Category Archives: People

Momentarily: Learning from Mega-Events – new link to collection and my piece on Lefebvre

Posted on December 29, 2013 by stuartelden

This is a new download link for Bik Van der Pol, Alissa Firth-Eagland and Urban Subjects (eds.), Momentarily: Learning from Mega-Events, Vancouver: Western Front, 2011. The previous link was broken, and thanks to Himanshu Burte for alerting me to this. The … Continue reading →

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Marxism and Monsters – China Miéville

Posted on December 29, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGlo2Dd_ku8 http://chinamieville.net/

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Althusser’s 1966 piece on the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Posted on December 29, 2013 by stuartelden

Interesting piece from Althusser in 1966: “Cultural Revolution, Party, State and Conjuncture” The English translation was recently shared  by Decalages. Originally published (in French) in late 1966 it is a very early analysis of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution based entirely … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s La société punitive – some additional thoughts on the second half

Posted on December 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Following my thoughts on the first half, here are some additional comments on the second half of Foucault’s 1973 lecture course La société punitive. As mentioned, I’ll be writing a much more formal and thorough review for Berfrois. – Harcourt’s notes … Continue reading →

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Une histoire au présent. Les historiens et Michel Foucault (2013)

Posted on December 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Damien Boquet, Blaise Dufal, Pauline Labey (éd.), Une histoire au présent. Les historiens et Michel Foucault, Paris, CNRS éditions, 2013 Publisher’s page Further info on Les émotions au Moyen Âge site Cette réflexion de Jacques…

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Bob Jessop’s 1984 book on Nicos Poulantzas available as a free pdf

Posted on December 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Bob Jessop’s excellent 1984 book on Nicos Poulantzas available as a free pdf at bobjessop.org

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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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