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RSC trailer for Henry IV parts I and II

Posted on February 21, 2014 by stuartelden

More details here; and the RSC’s poll on Shakespeare’s greatest play here.

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Johanna Oksala, Foucault, Politics, and Violence reviewed at NDPR

Posted on February 21, 2014 by stuartelden

Johanna Oksala, Foucault, Politics, and Violence is reviewed at NDPR by Chloë Taylor.

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Martin McQuillan – Friends with Benefits: Shakespeare, Marx and Derrida – audio recording

Posted on February 19, 2014 by stuartelden

Martin McQuillan – Friends with Benefits: Shakespeare, Marx and Derrida – audio recording. The Kingston Shakespeare Seminar (KiSS) brings leading Shakespeare scholars to the Rose, which the director Peter Hall created to be a “teaching theatre”. Here Sir Peter directed … Continue reading →

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A question for German and Italian Foucault scholars

Posted on February 19, 2014 by stuartelden

A question that I hope someone can help with. For the German and Italian translations of Foucault’s History of Sexuality Volume I, Foucault wrote a new preface. This appears in Dits et écrits as text number 190, but as a retranslation into French … Continue reading →

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Arlette Farge, The Allure of the Archives – translated into English

Posted on February 18, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve just discovered that Arlette Farge’s book Le Goût de l’archive was translated into English and was published last year as The Allure of the Archive. Farge worked with Foucault on the lettres de cachet collection Le désordre des families – also being translated … Continue reading →

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Essays by and on Stuart Hall – open access from Cultural Studies

Posted on February 14, 2014 by stuartelden

[update 6 May 2015 – it appears these texts are no longer open access] A number of essays by or on Stuart Hall have been made open access by Taylor & Francis – available here. They are mainly taken from Cultural … Continue reading →

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Talks on Foucault’s La société punitive in Melbourne – 3 and 4 March 2014

Posted on February 14, 2014 by stuartelden

In addition to the talks on The Birth of Territory (details here); I’ll be giving talks on Foucault’s La société punitive at Monash University on 3 March 2014, 11am (Clayfield Room A1. 34, Caufield Campus – map here); and at the University of Melbourne on … Continue reading →

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Badiou: the Althusserian Definition of Theory – audio recording

Posted on February 13, 2014 by stuartelden

The audio recording of Badiou’s recent lecture ‘The Althusserian Definition of Theory’ is available here.

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“Zizek’s Jokes” – in book form

Posted on February 13, 2014 by stuartelden

MIT Press are publishing a book of Žižek’s Jokes. “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”—Ludwig Wittgenstein The good news is that this book offers an entertaining but enlightening compilation of Žižekisms. Unlike any other … Continue reading →

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William Shakespeare presents – Terminator the Second

Posted on February 13, 2014 by stuartelden

Terminator II using Shakespearean texts: Thanks to Volha Piotukh for sending this to me.

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