Category Archives: People

Slavoj Žižek on ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

Posted on August 9, 2012 by stuartelden

At Boitempo (warning – contains spoilers). Thanks to David McInerney for the link.

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Fionnuala O’Neill reviews Ralph Fiennes’s Coriolanus

Posted on August 7, 2012 by stuartelden

In Shakespeare – requires subscription.

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Alex Jeffrey – The Improvised State

Posted on August 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Alex Jeffrey’s The Improvised State: Sovereignty, Performance and Agency in Dayton Bosnia will be available in print in October. You can read Chapter One here. The Improvised State provides a highly developed account of the nature and outcomes of Bosnian … Continue reading →

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Emilia Angelova reviews Reading Kant’s Geography

Posted on August 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Emilia Angelova, “Kant’s Physical Geography“, Comparative and Continental Philosophy, Vol 4, No 1, 2012 (requires subscription) This review of an edited collection, Reading Kant’s Geography, discusses a series of critical essays on Kant’s physical geography, a topic to which he devoted … Continue reading →

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Mitchell Dean reviews Agamben, The Kingdom and the Glory

Posted on August 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Mitchell Dean, “Governmentality Meets Theology: ‘The King Reigns, but He Does Not Govern’”, Theory, Culture & Society, May 2012 vol. 29 no. 3 145-158 (requires subscription; via Foucault News). A detailed review with some close discussion of the relation of … Continue reading →

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Žižek on Melancholia

Posted on August 7, 2012 by stuartelden

via Thinking with Shakespeare

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Difficult Books

Posted on August 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Publishers Weekly has a list of ten of the most difficult books to read. Heidegger and Hegel make the list, but it is dominated by fiction. Worth it, for me at least, because it links to the original list and discussion … Continue reading →

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Slavoj Žižek – Signs from the Future

Posted on August 3, 2012 by stuartelden

Žižek has another new book coming out this autumn. There is an excerpt available here. Compared to Less than Nothing it’s a mere pamphlet at 128 pages. Entitled The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, it’s published by Verso.

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Simon Critchley interview

Posted on August 1, 2012 by stuartelden

At Figure/Ground (via Graham Harman). Some interesting discussion of universities, teaching, research, assessment as well as politics and his own writing.

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Shakespearean Territories – taking shape?

Posted on July 31, 2012 by stuartelden

While in Nigeria I was working on a book proposal for the Shakespearean Territories project, interspersed with re-reading some of the plays that were on my potential list to be included. It’s now looking something like this: Divided Territories: The … Continue reading →

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