Category Archives: People

David Harvey, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

Posted on March 8, 2014 by stuartelden

David Harvey’s latest book, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, will be published in early April. Following on from The Enigma of Capital, the world’s leading Marxist thinker explores the hidden workings of capital and reveals the forces that will … Continue reading →

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Speaking styles and speaking spaces

Posted on March 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Having given four talks over the past two weeks – two on The Birth of Territory and two on the Foucault’s Last Decade project – I thought I’d write a little about the different spaces I spoke in, and how these change … Continue reading →

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A translation of the first lecture of Foucault’s Du gouvernement des vivants

Posted on March 7, 2014 by stuartelden

While looking for the source of a Rosa Luxembourg quote Foucault mentions, I found this translation of the first lecture of Du gouvernement des vivants (January 9th 1980). The publication of the official translation has been delayed until September, so for those with … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s 1980-81 course Subjectivité et vérité projected for May 2014 publication

Posted on March 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Foucault’s 1980-81 course Subjectivité et vérité is listed for May 2014 publication on Amazon.fr. These dates have been pushed back for several other courses, so take with some caution. It doesn’t yet appear on the Seuil page.

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Derrida, The Death Penalty reviewed in LARB

Posted on March 6, 2014 by stuartelden

Derrida’s The Death Penalty Volume I is reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books by Jan Mieszkowski. Thanks to those who sent me the link to this.

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Two more pieces on Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’

Posted on March 5, 2014 by stuartelden

Two more pieces on Heidegger’s controversial ‘Black Notebooks’ at the Chronicle and Critical Animal. The first of the three volumes of these notebooks – Überlegungen II-VI (Schwarze Hefte 1931-1938) – has now been published.

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“About the Concept of the ‘Dangerous Individual’ in Legal Psychiatry of the 19th Century” – details of variant English and French texts

Posted on March 1, 2014 by stuartelden

A couple of months ago [update: in January 2014], I asked three minor questions concerning Foucault’s ‘About the Concept of the Dangerous Individual’ lecture in Toronto in 1977. is the version in Dits et écrits the original French, or a re-translation with an … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre recordings – three audio; one [now two] videos

Posted on March 1, 2014 by stuartelden

I didn’t know about these before – three audio recordings of Lefebvre. The first from 1975 is the most wide-ranging; the second is a brief discussion from 1970 that discusses La fin de l’histoire; and the third is on space. There is … Continue reading →

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Derrida Seminar Translation Project – details of published and forthcoming French and English volumes

Posted on March 1, 2014 by stuartelden

The Derrida Seminar Project has lots of information on the books in both French and English. Four volumes have been published so far in French: 1. Séminaire: La Béte et le souverain volume I (2001-2002), edited by Michel Lisse, Marie-Louise Mallet, … Continue reading →

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Jean-Luc Nancy discussion at Birkbeck cancelled – but paper available to download

Posted on February 28, 2014 by stuartelden

The discussion with Jean-Luc Nancy at Birkbeck, scheduled for next week, has unfortunately been cancelled due to illness. The paper that was due to be discussed is available here.

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