Category Archives: People

Don Mitchell on Neil Smith – long article available

Posted on November 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Don Mitchell‘s essay “Neil Smith, 1954-2012: Radical Geography, Marxist Geographer, Revolutionary Geographer” is available on his website. The whole thing is well worth reading, even if you know the work well. It’s a thoughtful and moving piece. What is especially … Continue reading →

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Judith Butler – Parting Ways explained in six minutes

Posted on November 10, 2013 by stuartelden

Parting Ways has just been released in paperback – embed doesn’t work so see critical-theory.com.

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Stuart Hall – Culture and Power interview from 1997 in RP now open access

Posted on November 10, 2013 by stuartelden

Radical Philosophy have made a 1997 interview with Stuart Hall, “Culture and Power” available open access.

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Latour’s Gifford lectures – text now available as pdf

Posted on November 8, 2013 by stuartelden

Update 2019: These links seem to be dead, but the pdf of the lectures can be found here; and the videos here. The lectures are now available as a book – details here. Bruno Latour has made the text of … Continue reading →

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Books received – Heidegger Gesamtausgabe volumes

Posted on November 8, 2013 by stuartelden

Recently received, two huge volumes of the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe. The first, itself in two parts, is Volume 73, one of the manuscripts Heidegger chose not to publish in his lifetime, under the title of Zum Ereignis Denken. This follows from … Continue reading →

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Foucault Doctoral Workshop – call for papers

Posted on November 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Posted on behalf of Philippe Bonditti: Call for papers (in English and French) for the Foucault Doctoral Workshop organized by the Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault (Paris). It will take place next January 15th and 16th 2014 at IMEC (Abbaye d’Ardenne, … Continue reading →

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Rousseau – Property, Land, Territory

Posted on November 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Mark Purcell points to Rousseau’s ‘denunciation of property’ in the second discourse: The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him, … Continue reading →

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David Tennant as Richard II @TheRSC – some thoughts

Posted on November 6, 2013 by stuartelden

I went to see Shakespeare’s Richard II in Stratford yesterday. David (Dr Who) Tennant was King Richard, but a very strong cast generally – Oliver Ford Davies as the Duke of York, Michael Pennington as John of Gaunt, Nigel Lindsay … Continue reading →

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Irish Left Review interview with David Harvey

Posted on November 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Interesting out-takes from an interview with David Harvey, at Irish Left Review. The full print interview is longer, though excerpts are available in Red Pepper. The latter discusses his next book, The Seventeen Contradictions of Capitalism, due out next year.

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David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Capital: Volume 2 – a brief review

Posted on November 5, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve previously posted about David Harvey’s A Companion to Marx’s Capital: Volume 2 being published. I’ve now had a chance to read it, and to my mind it’s even better than the first volume A Companion to Marx’s Capital which appeared in 2010. … Continue reading →

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