Category Archives: People

Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle – new, annotated translation online and forthcoming in print

Posted on March 15, 2014 by stuartelden

Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle Newly translated and annotated by Ken Knabb Bureau of Public Secrets, 2014 ISBN 978-0-939682-06-5 150 pages. $15.00 The Society of the Spectacle, originally published in Paris in 1967, has been translated into more than … Continue reading →

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Rafael Khachaturian in Dissent on Althusser

Posted on March 14, 2014 by stuartelden

In Dissent, Rafael Khachaturian examines Althusser’s legacy.

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Books received (3 of 4)

Posted on March 11, 2014 by stuartelden

Quentin Meillassoux, Métaphysique et fiction des mondes hors-science Michel Foucault, L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi (French critical edition of 1980 lectures long available in English) Grégoire Chamayou, Les Corps vils. Expérimenter sur les êtres humains aux XVIIIe siècle et XIXe siècle – a reissue of his first … Continue reading →

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Books received (2 of 4)

Posted on March 11, 2014 by stuartelden

Henry Reynolds, The Law of the Land (a gift from Jean Hillier – a good starting point for the issue of indigenous land rights in Australia, read on the plane home) Nikos Papastergiadis, Ambient Perspectives Nikos Papastergiadis, Cornelius Castoriadis – this and the … Continue reading →

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Books received (1 of 4)

Posted on March 11, 2014 by stuartelden

As I’ve been away for eight weeks, there was a small mountain of post waiting me in the office. This is the first of four posts listing what arrived. a new copy of Heidegger’s Basic Writings. My old copy is falling … Continue reading →

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Peggy Kamuf interviewed on Jacques Derrida’s Death Penalty Seminars

Posted on March 11, 2014 by stuartelden

At the Los Angeles Review of Books, translator Peggy Kamuf is interviewed about Jacques Derrida’s The Death Penalty Volume I. This is a companion piece to the review by Jan Mieszkowski I linked to a few days ago.

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Bruno Latour, An Inquiry into Modes of Existence reviewed at NDPR

Posted on March 11, 2014 by stuartelden

Bruno Latour, An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns is reviewed at NDPR.

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Tenth update

Posted on March 9, 2014 by stuartelden

I’m now about to leave Melbourne. Since the last update on this book, I’ve completed a draft of Chapter Five – which now includes the material from the old Chapter Six – and as a consequence is much too long. … Continue reading →

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Bruno Latour, On some of the affects of capitalism – text available online

Posted on March 8, 2014 by stuartelden

The text of Latour’s lecture given at the Royal Academy, Copenhagen, 26th of February, 2014 is available to read online. This and many more texts are also available on his website.

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The first volume of Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ reviewed in German

Posted on March 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Markus Gabriel discusses the first volume of Heidegger’s controversial ‘Black Notebooks’ – Überlegungen II-VI (Schwarze Hefte 1931-1938) – in Die Welt. Thanks to Marijn for the alert in comments to an earlier post.

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