Category Archives: People

Nigel Thrift on the spaces of academic offices and studies

In the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Speaking about Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon

I’ll be briefly talking about the Shakespearean territories project at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon on 11 October. Coals to Newcastle…

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Books received

Timothy Mitchell’s Carbon Democracy (this keeps coming up in conversations and papers); a fascinating-looking new book on The Concept of World from Kant to Derrida; William Connolly’s new The Fragility of Things; a biography of Hegel; and the two volumes … Continue reading

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In good company – Agamben, Badiou, Negri, Amin, Harvey, Flusser, Elden

Critical Theory’s seven books that came out in September.

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Books received

Two books for the Foucault project – a collection of pieces on the first volume of the History of Sexuality, and the only other volume of Les Vies Parallèles series Foucault initiated (the first was the Herculine Barbin memoir); David Harvey’s A … Continue reading

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My review of Mark Purcell, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy

My review of Mark Purcell, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy has now been published in Global Discourse (requires subscription). A limited number of downloads are available here. If that expires, please let me know if you’d like a copy.

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Of relations and rights : interview with Luce Irigaray

via Continental Philosophy.

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more on Critchley and Webster, The Hamlet Doctrine

The Verso blog has some more links.

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In Marx’s Laboratory – Critical Readings of the Grundrisse

Initially an expensive hardback, but paperback to follow. Edited by Riccardo Bellofiore, University of Bergamo, Italy, Guido Starosta, National University of Quilmes, Argentina, and Peter D. Thomas, Brunel University, London In Marx’s Laboratory. Critical Interpretations of the Grundrisse provides a … Continue reading

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Disclosure – issue on Security, with an interview with Jane Guyer, Stuart Elden, Russ Castronovo and Michael Hardt

The new issue of the University of Kentucky journal DisClosure is now available. It is on the theme of Security, and includes excerpts from an interview with me from when I visited UK last year, alongside contributions from Jane Guyer, … Continue reading

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