Category Archives: People

Agamben – The Highest Poverty

Posted on November 15, 2012 by stuartelden

Stanford University Press have a page up for Agamben’s The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life. You can read a draft of the preface here. The Highest Poverty is IV, 1 in the Homo Sacer series. Nicholas Dahmann made a … Continue reading →

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Bill Martin scholar session audio

Posted on November 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Bill Martin was the focus of a scholar session at the recent SPEP conference. Peter Gratton spoke at this and recorded it and has posted the audio here.

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Slavoj Žižek on Obama’s re-election

Posted on November 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Short piece in The Guardian. Preposterous and thoughtful all at the same time. Here’s one typical paragraph: In Europe, the ground floor of a building is counted as zero, so the floor above it is the first floor, while in the … Continue reading →

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Big books received

Posted on November 13, 2012 by stuartelden

The Thrift and Glennie book is 470 pages; Sloterdijk’s is 500; Parfit’s is a staggering 1,400 pages across the two volumes. All received in recompense for review work – I reviewed part of a reference work for OUP and the manuscript of the … Continue reading →

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Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics

Posted on November 13, 2012 by stuartelden

This looks a very interesting collection – full details and links to some excerpts here. Adam David Morton discusses the book and his chapter here.

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Elizabeth Grosz – interview with Interstitial teaser

Posted on November 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Fractured Politics has posted a brief excerpt from a forthcoming interview with Elizabeth Grosz and the new journal Interstitial.

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Foucault – Du gouvernement des vivants

Posted on November 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Just received – really looking forward to this.

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Jean Gottmann – The Significance of Territory

Posted on November 12, 2012 by stuartelden

The editors of Geographica Helvetica have asked me to contribute a short piece to their relaunch issue. They asked me to write a piece on past geographical text, reevaluating its contemporary worth and relevance. This is for one of the … Continue reading →

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Daniel Defert and the Foucault archives

Posted on November 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Foucault News links to an interview with Daniel Defert on the Foucault archives and a separate piece with some more details: Il ne s’agit pas encore du trésor, mais déjà de sa cartographie : un inventaire de 63 pages décrivant le contenu … Continue reading →

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Foucault after Agamben: Rethinking the Language of Biopolitics – call for panellists

Posted on November 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Najeeb Jan is seeking panelists for the 2013 Los Angeles meeting of the AAG. Please note since this is a panel discussion, you will not need to submit an abstract. If you are interested in joining the panel discussion please email … Continue reading →

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