Category Archives: People

The original source for Foucault’s Pierre Rivière collaborative project

Posted on March 25, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve long known that Foucault and his colleagues discovered the case of Pierre Rivière in Annales d’hygiène publique et de médecine légale, during the seminar of his first year of his work at the Collège de France. This particular case so fascinated … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault and Fons Elders – a preparatory interview for the Chomsky debate

Posted on March 25, 2014 by stuartelden

I’d not seen this before – fifteen minutes of video in preparation for the Chomsky debate between Foucault and Fons Elders. Thanks to Sjoerd van Tuinen and Elena Loizidou for sharing this. Update: Jeremy Crampton has more news on this … Continue reading →

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Understanding the City: Henri Lefebvre and Urban Studies

Posted on March 24, 2014 by stuartelden

Understanding the City: Henri Lefebvre and Urban Studies – a collection edited by Gülçin Erdi-Lelandais (via here). Henri Lefebvre is undoubtedly one of the most influential thinkers in the field of urban space and its organization; his theories offer reflections still valid for … Continue reading →

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Garcia, Johnston, Bryant – Speculative Realism book introductions online

Posted on March 24, 2014 by stuartelden

Edinburgh University Press has posted the introductions to three books in the Speculative Realism series edited by Graham Harman: Tristan Garcia’s Form and Object (here), Adrian Johnston’s Adventures in Transcendental Materialism (here), and Levi Bryant’s Onto-Cartography (here). Thanks to New APPS and Levi’s Larval Subjects blog … Continue reading →

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David Harvey, Seventeen Contradictions… – introduction available online

Posted on March 24, 2014 by stuartelden

David Harvey’s latest, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism is out in April 2014; the introduction is available online. More information here.

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Nietzsche – Beyond Good and Evil / On the Genealogy of Morality

Posted on March 20, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
The next volume of the Stanford University Press Nietzsche translations will be Volume 8, Beyond Good and Evil / On the Genealogy of Morality, translated by Adrian del Caro. Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for the…

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Michael Dillon’s Groningen Lecture on Modes of Reasoning video

Posted on March 20, 2014 by stuartelden

Mick Dillon’s lecture ‘The Courage of Truth’ – the inaugural Groningen lecture on Modes of Reasoning, though as Luis Lobo-Guerrero says in his introduction, and as Mick develops, the lectures link back to a series of lectures given by Karl Jaspers – … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on March 19, 2014 by stuartelden

Two of the three volumes of Heidegger’s Schwarze Hefte; an issue of Critique from a couple of years ago that has a review essay of Terror and Territory; and the new issues of TCS and Area.

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Materiali Foucaultiani – a tri-lingual journal and resource site

Posted on March 18, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve known about this site for a while, but not sure I’ve posted about it before. Materiali Foucaultiani is an online, tri-lingual (Italian-French-English) journal and website concerning Foucault. As well as the journal, there is a lot of information on … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s La Société punitive – audio recordings of Melbourne lectures

Posted on March 17, 2014 by stuartelden

These are the audio recordings of the two talks I gave on Foucault’s La Société punitive earlier this month – at Monash University and University of Melbourne. The Monash talk has definitely the better recording quality; the Melbourne one was … Continue reading →

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