Category Archives: People

Foucault’s La société punitive – some initial thoughts on the first half

Posted on December 23, 2013 by stuartelden

I received Foucault’s La société punitive last week, and it was the only academic book I took with me on my Christmas trip to Ghana. As with these lecture courses generally I know I will read them several times, so … Continue reading →

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Jeremy Crampton on my ‘the political is always technical’ comment

Posted on December 19, 2013 by stuartelden

Jeremy Crampton has responded in a very interesting way to my comment that ‘the political is always technical’. I made that comment in my remarks to the ArcticNet conference last week – a summary and the audio recording are here. … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Conferences, Jeremy Crampton, Mapping the Present, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Territory, The Birth of Territory | 4 Comments

Quentin Meillassoux’s Les conditions de la contingence course – audio available

Posted on December 19, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of Quentin Meillassoux’s 2013 course ‘Les conditions de la contingence’ course is available here (via Graham Harman).

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Fifteen years ago today I submitted my PhD thesis

Posted on December 18, 2013 by stuartelden

My PhD thesis was entitled ‘Mapping the Present: Space and History in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault’ and it was submitted in December 1998 (I’m pretty sure it was on the 18th). It was examined … Continue reading →

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Tom Hiddleston as Coriolanus – a review in The Guardian

Posted on December 18, 2013 by stuartelden

Tom Hiddleston as Coriolanus is reviewed in The Guardian. The show appears to be entirely sold-out, but is being broadcast live to cinemas on January 30th 2014.

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Mike Gane interviewed by Baudrillard Studies

Posted on December 17, 2013 by stuartelden

Interesting interview with Mike Gane at Baudrillard Studies. It is especially good on the context of his early work in Sociology, reading Althusser and then Baudrillard. I knew that Lefebvre was on the jury for Baudrillard’s doctoral defence. I didn’t … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault, Anderson, Sloterdijk, Geographica Helvetica

Posted on December 17, 2013 by stuartelden

The latest Foucault lecture course La société punitive; Sloterdijk’s Nietzsche Apostle; Perry Anderson’s Lineages of the Absolutist State (the only one of my ten books that stayed with me that I didn’t actually own); and the new issue of Geographica … Continue reading →

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Christmas gifts for Critical Theorists

Posted on December 16, 2013 by stuartelden

An excellent compendium at critical-theory.com. Here are a few favourites, but do look at the whole list.

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Julia Lupton on two new guides to Shakespeare

Posted on December 14, 2013 by stuartelden

At Thinking with Shakespeare, Julia Lupton discusses two stand-out guides to Shakespeare –  The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare, edited by Arthur Kinney, and the Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy, edited by Claire McEachern.

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Books received

Posted on December 14, 2013 by stuartelden

Luke Glanville’s Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect, Sue Middleton’s Henri Lefebvre and Education, the new issues of RIS and Transactions, and a manuscript to review.

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