Category Archives: People

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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Georg Lukács, Culture of People’s Democracy – Hungarian essays translated in paperback

Posted on April 27, 2014 by stuartelden

Georg Lukács, Culture of People’s Democracy: Hungarian Essays on Literature, Art, and Democratic Transition, 1945-1948 is now available in paperback, translated by Tyrus Miller. Engaged with questions of realist and modernist world-views in art, the relations of literary history to politics, and … Continue reading →

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Lawrence & Wishart and the copyright of the Marx-Engels collected works

Posted on April 26, 2014 by stuartelden

In recent days there has been debate about the copyright of the Marx-Engels collected works. Publishers Lawrence & Wishart have asked that these works are removed from the Marxist Internet Archive (story here); a petition has been started to protest … Continue reading →

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Political Theology and Modernity: The Legacy of Carl Schmitt – Lancaster 9 June 2014

Posted on April 26, 2014 by stuartelden

Political Theology and Modernity – The Legacy of Carl Schmitt Day Event at Lancaster University, Monday 9th June 2014 The Northern Theory Group in conjunction with the Journal for Cultural Research and the Politics, Philosophy and Religion Department of Lancaster University is organizing a one-day … Continue reading →

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Ian McKellan, Michael Pennington and Jeffrey Horowitz discuss Shakespeare for his 450th Birthday

Posted on April 23, 2014 by stuartelden
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