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Michel Foucault, Subjectivité et vérité – forthcoming in May 2014

Posted on March 17, 2014 by stuartelden

Seuil now have a page up for Foucault’s 1980-81 lecture course Subjectivité et vérité, with a publication date of May 2014. Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for the link. No great surprises in the publicity text, except perhaps for the explicit link … Continue reading →

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David Harvey and Andy Merrifield, London, 3 April 2014 – sold out

Posted on March 17, 2014 by stuartelden

“Contradictions of capitalism and the new urban question” – David Harvey and Andy Merrifield in conversation, Birkbeck, London, 3 April 2014. More details here. Unfortunately the website now says that there are no tickets available.

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David Farrell Krell on reading, translating and citing

Posted on March 16, 2014 by stuartelden

A note in one of David Farrell Krell’s books: I will cite Derrida’s texts throughout the book by a code letter (here, G), with the page numbers of the French and English editions. I have not used the available translations … Continue reading →

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Three new pieces on Heidegger’s Black Notebooks

Posted on March 15, 2014 by stuartelden

Three new pieces on Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ – Critical Theory; The Guardian; Jonathan Rée in Prospect. Given that these have now been published – at least, Klostermann have charged me for them, so I expect they are on their way – … Continue reading →

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Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle – new, annotated translation online and forthcoming in print

Posted on March 15, 2014 by stuartelden

Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle Newly translated and annotated by Ken Knabb Bureau of Public Secrets, 2014 ISBN 978-0-939682-06-5 150 pages. $15.00 The Society of the Spectacle, originally published in Paris in 1967, has been translated into more than … Continue reading →

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Rafael Khachaturian in Dissent on Althusser

Posted on March 14, 2014 by stuartelden

In Dissent, Rafael Khachaturian examines Althusser’s legacy.

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Books received (3 of 4)

Posted on March 11, 2014 by stuartelden

Quentin Meillassoux, Métaphysique et fiction des mondes hors-science Michel Foucault, L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi (French critical edition of 1980 lectures long available in English) Grégoire Chamayou, Les Corps vils. Expérimenter sur les êtres humains aux XVIIIe siècle et XIXe siècle – a reissue of his first … Continue reading →

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Books received (2 of 4)

Posted on March 11, 2014 by stuartelden

Henry Reynolds, The Law of the Land (a gift from Jean Hillier – a good starting point for the issue of indigenous land rights in Australia, read on the plane home) Nikos Papastergiadis, Ambient Perspectives Nikos Papastergiadis, Cornelius Castoriadis – this and the … Continue reading →

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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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