Category Archives: People

Kyle McGee – Bruno Latour: The Normativity of Networks

Posted on January 6, 2014 by stuartelden

Kyle McGee’s Bruno Latour: The Normativity of Networks was published late last year. Looks interesting, with an examination of Latour’s legal theory. It comes with two very positive endorsements, including one from Latour himself. Great shame about the price though.

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Heidegger, race, calculation – more comments on the notebooks (in German)

Posted on January 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Some interesting discussion in Die Zeit in German (see also my previous post with links to discussion in France). Especially interesting how it links the racial thought to calculation – a major theme of his work, but especially of the posthumous writings. … Continue reading →

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Caesar Must Die – trailer and brief comments

Posted on January 2, 2014 by stuartelden

Caesar Must Die (Cesare deve morire) is a very powerful piece of cinema, now on dvd release, showing the rehearsals for a performance of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The performers are all inmates of a high-security prison in Rome, and while they do … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s ‘About the Concept of the Dangerous Individual’ lecture in Toronto in 1977 – three minor questions

Posted on January 2, 2014 by stuartelden

In 1977 Foucault gave a lecture in Toronto entitled ‘About the Concept of the ‘Dangerous Individual’ in 19th Century Legal Psychiatry’. It was published first in English in International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Vol 1 No 1, pp, 1-18. It … Continue reading →

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Radical Philosophy 183 out – includes Gregory on drones and Power on Sloterdijk

Posted on January 2, 2014 by stuartelden

The new issue of Radical Philosophy is out – includes Derek Gregory on ‘Drone Geographies‘ and a critical review of Sloterdijk by Nina Power (both open access).

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Books I’m looking forward to in 2014

Posted on January 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Some of the books I’m looking forward to this year include Henri Lefebvre, Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment (edited by Łukasz Stanek and previously unpublished in any language); Neil Brenner’s epic edited collection Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization; Mick Dillon’s Biopolitics of Security in the 21st … Continue reading →

Posted in Bob Jessop, Books, Derek Gregory, Etienne Balibar, Grégoire Chamayou, Henri Lefebvre, Jenny Edkins, Louis Althusser, Mark Neocleous, Michael Dillon, Michel Foucault, Neil Brenner, Politics, Publishing | 5 Comments

The twenty-five most important academic books to me from 2013

Posted on December 31, 2013 by stuartelden

Not ordered, not comprehensive, and I’m sure I’ve forgotten some – and of course there are those I’ve not yet read or am unaware of… These are all academic books published in 2013, not drawn from all the books I … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, David Farrell Krell, David Harvey, Grégoire Chamayou, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, John Protevi, Karl Marx, Louise Amoore, Michael Dillon, Michel Foucault, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Publishing, Universities, urban/urbanisation | 24 Comments

25 research talks in 2013 – with links to audio versions

Posted on December 31, 2013 by stuartelden

The talk in Halifax at ArcticNet was the 25th research talk in a really busy year. (Links in what follows are to audio recordings, where available). I gave talks on the Shakespearean territories project at the University of York, Aberystwyth University, Memorial University of Newfoundland … Continue reading →

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Four new Foucault books

Posted on December 30, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Open Geography:
      In addition to the Cambridge Foucault Lexicon (mentioned in my previous post, and which I should add has no less than 117 entries!), you may like to know of a few other…

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The missing question from Foucault’s ‘Confession of the Flesh’ interview – a translation

Posted on December 30, 2013 by stuartelden

While looking for something else, I discovered that the important 1977 interview ‘Le jeu de Michel Foucault’ (DE no 206, Vol II, pp. 298-329) is not completely translated as ‘The Confession of the Flesh’ in Power/Knowledge, edited by Colin Gordon … Continue reading →

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