Category Archives: People

International Politics and Performance

Posted on June 3, 2013 by stuartelden

This has got to be the quickest edited collection I’ve ever been involved in. Routledge have a publication date for October, and I only submitted my chapter (on political bodies in Coriolanus) in mid-March.

Posted in Jenny Edkins, My Publications, Politics, Publishing, Shakespearean Territories, William Shakespeare | 3 Comments

MANCEPT workshop on Methods in Political Theory

Posted on June 1, 2013 by stuartelden

A call for papers for a workshop as part of the Tenth MANCEPT Annual Conference: 4th – 6th September 2013. During the 1960s and 70s the methodological orthodoxy of enquiries into the study of political thought became the target of historical critique. Dissatisfied with … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Politics, Quentin Skinnner, Reinhart Koselleck | 1 Comment

Nietzsche – Beyond Good and Evil / On the Genealogy of Morality

Posted on June 1, 2013 by stuartelden

The next volume of the Stanford University Press Nietzsche translations will be Volume 8, Beyond Good and Evil / On the Genealogy of Morality, translated by Adrian del Caro. Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for the link. Read the full Preface … Continue reading →

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Kant, Natural Science reviewed at NDPR

Posted on May 31, 2013 by stuartelden

Immanuel Kant, Natural Science, edited by Eric Watkins, is reviewed at NDPR. This is the volume that contains the Rink edition of Kant’s lectures on physical geography. This review says nothing about that part of the volume, instead pointing to the … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on May 28, 2013 by stuartelden

The Korean translation of Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis (including my introduction from the English translation); Jacob Taubes, To Carl Schmitt; Richard J. Bernstein’s Violence; and the 2013 diary from Passia, with a wealth of maps, information and data on Palestine, along with … Continue reading →

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Peter Sloterdijk – Philosophical Temperaments

Posted on May 23, 2013 by stuartelden

Peter Sloterdijk’s little book Philosophical Temperaments: From Plato to Foucault is now out in English translation with Columbia University Press. The chapter on Plato is available to read free online.

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Parrhesia issue 16 out

Posted on May 22, 2013 by stuartelden

Open access and available to download here. Includes essays by Graham Harman, Tristan Garcia, Quentin Meillassoux, Marie-Eve Morin on Jean-Luc Nancy, etc. (via Graham Harman’s blog)

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The Funambulist Pamphlets

Posted on May 21, 2013 by stuartelden

One of my favourite blogs, The Funambulist, teams up with one of the most interesting and challenging new publishing outlets, Punctum Books, to produce a series of little books on themes covered on the blog. The twelve first volumes are … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Politics, Publishing, Territory, urban/urbanisation | 3 Comments

Jeanne Haffner, The View from Above

Posted on May 21, 2013 by stuartelden

Jeanne Haffner’s The View from Above: The Science of Social Space has recently been published by MIT Press. In mid-twentieth century France, the term “social space” (l’espace social)—the idea that spatial form and social life are inextricably linked—emerged in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Henri Lefebvre, Politics, urban/urbanisation | 1 Comment

Foucault for Architects

Posted on May 20, 2013 by stuartelden

Gordana Fontana-Giusti’s Foucault for Architects is now out (via Heterotopian Studies). From the mid-1960s onwards Michel Foucault has had a significant impact on diverse aspects of culture, knowledge and arts including architecture and its critical discourse. The implications for architecture … Continue reading →

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