Category Archives: People

The Stuart Hall project – film out this week

Posted on September 4, 2013 by stuartelden

Highly acclaimed at this year’s Sundance and Sheffield Documentary festivals, the new film from award-winning documentarian John Akomfrah (The Nine Muses) is a sensitive, emotionally charged portrait of cultural theorist Stuart Hall. A founding figure of contemporary cultural studies – … Continue reading →

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Ian Hacking on DSM-5: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

Posted on September 4, 2013 by stuartelden

Ian Hacking reviews DSM-5: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in the London Review of Books (open access). Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for the link.

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Foucault’s 1970-71 course Lectures on the Will to Know reviewed in The New Inquiry

Posted on September 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Christopher Chitty reviews Foucault’s 1970-71 course Lectures on the Will to Know in The New Inquiry. Thanks to John Protevi for the link.

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John Protevi, Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the Sciences – reviewed by Todd May

Posted on September 3, 2013 by stuartelden

John Protevi’s Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the Sciences is reviewed by Todd May at NDPR.

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Politics and the Later Latour – call for papers

Posted on September 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Posted on behalf of Mark Edward: Call for Papers: Politics and the Later Latour Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought Volume 4: Issue 4, November 2014 This August sees the publication of the English translation of Bruno … Continue reading →

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Terricide – RGS-IBG audio available

Posted on September 2, 2013 by stuartelden

My talk at the recent RGS-IBG conference is available here. This was part of a session on Geo-social formations: Capitalism and the Earth (details here and here), organised by Arun Saldanha, Kathryn Yusoff and Nigel Clark. Terricide – Lefebvre, Geopolitics and the Killing … Continue reading →

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Cambridge Foucault Lexicon – forthcoming

Posted on September 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Cambridge University Press have a page up for the forthcoming The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, edited by Leonard Lawlor and John Nale. I wrote the entry on ‘space’. It looks like this is going to be another expensive, destined for libraries … Continue reading →

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Koopman, Genealogy as Critique reviewed at NDPR

Posted on September 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Colin Koopman’s important book on Foucault, Genealogy as Critique, is reviewed at NDPR.

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Ian Hacking on chance as worldview

Posted on September 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Understanding Society has an interesting post about Ian Hacking’s work on chance and probability.

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Gastón Gordillo’s Rubble gets closer

Posted on August 31, 2013 by stuartelden

At his Space and Politics blog, Gastón Gordillo has posted the backcover text for his book Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction – forthcoming with Duke University Press. He also notes that there is a longer summary of the book here. I’ll be interviewing … Continue reading →

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