Category Archives: People

Foucault – Mal Faire, Dire Vrai

Posted on August 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Clare O’Farrell has posted news of the publication of Foucault’s 1981 Louvain lectures – an English translation is forthcoming (details here). I won’t repost all the information you can find on the Foucault News blog (or here), which includes the … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory on ‘The Life of a Bullet’

Posted on August 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Also from Derek Gregory – some discussion of the arms trade, and lots of links, following from this powerful film clip.  

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Derek Gregory on Eyal Weizman’s Forensic Architecture Project

Posted on August 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Some discussion and lots of useful links here.

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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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