is generally thoughtful and goes … Continue reading →

Posted in Martin Heidegger, Politics | 1 Comment

Warwick University Ltd, forty plus years on conference – video available

Posted on June 16, 2014 by stuartelden

The conference to mark the re-publication of the book Warwick University Ltd was held last Friday in the Arts Centre. It was a unique event with speakers who were students involved in the sit-in and the discovery of the secret … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, E. P. Thompson, Politics, Universities | Leave a comment

Barry Stocker on Foucault’s Lectures on Subjectivity and Truth

Posted on June 13, 2014 by stuartelden

The second part of lecture 2; the first part of lecture 3 and the second part.

Posted in Foucault's Last Decade, Michel Foucault | Leave a comment

Graham Harman’s Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political due out in October

Posted on June 12, 2014 by stuartelden

Graham Harman’s new book Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political is due out in October. Details in the Pluto catalogue (via his blog).

Posted in Bruno Latour, Graham Harman | 3 Comments

Archipelago/Funambulist Conversation between Léopold Lambert and Stuart Elden on Territory and Volume

Posted on June 9, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve linked to content on Archipelago – the podcast companion site to Léopold Lambert’s The Funambulist – before. This time it’s a discussion with me, conducted at the CUSP offices in New York, and mainly discussing my 2013 article “Secure the … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Eyal Weizman, Foucault's Last Decade, Jeremy Crampton, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Paul Virilio, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Shakespearean Territories, Travel, urban/urbanisation, William Shakespeare | 1 Comment

The work of editing – adding references to translations II

Posted on June 9, 2014 by stuartelden

In a previous post I said a bit about one of the tasks of editing a translation. I’ve now completed the Heidegger references I discussed in that previous post. The references to Hegel, Jaspers, Heraclitus, Homer, Lukács and Lenin took relatively … Continue reading →

Posted in Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Lukács, Karl Jaspers, Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, Publishing | 3 Comments

Authority and Political Technology workshop – keynote audio recordings

Posted on June 9, 2014 by stuartelden

Recordings from the recent Authority and Political Technologies workshop are now available at the Warwick website – Christian Borch, Luciana Parisi, Amade M’Charek, Louise Amoore, Costas Douzinas and AbdouMaliq Simone.

Posted in Conferences, Louise Amoore, Politics | 1 Comment

Next installments of Barry Stocker’s reading of Foucault’s Subjectivity and Truth lectures

Posted on June 9, 2014 by stuartelden

The second half of lecture 1, and the first half of lecture 2.

Posted in Michel Foucault | Leave a comment

Bambach reviews Heidegger’s 1933-34 seminars, Nature, History, State

Posted on June 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Charles Bambach reviews Heidegger’s 1933-34 seminars, Nature, History, State – translated and edited by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt – at NDPR. The volume in question comprises student protocols of the seminars, plus interpretative essays by Robert Bernasconi, Peter Eli Gordon, … Continue reading →

Posted in Martin Heidegger, Slavoj Zizek | Leave a comment