Category Archives: People

Maastricht talk cancelled

Posted on October 22, 2012 by stuartelden

Due to unforeseen circumstances I have had to withdraw from the talk I was scheduled to give on 7 November 2012 at the “Michel Foucault and the late lecture courses at Collège de France” conference at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. … Continue reading →

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Jean-Paul Sartre’s blog

Posted on October 20, 2012 by stuartelden

The New Yorker has some passages from Sartre’s blog.

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Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know

Posted on October 20, 2012 by stuartelden

Amazon have a page up for the English translation of Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know, scheduled for May 2013. The date may change, as have others in the past, but this is the first indication I’ve seen for … Continue reading →

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Neil Smith’s Revolutionary Imperative

Posted on October 18, 2012 by stuartelden

Short piece on Neil Smith at rabble.ca – picking up on a piece Neil published in Antipode entitled “The Revolutionary Imperative“.  

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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s Introduction to Prismatic Ecologies

Posted on October 16, 2012 by stuartelden

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen has shared his draft introduction to a book entitled Prismatic Ecologies: Ecotheory Beyond Green, forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press. The chapters include pieces by a range of philosophers, literary scholars, etc. on different colours and their relation to … Continue reading →

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Book publishing, uploading pdfs, and print on demand

Posted on October 16, 2012 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has some good thoughts on book publishing here – sparked by someone uploading his book Tool Being. I agree with Graham on this, although I don’t have his experience of publishing a book in simultaneous print and free … Continue reading →

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New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies

Posted on October 16, 2012 by stuartelden

New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies, by Rick Dolphijn and Iris van der Tuin is now available, open access, online. Print and pdf versions to follow. The first half of the book has interviews with Rosi Bradotti, Quentin Meillassoux, Karen Barad and … Continue reading →

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New books received

Posted on October 15, 2012 by stuartelden

Some recently received books – mainly from University of Georgia Press in recompense for review work; an old and a new book bought from Verso; Kant’s Natural Science for review; and a copy of the Babel2  Diritto alla città collection … Continue reading →

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Slavoj Žižek discusses ‘The Year of Dreaming Dangerously’

Posted on October 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Radio discussion with Slavoj Žižek on CBC.

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Mark Poster (1941-2012)

Posted on October 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Mark Poster, intellectual historian of French thought and theorist of media and information, died yesterday. I never met him or heard him speak, but he was important to me through his writings. Perhaps best known for his work on Baudrillard, Sartre, … Continue reading →

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