Category Archives: People

The Political Bodies of Coriolanus

Posted on February 25, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my Politics, Philosophy and International Thought lecture at Aberystwyth University is available here. It’s a part of the planned Shakespearean Territories book, and this time I talked about Coriolanus – mainly the play but also the … Continue reading →

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Mark Purcell, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy

Posted on February 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Mark Purcell’s new book, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy, is now available to pre-order. It has very positive endorsements from Peter Marcuse and Susan Fainstein. The book uses Lefebvre, among others, to think about politics, the urban and democracy. Mark … Continue reading →

Posted in Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Negri, Books, Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Rancière, Michael Hardt, Politics, urban/urbanisation | 3 Comments

Foucault, ‘Stultifera Navis’ – a hybrid translation

Posted on February 23, 2013 by stuartelden

Michael Bibby has produced a hybrid translation of the ‘Stultifera Navis’ chapter of Foucault’s History of Madness. It draws on both the existing English translations, and comes with various texts as an introduction and a selection of images.

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Hegel, Our Untimely Contemporary – conference with Slavoj Žižek

Posted on February 23, 2013 by stuartelden

May 10-12, 2013, The Birkbeck Institute, London – full details here (via Verso blog) Hegel is the ultimate bête noire of the last two centuries of philosophy:proponents of Lebensphilosophie, existentialists from Kierkegaard onwards, materialists, historicists, analytic philosophers and empiricists, Marxists, … Continue reading →

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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 →

Posted in Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Politics, Territory | 2 Comments

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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