Category Archives: People

Books received – Global Politics and The Great University Gamble

Author copies of Global Politics, and The Great University Gamble.

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Joshua Barkan, Corporate Sovereignty

One of the advantages of most of my books still being in boxes is that I’m reading a lot of books as I get them, instead of putting them on the ‘to read’ shelf and turning to something more immediately … Continue reading

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French thesis on Foucault and the Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons

Thèse soutenue en philosophie sous la direction de Monsieur François Delaporte en novembre 2006 à l’Université de Picardie Jules Verne d’Amiens (80) – Mention ‘Très honorable et félicitations du jury’. Download here. Le premier texte de Michel Foucault sur la prison … Continue reading

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Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy – Call for Papers – ‘Schelling’

Call for Papers for a volume of Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy on Schelling, deadline 1st November 2013.

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Neil Brenner (ed.) Implosions/Explosions – forthcoming

Jovis Verlag have a page up for Neil Brenner’s collection, Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization. In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical … Continue reading

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Fionnuala O’Neill response to my The Geopolitics of King Lear

In the same issue of Law and Literature that my paper “The Geopolitics of King Lear: Territory, Land, Earth” (free download) appears in, there is a piece by Fionnuala O’Neill entitled “Toward Tyranny: Geopolitics and Genre, A Response to Stuart Elden” (requires … Continue reading

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The early Derrida on Heidegger, la question de l’Être et l’histoire

Talking of Derrida on Heidegger, a 1964-65 course, entitled Heidegger, la question de l’Être et l’histoire is being published next month.

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Reading David Farrell Krell on Derrida and our Animal Others

David Farrell Krell has long been one of my favourite commentators on Heidegger and Nietzsche. He is the principal translator of Heidegger’s multi-volume book on Nietzsche, as well as Basic Writings and some other texts, wrote the great book Daimon … Continue reading

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Earth, Terricide, Geo-metrics

I’ve now nearly finished writing my keynote lecture for the Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance workshop at the Balsillie School of International Affairs (September 19-20). The title is “Geo-metrics” (abstract here). This is the third in a sequence of … Continue reading

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Shakespeare in Stratford

One of the things I was looking forward to about being in the Midlands again was the proximity to Stratford-on-Avon. Susan and I went to see Titus Andronicus at the end of August, and I’ve booked tickets for As You … Continue reading

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