Category Archives: People

Franco Moretti, Distant Reading and The Bourgeois

Posted on March 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Franco Moretti’s book of essays, Distant Reading, is coming out in June. He also has a book entitled The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature coming out at the same time. The Verso blog has a post about his work here. How … Continue reading →

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Latour’s third and fourth Gifford lectures

Posted on March 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Latour’s third lecture – The Puzzling Face of a Secular Gaia and the fourth lecture – The Anthropocene and the Destruction of the Image of the Globe The first and second are available here and here.

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Posted on March 1, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
I’ve been busy (too much so for blogging, sadly) with work on a volume on Nietzsche and political thought, which I am co-editing. More details when the publication tome comes closer. One thing I’ve noticed is…

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How people die in Shakespeare’s tragedies

Posted on March 1, 2013 by stuartelden

via Biblioklept.

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Mark Kelly, Foucault’s ‘History of Sexuality Volume I, The Will to Knowledge’

Posted on February 28, 2013 by stuartelden

Mark Kelly’s guide to Foucault’s ‘History of Sexuality Volume I, The Will to Knowledge’ is now out. Mark is the author of the very good The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault – I examined the PhD that was based on … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies 15

Posted on February 28, 2013 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies issue 15, a theme issue on religion with a number of essays on that topic and an interview with James Bernauer, is now available. Also a number of other essays and reviews. Full contents list – and links … Continue reading →

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David Harvey at Warwick – The Contradictions of Capital

Posted on February 27, 2013 by stuartelden

The Contradictions of Capital, University of Warwick, Distinguished Lecture Series, 14 February 2013 (via Reading Capital).

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Foucault – Lectures on the Will to Know

Posted on February 27, 2013 by stuartelden

Graham Burchell’s transiton of Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know is scheduled for publication in June 2013 (via Foucault News). You can read my review of the French text at Berfrois. Here’s the publisher blurb: This volume gives us … Continue reading →

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Jeff Malpas interviewed at 3am magazine

Posted on February 27, 2013 by stuartelden

Interesting essay with Jeff Malpas on Heidegger, Gadamer, Davidson and landscape at 3am Magazine – parts one and two. (thanks to Dirk Felleman for the link)

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Books received

Posted on February 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (really wanted this to re-read Sartre’s preface); Michael Mack’s How Literature Changes the Way we Think; Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou’s Disposession; David Chandler’s Freedom vs Necessity in International Relations; an old New Left … Continue reading →

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