Category Archives: People

Foucault workshop in Maastricht

Posted on November 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Government, Truth, Subject – Michel Foucault and the late lecture courses at Collège de France. A colloquium at the Jan van Eyck Academie. The colloquium is devoted to Foucault’s late lectures at Collège de France (Du gouvernement des vivants [unpublished], … Continue reading →

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Neil Smith – “There’s No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster”

Posted on October 31, 2012 by stuartelden

Written in 2006, as a response to Hurricane Katrina, Neil Smith’s piece “There’s No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster” has lost none of its importance.

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Military Migrants

Posted on October 30, 2012 by stuartelden

Vron Ware’s new book, Military Migrants, is being launched at CCIG at the Open University on 14 November. Vron Ware will be in discussion with Brigadier Mark Abraham, Captain Afzal Amin, and Engin Isin, chaired by Evelyn Ruppert. Details here. The project … Continue reading →

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Radical Philosophy 176 – and iPad edition

Posted on October 30, 2012 by stuartelden

Number 176 is available – Judith Butler, Ontological Politics, Lyotard’s Discourse, Figure, Pussy Riot and lots of reviews, including the new biography of Derrida. And you can now read the journal on iPad and Android – details here.

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Foucault and the critique of our present – seminars

Posted on October 28, 2012 by stuartelden

The first of a series of speakers under the overall theme of “Foucault and the critique of our present: Reworking the Foucauldian tool-box”, organised with the support of the Department of Politics, Goldsmiths, University of London. More details here. Alberto Toscano, “Sub-power … Continue reading →

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Italo Calvino on writing

Posted on October 28, 2012 by stuartelden

In a note appended to The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Italo Calvino says: I would like to add that for a certain time it was my intention to write also a third part for this book. [There follows a description … Continue reading →

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Philosophometry – writing A Global History of Philosophy, to 1750

Posted on October 26, 2012 by stuartelden

Justin E.H. Smith – author of the excellent Divine Machines on Leibniz – has a very interesting post about his being commissioned to write A Global History of Philosophy, to 1750. He discusses the challenges of the project, and illustrious … Continue reading →

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Neil Smith Obituary in The Guardian

Posted on October 23, 2012 by stuartelden

Don Mitchell’s obituary of Neil Smith has just been published by The Guardian.

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Books received

Posted on October 23, 2012 by stuartelden

A pile of books from Stanford UP in recompense for review work, mainly Agamben ones I didn’t have before, a couple of novels, the new issue of Society and Space, and two books by Durham authors (that I need to … Continue reading →

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Hopkins on Husserl and Klein

Posted on October 23, 2012 by stuartelden

Burt C. Hopkins, The Origin of the Logic of Symbolic Mathematics: Edmund Husserl and Jacob Klein is reviewed at NDPR. Just as I was finishing my PhD, and was getting interested in questions around calculation, my friend Morris Kaplan suggested … Continue reading →

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