Category Archives: People

Judith Butler, Parting Ways reviewed at NDPR

Posted on December 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Judith Butler’s new book Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism is reviewed at NDPR.

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Books received

Posted on December 14, 2012 by stuartelden

The two Minnesota ones – Brown, The Primitive, the Aesthetic and the Savage: An Enlightenment Problematic and Schwenger, At the Borders of Sleep: On Liminal Literature – were pre-ordered when I did a review for them, as was Parvini, Shakespeare and Contemporary … Continue reading →

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Jeremy Bentham – Auto-Icon

Posted on December 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Jeremy Bentham’s preserved body sits in a glass case at UCL. A virtual version is now available online (via Tim Morton at Ecology without Nature).

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Continent annual

Posted on December 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Papers from the Continent journal in book form from Punctum – download here. Thanks to Graham Harman for the alert – also includes pieces by Tim Morton, Alain Badiou, Michael O’Rourke, Ben Woodard…

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Encountering Althusser

Posted on December 11, 2012 by stuartelden

New collection of essays on Althusser, with a focus on the later/unpublished work. Details here.

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Foucault’s I, Pierre Rivière – Emotion, Space and Society special issue

Posted on December 10, 2012 by stuartelden

Foucault’s I, Pierre Rivière collection is the subject of a special issue of Emotion, Space and Society (requires subscription).

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David Wood on The Lure of the Writer’s Cabin

Posted on December 10, 2012 by stuartelden

Philosopher David Wood in The New York Times: Much has been written about the writer’s cabin. Among the most notable recent books on the topic are “Heidegger’s Hut” by Adam Sharr and “A Place of My Own: The Architecture of … Continue reading →

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Interview with Gary Gutting

Posted on December 10, 2012 by stuartelden

At 3am magazine – Gutting’s Michel Foucault’s Archaeology of Scientific Reason was one of the first books on Foucault I read, in the first year of my PhD. 3:AM: You are well known as an expert on various French intellectuals … Continue reading →

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Deleuze Cinema

Posted on December 10, 2012 by stuartelden

Useful website with a lot of resources on Deleuze and Cinema – deleuzecinema.com.

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Gastón Gordillo on World War Z

Posted on December 10, 2012 by stuartelden

Gastón Gordillo provides a good analysis of the forthcoming movie World War Z, which is especially interesting concerning the spatial and territorial issues.

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