Category Archives: People

Beer on Sloterdijk

Posted on June 1, 2012 by stuartelden

David Beer reviews Sloterdijk’s Bubbles: Spheres I at Berfrois. David also has a blog here.

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Posted on May 31, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
Didn’t realise the whole thing was online. Biblioklept View original post

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Posted on May 31, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
This is really important news in Heidegger studies. The Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis) is coming out in a new translation. It will be out with Indiana University Press in April 2012, with the translation made…

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Peter Sloterdijk in conversation with Nigel Thrift at the Tate

Posted on May 31, 2012 by stuartelden

On Saturday 16th June, at the Tate gallery in London – “Spaces of Transformation: Spatialised Immunity”. Peter Sloterdijk’s philosophico-morphological theory is based on an understanding of the history of culture as spatialisations of forms. The world in which we live now requires … Continue reading →

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Historical Materialism conference – call for papers

Posted on May 31, 2012 by stuartelden

‘Weighs Like a Nightmare’ – Ninth Annual Historical Materialism Conference Central London 8-11 November 2012. Call for papers – deadline 1 June 2012. I’ve been told they are particularly interested in papers from the ‘critical/radical/Marxist geography world’… Has Marx been … Continue reading →

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David Harvey: ‘The financial crisis is an urban crisis’

Posted on May 31, 2012 by stuartelden

Short video piece on The Guardian website.

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Étienne Balibar – Anti-Humanism, and the Question of Philosophical Anthropology

Posted on May 31, 2012 by stuartelden

Audio recording of a lecture with response and discussion, here. (Thanks to Sam Kinsley for the link) The controversy opposing “humanism” and “anti-humanism” was especially virulent in the 1960s and 70s in France, involving different tendencies of Phenomenology, Marxism, Structuralism … Continue reading →

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The Anarchist Turn – Simon Critchley

Posted on May 27, 2012 by stuartelden

The Butler videos I linked to earlier are part of a wider conference. Below is Simon Critchley’s introduction, which around 4 minutes in raises the question of anarchist geographers/ies and calls for ‘new maps’.   More videos from this conference … Continue reading →

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Marking finished

Posted on May 27, 2012 by stuartelden

Finally finished marking. Over the past month or so it’s been a lot of essays; 10 dissertations on topics from Portuguese music to Terry Pratchett novels to the war on terror; and 180 exam papers. These have been interspersed with quite … Continue reading →

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Marie-Eve Morin on Jean-Luc Nancy

Posted on May 27, 2012 by stuartelden

Polity has a page up for Marie-Eve Morin’s book on Nancy. Jean-Luc Nancy is one of the leading contemporary thinkers in France today. Through an inventive reappropriation of the major figures in the continental tradition, Nancy has developed an original … Continue reading →

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