Category Archives: People

More doubts about the Jeremy Bamber conviction

Posted on February 5, 2012 by stuartelden

Ballistics experts raise doubts as to whether the much-disputed silencer was ever used – report in The Guardian, and a video reviewing the case a year ago. I said something about this case in my piece on the Troy Davis execution … Continue reading →

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Rancière, Macherey, Balibar in review

Posted on February 3, 2012 by stuartelden

The Notes Taken rounds up three reviews.

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Macherey on philosophy and literature

Posted on February 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Some nice quotes from Pierre Macherey’s The Object of Literature “literature and philosophy are inextricable entwined. Or at least they were until history established a sort of official division between the two” (p. 3). “let us listen, then, to literature … Continue reading →

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Agamben – Homo Sacer structure

Posted on January 31, 2012 by stuartelden

Update: a new graphic of the structure is available here. Thanks to Nicholas Dahmann for this – the structure of Agamben’s Homo Sacer in graphic form… jpg and pdf.

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Thrift on refereeing in crisis

Posted on January 31, 2012 by stuartelden

In the Chronicle of Higher Education. Thanks to Sam Kinsey for posting this in comments – I’ve reposted so it is more widely seen.

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Giorgio Agamben – Homo Sacer structure

Posted on January 31, 2012 by stuartelden

Update: a graphic of the structure is available here. Thanks to André Dias for the Italian information – this is the structure of Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer series, with English titles where available: I:  Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life [Homo … Continue reading →

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Agamben, Opus Dei in French

Posted on January 29, 2012 by stuartelden

Agamben’s Opus Dei – volume II, 5 of the Homo Sacer project – has been translated into French. Why is it the French seem to always be quicker at translations than the English or American presses? I can’t find an … Continue reading →

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Canguilhem, Complete Works

Posted on January 29, 2012 by stuartelden

Volume 1 of Georges Canguilhem’s Œuvres complètes was published late last year. Given it is over 1,000 pages, the price of €38 is not too steep. There are projected to be six volumes. This has been promised for some time. … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare cartoons

Posted on January 29, 2012 by stuartelden

Cliffs Notes have cartoon versions of six of Shakespeare’s plays, here. Currently Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Julius Caesar. Not to be taken too seriously… (Via Julia Reinhard Lupton’s Thinking with Shakespeare blog.)

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The Epic Mode and Territory

Posted on January 28, 2012 by stuartelden

This is a question I received that I can’t answer – anyone reading this have a sense of whether this has been done, is possible, or plausible? The request comes from Joel Gladd (jgladd@wisc.edu) but do please reply through comments. … Continue reading →

Posted in Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Territory, The Birth of Territory | 4 Comments