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On Deleuze and Zapatismo: An Interview with Thomas Nail at critical-theory.com

Posted on October 7, 2013 by stuartelden

Thomas Nail is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Denver. His most recent book is Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo from Edinburgh University Press. You can read the first fifty pages of that book here. Nail … Continue reading →

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A composite translation of a section of Chapter 2 of Foucault’s History of Madness

Posted on October 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Madness and Civilization: An Anthology of Historical Texts has made available A selection from the second chapter La grand renfermement (‘The Great Confinement’) of Histoire de la folie by Michel Foucault (1961) which blends together both existing English translations (privileging … Continue reading →

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Mark Neocleous, War Power, Police Power

Posted on October 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Mark Neocleous’s book War Power, Police Power is due for publication in February 2014. From waste to drones and no-fly zones Why is liberalism so obsessed with waste? Is there a drone above you now? Are you living in a … Continue reading →

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An almost unknown summary of a 1972 lecture by Foucault

Posted on October 4, 2013 by stuartelden

On 7th April 1972, Foucault delivered a lecture under the title of “Cérémonie, théâtre et politique au XVIIe siècle”, in Minneapolis. This was published only in a brief English summary, written by Stephen Davidson, in Acta: Proceedings of the fourth … Continue reading →

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The Daily Habits of Highly Productive Philosophers: Nietzsche, Marx & Kant

Posted on October 4, 2013 by stuartelden

At Open Culture – drawing together descriptions of the work habits of Nietzsche, Marx and Kant.

Posted in Friedrich Nietzsche, Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Writing | 1 Comment

Jane Bennett lecture and workshop

Posted on October 4, 2013 by stuartelden

Heading down to London later today, and then again Saturday, for the Jane Bennett lecture and workshop. The work of Jane Bennett, the political theorist over the last decade has consistently drawn attention to and had a feeling for things, … Continue reading →

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Nigel Thrift on the spaces of academic offices and studies

Posted on October 1, 2013 by stuartelden

In the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Speaking about Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon

Posted on October 1, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ll be briefly talking about the Shakespearean territories project at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon on 11 October. Coals to Newcastle…

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Books received

Posted on October 1, 2013 by stuartelden

Timothy Mitchell’s Carbon Democracy (this keeps coming up in conversations and papers); a fascinating-looking new book on The Concept of World from Kant to Derrida; William Connolly’s new The Fragility of Things; a biography of Hegel; and the two volumes … Continue reading →

Posted in Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Immanuel Kant, William E Connolly | 1 Comment

In good company – Agamben, Badiou, Negri, Amin, Harvey, Flusser, Elden

Posted on September 30, 2013 by stuartelden

Critical Theory’s seven books that came out in September.

Posted in Alain Badiou, Antonio Negri, Books, David Harvey, Giorgio Agamben, The Birth of Territory | 2 Comments