Category Archives: People

Henryk Grossman – The Change in the Original Plan for Marx’s Capital and Its Causes

Very interesting article translated in the latest Historical Materialism – Henryk Grossman, “The Change in the Original Plan for Marx’s Capital and Its Causes” (requires subscription).

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Derrida, The Death Penalty, Volume I

I’ve read some great books by Derrida, but the latest of his seminars, The Death Penalty, Volume I, is right up there with them. He is such a wonderful reader of texts. There is so much care, attention to detail, … Continue reading

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Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre?

[The most recent version of this guide can be found here.] This comes in response to a question to me on Twitter. Where should you start with Henri Lefebvre? I think many people, especially in Geography, go to The Production … Continue reading

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Critical.Theory.com’s 15 books to be excited about in 2014

Critical.Theory.com’s 15 books to be excited about in 2014 – full list here. Some of these are new, some new translations, some new editions, but lots to get excited about – Derrida, Althusser, Jameson, Critchley, Laclau, Massumi & Manning etc.

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Christa Davis Acampora, Contesting Nietzsche – free excerpt

University of Chicago Press have made an excerpt from Christa Davis Acampora’s Contesting Nietzsche available – here.

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Adam Shatz on Benoit Peeters’s biography of Derrida in the LRB

Adam Shatz reviews Benoit Peeters’s biography of Derrida in the LRB.

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Agamben and Indifference – new book by William Watkin coming soon

Agamben and Indifference, by William Watkin, coming soon with Rowman & Littlefield International: Since the publication of Homo Sacer in 1995, Giorgio Agamben has become one of the world’s most revered and controversial thinkers. His ideas on our current political … Continue reading

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Books received – Stoler and Derrida

Two books I’ve mentioned before – Ann Laura Stoler’s collection Imperial Debris, and Jacques Derrida’s The Death Penalty, Volume I.

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Books received – Macey, Roberts, Amoore, Barry, Dosse, Tel Quel Reader, TCS, JUCS

Some older books ordered for the Foucault project – the Dosse has some important information on CERFI, there is a Foucault piece in The Tel Quel Reader; Andrew Barry’s Material Politics and Louise Amoore’s The Politics of Possibility sent by … Continue reading

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Foucault’s Last Decade – fifth update

Having put together rough drafts of chapters 1 and 2 (see previous update), I was now able to move to the real focus of the book. But there is no simple break, and even as I go onto these chapters there … Continue reading

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