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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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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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