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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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“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).  

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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 →

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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 →

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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.

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