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Call for Papers: Philadelphia Summer School in Continental Philosophy with John Caputo

Posted on May 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Call for Papers: Philadelphia Summer School in Continental Philosophy – Topic: “Continental Philosophy of Religion and the New Metaphysics” (featuring seminars on the work of Quentin Meillassoux, Ray Brassier, Bruno Latour, and Catherine Malabou) Seminar Leader: John Caputo Saturday, August 9th, … Continue reading →

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David Harvey, Megacities Lecture 4: Possible Urban Worlds – pdf online

Posted on May 1, 2014 by stuartelden

In 2000 David Harvey gave the Megacities Lecture 4: Possible Urban Worlds Twynstra Gudde Management Consultants, Amersfoort, The Netherlands, 2000). It’s the one key text of Harvey’s that I didn’t already know, partly because it doesn’t appear to be on sale … Continue reading →

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Saskia Sassen, ‘Expulsions: Complexity and Brutality’ – lectures at Durham, LSE and Dublin

Posted on May 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Saskia Sassen’s Expulsions is forthcoming in June 2014. Saskia Sassen, “Expulsions: Complexity and Brutality” – lecture at Durham University in February 2014 (via ANTHEM). Update: a lecture at the LSE on the same topic is available here (via The Anthropo.scene] And one … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Politics, Saskia Sassen, Territory | 3 Comments

Foucault Studies 17 now out – Foucault and Deleuze

Posted on April 30, 2014 by stuartelden

A special issue on Foucault and Deleuze, edited by Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail, Daniel W. Smith, and including essays by William Connolly and Dianna Taylor; plus unconnected articles and a large number of reviews.

Posted in Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, William E Connolly | 4 Comments

Seeing the secret state with Trevor Paglen

Posted on April 30, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on War Law Space:
Earlier this week I blogged about Trevor Paglen’s new work over at Intercept, and now Joseph Lee (via Gab Olah) send news of a talk Paglen gave at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin last…

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E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left

Posted on April 30, 2014 by stuartelden

  E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left: Essays and Polemics by E. P. Thompson; edited by Cal Winslow – out in June with Monthly Review Press. More details and endorsements at the site – here’s the blurb. E. P. Thompson … Continue reading →

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Urban theory without an outside: Neil Brenner

Posted on April 30, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
This has been online for a few weeks, but now made time to watch it – a very helpful lecture by Neil Brenner outlining the work of the Harvard Urban Theory Lab and his edited collection Implosions/Explosions. This, and other … Continue reading →

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Nazism and the German Academy

Posted on April 29, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Eric Schwitzgebel provides a translation to the preface of a 1935 issue of the journal Kant-Studien, which shows just how much the academy (obviously not just Heidegger) rolled over Kantian and other philosophical…

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Utopia or Bust by Benjamin Kunkel – Chapter One on David Harvey free online

Posted on April 28, 2014 by stuartelden

Chapter One of Benjamin Kunkel, Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis is free to read online. It’s mainly a discussion of David Harvey’s work.

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Radical Philosophy 185 out now

Posted on April 28, 2014 by stuartelden

Radical Philosophy No 185 is out now. It has obituaries of Stuart Hall, Alberto Toscano’s discussion of Etienne Balibar, Mark Neocleous on monsters and police, a non-nationalist argument for an independent Scotland, and some pieces on Auguste Blanqui by Jacques Rancière, Daniel Bensaïd … Continue reading →

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