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Hemming on Heidegger and Marx

Posted on June 26, 2012 by stuartelden

Laurence Paul Hemming, Heidegger and Marx: A Productive Dialogue over the Language of Humanism, forthcoming with Northwestern University Press in early 2013. I was one of the readers of the ms. and it’s a terrific study. Here’s the blurb – the … Continue reading →

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Next things to do

Posted on June 26, 2012 by stuartelden

The manuscript for The Birth of Territory, the image files and all the permissions paperwork went to University of Chicago Press yesterday. Of course, there are still copy-editing queries, proofs, index, cover discussions, marketing questionnaires and so on to come, but … Continue reading →

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Two Society and Space pieces on Sloterdijk

Posted on June 26, 2012 by stuartelden

Over at the Society and Space open site, you can read Nigel Thrift’s (non-delivered) introduction to a recent lecture by Peter Sloterdijk at the Tate Modern. Peter Adey, Harriet Hawkins and Craig Martin then discuss the lecture itself.

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Mayhew on Historical Geography and Intellectual History

Posted on June 25, 2012 by stuartelden

Robert Mayhew’s review essay of some books on these topics has just appeared in Journal of Historical Geography (requires subscription). Among the books discussed is Reading Kant’s Geography. Here are a couple of excerpts discussing that book: For the present reviewer, per … Continue reading →

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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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