Category Archives: People

The Rhythmanalysis Laboratory

Posted on August 5, 2013 by stuartelden

Website on rhythmanalysis and its uses – thanks to Tahereh Af for the link.

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Slavoj Žižek, The Perverts’ Guide to Ideology – poster and trailer

Posted on August 3, 2013 by stuartelden

via critical-theory.com

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Manifesto of the Groupe d’Information sur les prisons – a full translation

Posted on August 2, 2013 by stuartelden

This text was co-authored by Michel Foucault, Pierre Vidal-Nacquet and Jean-Marie Domenach, and was first read at a news conference on 8 February 1971. It was subsequently published in Esprit in March 1971. As far as I know, the only partial … Continue reading →

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Books received – including Foucault, Power, Truth, Strategy

Posted on August 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Five interesting books. Two are older books by authors whose other work I’ve liked – Badie and Birnbaum’s The Sociology of the State and Adriana Caverero, Relating Narratives – that I got for review work. I got hold of François … Continue reading →

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Althusser, On the Reproduction of Capitalism

Posted on July 31, 2013 by stuartelden

Verso have announced the publication of Althusser’s On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, for early 2014. What is perhaps Louis Althusser’s most famous text, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses,” published in 1970 and very influential ever since, … Continue reading →

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Grégoire Chamayou – books received

Posted on July 31, 2013 by stuartelden

Derek Gregory has discussed Grégoire Chamayou, Théorie du drone in four detailed posts on his Geographical Imaginations blog – here, here, here and here. On the strength of the first two of these I picked up a copy of this book and Chamayou’s … Continue reading →

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Derrida books received

Posted on July 31, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve done a couple of reviews for University of Chicago Press recently. I got most of the recent books I wanted for one review, and for the other filled in a few gaps in my Derrida shelf. His first seminar … Continue reading →

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Foucault in Rio 1973-74

Posted on July 30, 2013 by stuartelden

The ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’ lectures Between 21-25 May 1973, Foucault gave five lectures in Rio de Janeiro. These were under the collective title of ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’. They were published in Portuguese in 1974, in French in 1994 … Continue reading →

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Adam Kirsch on Sloterdijk in the New Republic

Posted on July 29, 2013 by stuartelden

Adam Kirsch discusses some of the recent Sloterdijk translations in the New Republic – thanks to Mark George for the link.

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Foucault’s Last Decade – second update

Posted on July 29, 2013 by stuartelden

Over the last week I did some further work on the timeline I mentioned in the last update. I’m finding this really useful already. In particular I used the bibliography of English translations compiled by Richard Lynch (also in A Companion … Continue reading →

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