Category Archives: People

Tom Hiddleston as Coriolanus – a review in The Guardian

Posted on December 18, 2013 by stuartelden

Tom Hiddleston as Coriolanus is reviewed in The Guardian. The show appears to be entirely sold-out, but is being broadcast live to cinemas on January 30th 2014.

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Mike Gane interviewed by Baudrillard Studies

Posted on December 17, 2013 by stuartelden

Interesting interview with Mike Gane at Baudrillard Studies. It is especially good on the context of his early work in Sociology, reading Althusser and then Baudrillard. I knew that Lefebvre was on the jury for Baudrillard’s doctoral defence. I didn’t … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault, Anderson, Sloterdijk, Geographica Helvetica

Posted on December 17, 2013 by stuartelden

The latest Foucault lecture course La société punitive; Sloterdijk’s Nietzsche Apostle; Perry Anderson’s Lineages of the Absolutist State (the only one of my ten books that stayed with me that I didn’t actually own); and the new issue of Geographica … Continue reading →

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Christmas gifts for Critical Theorists

Posted on December 16, 2013 by stuartelden

An excellent compendium at critical-theory.com. Here are a few favourites, but do look at the whole list.

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Julia Lupton on two new guides to Shakespeare

Posted on December 14, 2013 by stuartelden

At Thinking with Shakespeare, Julia Lupton discusses two stand-out guides to Shakespeare –  The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare, edited by Arthur Kinney, and the Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy, edited by Claire McEachern.

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Books received

Posted on December 14, 2013 by stuartelden

Luke Glanville’s Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect, Sue Middleton’s Henri Lefebvre and Education, the new issues of RIS and Transactions, and a manuscript to review.

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Henryk Grossman – The Change in the Original Plan for Marx’s Capital and Its Causes

Posted on December 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Very interesting article translated in the latest Historical Materialism – Henryk Grossman, “The Change in the Original Plan for Marx’s Capital and Its Causes” (requires subscription).

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Derrida, The Death Penalty, Volume I

Posted on December 12, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve read some great books by Derrida, but the latest of his seminars, The Death Penalty, Volume I, is right up there with them. He is such a wonderful reader of texts. There is so much care, attention to detail, … Continue reading →

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Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre?

Posted on December 11, 2013 by stuartelden

[The most recent version of this guide can be found here.] This comes in response to a question to me on Twitter. Where should you start with Henri Lefebvre? I think many people, especially in Geography, go to The Production … Continue reading →

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Critical.Theory.com’s 15 books to be excited about in 2014

Posted on December 4, 2013 by stuartelden

Critical.Theory.com’s 15 books to be excited about in 2014 – full list here. Some of these are new, some new translations, some new editions, but lots to get excited about – Derrida, Althusser, Jameson, Critchley, Laclau, Massumi & Manning etc.

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