Category Archives: People

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 →

Posted in Henri Lefebvre, Jean-Paul Sartre, Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, People | 2 Comments

Zizek on Authoritarian Capitalism

Posted on October 10, 2012 by stuartelden

Slavoj Žižek discusses who won the recession and the idea of authoritarian capitalism in Foreign Policy. Looks like an excerpt or teaser for The Year of Dreaming Dangerously.

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Reading the Classics of Western Philosophy

Posted on October 9, 2012 by stuartelden

List below and survey here. The queston asked is how many of these have you read. And the whole of these books, not some, not an abbreviated form. I’m claiming 18 of these, and bits, sometimes substantial, of others. Never read any Sidgwick, Moore, … Continue reading →

Posted in Baruch Spinoza, Books, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Graham Harman, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Locke, Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Uncategorized | 6 Comments

Taipei Biennial 2012 texts

Posted on October 9, 2012 by stuartelden

If the font doesn’t give you a headache, there are a range of interesting texts to download here. Anselm Franke, Henri Lefebvre, Alberto Toscano et. al.

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