Category Archives: People

Wendy Brown interview at Critical Legal Thinking

Posted on February 22, 2013 by stuartelden

Wendy Brown is interviewed at Critical Legal Thinking about her work and contemporary politics. Thanks to Andrew Burridge for the link.

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Chris Harker on Judith Butler’s Parting Ways

Posted on February 21, 2013 by stuartelden

My Durham colleague Chris Harker discusses Judith Butler’s Parting Ways – here and here.

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Boko Haram, Shakespeare and Territory – talks at L.S.E. and Aberystwyth

Posted on February 18, 2013 by stuartelden

I’m giving three talks this coming week – at the London School of Economics and Aberystwyth University. At the L.S.E. I’ll be giving the first version on a paper under the working title of “Nigeria’s ‘War on Terror’: The Geopolitics … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on February 16, 2013 by stuartelden
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Thomas Nail, Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo

Posted on February 16, 2013 by stuartelden

Thomas Nail’s Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo is reviewed at NDPR. We are witnessing the return of political revolution. However, this is not a return to the classical forms of revolution: the capture of the state, the political … Continue reading →

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Manet: Portraying Life

Posted on February 16, 2013 by stuartelden

London’s Royal Academy of Arts has a new exhibition Manet: Portraying Life. It runs from 26 January to 14 April 2013 with advance booking advised. Foucault wrote a manuscript on Manet which is believed to be destroyed, but lectures have been … Continue reading →

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Boko Haram – An Annotated Bibliography

Posted on February 14, 2013 by stuartelden

  Update 27 March 2013 – an updated version of this bibliography is available here. This is an incomplete bibliography, but includes the pieces I’ve read while writing a piece on questions of territory in relation to Boko Haram (see … Continue reading →

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Timothy Morton, Realist Magic

Posted on February 14, 2013 by stuartelden

Timothy Morton’s new book Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality is now available to read online open access – print and pdf to follow presumably.

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John Sallis, Logic of Imagination: The Expanse of the Elemental

Posted on February 14, 2013 by stuartelden

John Sallis’s latest book, Logic of Imagination: The Expanse of the Elemental, is reviewed at NDPR. Here’s the publisher’s information – looks very interesting. The Shakespearean image of a tempest and its aftermath forms the beginning as well as a major … Continue reading →

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Hegel et l’Afrique

Posted on February 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Actu Philosophia has an interesting piece on a study of Hegel and Africa – piece and book in French.

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