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Christa Davis Acampora, Contesting Nietzsche – free excerpt

Posted on December 2, 2013 by stuartelden

University of Chicago Press have made an excerpt from Christa Davis Acampora’s Contesting Nietzsche available – here.

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Adam Shatz on Benoit Peeters’s biography of Derrida in the LRB

Posted on December 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Adam Shatz reviews Benoit Peeters’s biography of Derrida in the LRB.

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Agamben and Indifference – new book by William Watkin coming soon

Posted on November 30, 2013 by stuartelden

Agamben and Indifference, by William Watkin, coming soon with Rowman & Littlefield International: Since the publication of Homo Sacer in 1995, Giorgio Agamben has become one of the world’s most revered and controversial thinkers. His ideas on our current political … Continue reading →

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Books received – Stoler and Derrida

Posted on November 27, 2013 by stuartelden

Two books I’ve mentioned before – Ann Laura Stoler’s collection Imperial Debris, and Jacques Derrida’s The Death Penalty, Volume I.

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Books received – Macey, Roberts, Amoore, Barry, Dosse, Tel Quel Reader, TCS, JUCS

Posted on November 26, 2013 by stuartelden

Some older books ordered for the Foucault project – the Dosse has some important information on CERFI, there is a Foucault piece in The Tel Quel Reader; Andrew Barry’s Material Politics and Louise Amoore’s The Politics of Possibility sent by … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – fifth update

Posted on November 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Having put together rough drafts of chapters 1 and 2 (see previous update), I was now able to move to the real focus of the book. But there is no simple break, and even as I go onto these chapters there … Continue reading →

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Grégoire Chamayou – A Theory of the Drone forthcoming in English

Posted on November 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone is forthcoming in English translation with New Press, publication date of August 2014. It doesn’t appear on the press’s site, but is listed on various online bookstores (i.e. here). I’ve recently read the French … Continue reading →

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‘Reflections on Jacoby and All That’: An Unpublished Essay by E. P. Thompson

Posted on November 25, 2013 by stuartelden

History Workshop have made available a previously unpublished essay by E.P. Thompson here.

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Neil Brenner (ed.) Implosions/Explosions – sample pages available

Posted on November 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Sample pages for Neil Brenner’s collection, Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization are now available on the publisher’s website. In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required … Continue reading →

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Derrida’s seminar on The Death Penalty – volume 1 published in English

Posted on November 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Volume 1 of Derrida’s 1999-2000 seminar on The Death Penalty has been published in English. In this newest installment in Chicago’s series of Jacques Derrida’s seminars, the renowned philosopher attempts one of his most ambitious goals: the first truly philosophical argument … Continue reading →

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