Category Archives: People

Bruno Latour on his new project

Posted on June 18, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on ANTHEM:
http://vimeo.com/44155844 For his “An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence” project: For a philosophy that is empirical and not simply empiricist, investigation offers the only way to ferret out its concepts and then put them to the…

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Badiou – Mathematics of the Transcendental

Posted on June 18, 2012 by stuartelden

Continuum have a page up for Badiou’s forthcoming Mathematics of the Transcendental: Onto-logy and being-there. In Mathematics of the Transcendental, Alain Badiou painstakingly works through the pertinent aspects of Category Theory, demonstrating their internal logic and veracity, their derivation and distinction … Continue reading →

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Sloterdijk at the Tate

Posted on June 17, 2012 by stuartelden

Went to the Sloterdijk talk at the Tate yesterday. Nigel Thrift unfortunately couldn’t be there, so his place was taken by his Warwick colleague Ralf Rogowski. Rogowski gave an introduction and then Sloterdijk gave a talk. It was billed as … Continue reading →

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Michael Mann – Sources of Social Power volumes 3 and 4

Posted on June 17, 2012 by stuartelden

Volume 3: Global Empires and Revolution, 1890–1945 and 4: Globalizations, 1945–2011  of Michael Mann’s magisterial The Sources of Social Power are listed for late this year. The last volume appeared in 1993, so it’s been a long wait – not that Mann has been exactly quiet in … Continue reading →

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Slavoj Žižek’s response to the campaign against Syriza

Posted on June 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Greek Left Review:
The campaign against SYRIZA in the days before elections is getting nastier and nastier – since our enemies control the big media, they can permit themselves direct lies, knowing that our answer cannot reach…

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Hardt and Negri declaration

Posted on June 14, 2012 by stuartelden

This is not a mani­festo. Mani­fes­tos provide a glimpse of a world to come and also call into being the sub­ject, who although now only a specter must mater­i­al­ize to become the agent of change. Mani­fes­tos work like the ancient … Continue reading →

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William Walters, Governmentality

Posted on June 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Just out with Routledge, a short book entitled Governmentality: Critical Encounters. Impressive back cover endorsements from Thomas Lemke, Barry Hindess, Wendy Brown, Marieke de Goede and Grahame Thompson. It’s not quite a textbook, but I think it would work well … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory – Supplying war in Afghanistan: the frictions of distance

Posted on June 12, 2012 by stuartelden

At the Open Democracy website. Pakistan has said NATO’s supply convoys can cross the Afghan border so long as America’s drones do not. Though the expanded use of cyberwarfare, covert special forces and drones is designed to overcome the frictional … Continue reading →

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Žižek’s suggested books on Hegel

Posted on June 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Before, after or alongside reading Slavoj Žižek book on Hegel, these are the books he suggests we read on Hegel. And the picture chosen to illustrate the Verso post brought back some old childhood memories…

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Toscano and Kotsko on Agamben’s The Kingdom and the Glory

Posted on June 12, 2012 by stuartelden

In a 2011 paper for Angelaki Alberto Toscano offers some critical remarks on Agamben’s The Kingdom and the Glory; Adam Kotsko responds. The latter is part of a symposium on the book at the Equinox Political Theology blog.

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