Category Archives: People

Amin and Thrift, Arts of the Political

Posted on June 25, 2012 by stuartelden

Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift’s new book, Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left is due out in March 2013 with Duke University Press. Very little on the publisher site as yet.

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Foucault – Maladie mentale et personnalité, online

Posted on June 22, 2012 by stuartelden

Long out of print, Maladie mentale et personnalité was Foucault’s first book from 1954, reissued as Maladie mentale et psychologie in substantially revised form. It is freely available here.

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Biopolitics conference in Dublin – Agamben as keynote

Posted on June 22, 2012 by stuartelden

Biopolitics, Society & Performance conference – 31 Oct – 2 Nov 2012, Trinity College Dublin. Giorgio Agamben, Thomas Lemke and Rosi Braidotti are among the keynotes. via Thinking with Shakespeare.

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Coriolanus in Edinburgh

Posted on June 22, 2012 by stuartelden

Full details of my talk on Coriolanus in Edinburgh on 2nd July, just before the RGS-IBG conference, have been posted at the Bodies in Movement site. My talk is entitled ‘Bellies, Wounds, Infections, Animals, Territories: The Political Bodies of Coriolanus‘.

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John Gray on Žižek in the New York Review of Books

Posted on June 20, 2012 by stuartelden

On Less than Nothing and Living in the End Times – here.

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Balibar and Mezzadra at the Tate Modern – topology and borders

Posted on June 19, 2012 by stuartelden

Videos of Etienne Balibar and Sandro Mezzadra on topology and borders. Via Joshua Kurz’s Being-in-Exodus blog.

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Bruno Latour on his new project

Posted on June 18, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on ANTHEM:
http://vimeo.com/44155844 For his “An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence” project: For a philosophy that is empirical and not simply empiricist, investigation offers the only way to ferret out its concepts and then put them to the…

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Badiou – Mathematics of the Transcendental

Posted on June 18, 2012 by stuartelden

Continuum have a page up for Badiou’s forthcoming Mathematics of the Transcendental: Onto-logy and being-there. In Mathematics of the Transcendental, Alain Badiou painstakingly works through the pertinent aspects of Category Theory, demonstrating their internal logic and veracity, their derivation and distinction … Continue reading →

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Sloterdijk at the Tate

Posted on June 17, 2012 by stuartelden

Went to the Sloterdijk talk at the Tate yesterday. Nigel Thrift unfortunately couldn’t be there, so his place was taken by his Warwick colleague Ralf Rogowski. Rogowski gave an introduction and then Sloterdijk gave a talk. It was billed as … Continue reading →

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Michael Mann – Sources of Social Power volumes 3 and 4

Posted on June 17, 2012 by stuartelden

Volume 3: Global Empires and Revolution, 1890–1945 and 4: Globalizations, 1945–2011  of Michael Mann’s magisterial The Sources of Social Power are listed for late this year. The last volume appeared in 1993, so it’s been a long wait – not that Mann has been exactly quiet in … Continue reading →

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