Category Archives: People

Foucault Studies 14 – including an unpublished Foucault interview

Posted on September 26, 2012 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies 14 is now out. The bulk of the issue is a theme section on Foucault and Queer Theory, but the highlight is a 1978 interview with Foucault conducted by Colin Gordon and Paul Patton, and introduced by Alain Beaulieu … Continue reading →

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Heterotopian Studies – now with blog

Posted on September 25, 2012 by stuartelden

The Heterotopian Studies site I mentioned a few months back has a blog attached to it – http://www.heterotopiastudies.com/blog/ It is extraordinary how this short piece by Foucault, which was not published for almost twenty years, has generated so much interest and … Continue reading →

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Right to the City

Posted on September 25, 2012 by stuartelden

New book on the right to the city, in Italian and English, with contributions by by Francesca Iovino, Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, Mark Purcell, Kolektyw Syrena, Marco Deseriis, and Jodi Dean. I got the link from Mark Purcell at Path … Continue reading →

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Dark Chemistry reviews Graham Harman, Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy

Posted on September 25, 2012 by stuartelden

Extended review of Weird Realism at the Dark Chemistry blog.

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Richard Seymour – The territorial logic of the capitalist state

Posted on September 25, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting post at Lenin’s Tomb on contemporary politics, states and spaces. Some discussion of Lefebvre, Gregory, Arrighi, and Harvey.

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Negri on Agamben, Opus Dei

Posted on September 23, 2012 by stuartelden

Antonio Negri discusses Agamben’s Opus Dei, and his work more generally (via Peter Gratton and AUFS).

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Clive Barnett review of Ash Amin, Land of Strangers

Posted on September 19, 2012 by stuartelden

At the LSE Review of Books, Clive Barnett reviews Ash Amin’s Land of Strangers.

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Lefebvre on Hitler

Posted on September 19, 2012 by stuartelden

As I’ve previously mentioned, there is a new Italian translation of Henri Lefebvre’s early book Hitler au pouvoir, les enseignements de cinq années de fascisme en Allemagne, Paris: Bureau d’Éditions, 1938. Though I don’t read Italian, I got hold of … Continue reading →

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New books received

Posted on September 19, 2012 by stuartelden

A pile of new books received recently. Foucault’s Mal faire, dire vrai is probably the first I will tackle. The Polity ones here were in recompense for a review of a manuscript for them; Alex Jeffrey kindly sent me a copy … Continue reading →

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Reading Shakespeare in Nigeria

Posted on September 19, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ve was in Nigeria again the last ten days. It’s not exactly a place for a holiday so when Susan was working in the week I was working hard on the Shakespearean Territories project. I’ve been combining reading plays I … Continue reading →

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