Category Archives: People

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 →

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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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Top ten posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on July 27, 2014 by stuartelden

Special Issue on Ranciere What is neoliberalism? Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 12 Bruno Latour – Some advantages of the notion of “Critical Zone” for Geopolitics Guattari, Felix 2012 Schizoanalytic Cartographies, reviewed by Thomas Jellis Foucault’s Last Decade Peter Sloterdijk, … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Bruno Latour, Eduardo Mendieta, Felix Guattari, Foucault's Last Decade, Michel Foucault, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Territory | 2 Comments

Bruno Latour – Some advantages of the notion of “Critical Zone” for Geopolitics

Posted on July 26, 2014 by stuartelden

An intriguing short piece by Bruno Latour – ‘Some advantages of the notion of “Critical Zone” for Geopolitics’ – available to download from his website. Abstract: The relatively new concept of “critical zones”, much like that of the “Anthropocene”, signals … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault Lexicon, Lefebvre on Architecture, etc.

Posted on July 25, 2014 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre’s Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment; Alberto Manguel’s The Library at Night; Janet Ruane’s Essentials of Research Methods; Bernard Pivot, Ecrire, Lire et en Parler (which contains the French version of a Foucault interview that is not in Dits et Écrits); the new issues of Theory, … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 12

Posted on July 24, 2014 by stuartelden

After what has felt like a long break from working on this book, I’ve begun writing again. Some of this was during a recent trip to Ghana. The first part of Chapter Six looks at the collaborative projects Foucault was involved … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Felix Guattari, Foucault's Last Decade, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Writing | 3 Comments

Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life reviewed by Eduardo Mendieta

Posted on July 16, 2014 by stuartelden

Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life reviewed by Eduardo Mendieta at NDPR.

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Robert T. Tally Jr. – Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism

Posted on July 15, 2014 by stuartelden

Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism by Robert Tally, newly published in the Marxism and Culture Series at Pluto Press: Fredric Jameson is the most important Marxist critic in the world today. While consistently operating at the cutting edge of literary and … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s legacy: an interview with Frédéric Gros

Posted on July 15, 2014 by stuartelden

Foucault’s legacy: an interview with Frédéric Gros at the Verso blog, a translation of an interview originally in Le Monde.

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