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A Feeling for Things: A Conversation around the work of Jane Bennett – audio recordings

Posted on October 9, 2013 by stuartelden

Backdoor Broadcasting Company have made available the audio recordings from the Jane Bennett workshop on 5th October. Contributions from Jane Bennett, Lisa Baraitser, Michael O’Rourke, Joao Florencio, Eileen Joy, Nigel Clark, and Eszter Timár.

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Books received – Indiana University press sale

Posted on October 7, 2013 by stuartelden

Three books by or about Heidegger, and Colin Koopman’s Genealogy as Critique.

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Sloterdijk’s Nietzsche Apostle forthcoming

Posted on October 7, 2013 by stuartelden

Forthcoming with Semiotext(e), translated by Steve Corcoran, Sloterdijk’s Nietzsche Apostle. For Peter Sloterdijk, Friedrich Nietzsche represents nothing short of a “catastrophe in the history of language”—a new evangelist for a linguistics of narcissistic jubilation. Nietzsche offered a philosophical declaration of … Continue reading →

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From Geo-metrics to Geo-politics – Waterloo to Zurich

Posted on October 7, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ll be giving a version of the talk I recently gave at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Zurich tomorrow. (I note that William Walters, who I met for the first time at the Balsillie School, … Continue reading →

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On Deleuze and Zapatismo: An Interview with Thomas Nail at critical-theory.com

Posted on October 7, 2013 by stuartelden

Thomas Nail is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Denver. His most recent book is Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo from Edinburgh University Press. You can read the first fifty pages of that book here. Nail … Continue reading →

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A composite translation of a section of Chapter 2 of Foucault’s History of Madness

Posted on October 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Madness and Civilization: An Anthology of Historical Texts has made available A selection from the second chapter La grand renfermement (‘The Great Confinement’) of Histoire de la folie by Michel Foucault (1961) which blends together both existing English translations (privileging … Continue reading →

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Mark Neocleous, War Power, Police Power

Posted on October 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Mark Neocleous’s book War Power, Police Power is due for publication in February 2014. From waste to drones and no-fly zones Why is liberalism so obsessed with waste? Is there a drone above you now? Are you living in a … Continue reading →

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An almost unknown summary of a 1972 lecture by Foucault

Posted on October 4, 2013 by stuartelden

On 7th April 1972, Foucault delivered a lecture under the title of “Cérémonie, théâtre et politique au XVIIe siècle”, in Minneapolis. This was published only in a brief English summary, written by Stephen Davidson, in Acta: Proceedings of the fourth … Continue reading →

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The Daily Habits of Highly Productive Philosophers: Nietzsche, Marx & Kant

Posted on October 4, 2013 by stuartelden

At Open Culture – drawing together descriptions of the work habits of Nietzsche, Marx and Kant.

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Jane Bennett lecture and workshop

Posted on October 4, 2013 by stuartelden

Heading down to London later today, and then again Saturday, for the Jane Bennett lecture and workshop. The work of Jane Bennett, the political theorist over the last decade has consistently drawn attention to and had a feeling for things, … Continue reading →

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