Category Archives: People

Étienne Balibar – Anti-Humanism, and the Question of Philosophical Anthropology

Posted on May 31, 2012 by stuartelden

Audio recording of a lecture with response and discussion, here. (Thanks to Sam Kinsley for the link) The controversy opposing “humanism” and “anti-humanism” was especially virulent in the 1960s and 70s in France, involving different tendencies of Phenomenology, Marxism, Structuralism … Continue reading →

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The Anarchist Turn – Simon Critchley

Posted on May 27, 2012 by stuartelden

The Butler videos I linked to earlier are part of a wider conference. Below is Simon Critchley’s introduction, which around 4 minutes in raises the question of anarchist geographers/ies and calls for ‘new maps’.   More videos from this conference … Continue reading →

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Marking finished

Posted on May 27, 2012 by stuartelden

Finally finished marking. Over the past month or so it’s been a lot of essays; 10 dissertations on topics from Portuguese music to Terry Pratchett novels to the war on terror; and 180 exam papers. These have been interspersed with quite … Continue reading →

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Marie-Eve Morin on Jean-Luc Nancy

Posted on May 27, 2012 by stuartelden

Polity has a page up for Marie-Eve Morin’s book on Nancy. Jean-Luc Nancy is one of the leading contemporary thinkers in France today. Through an inventive reappropriation of the major figures in the continental tradition, Nancy has developed an original … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 27, 2012 by stuartelden

The last part of the interview is here.

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London Conference in Critical Thought

Posted on May 27, 2012 by stuartelden

Birkbeck, 29-30 June 2012 -programme here; more details here. Papers on art, spaces, human rights, animals, bodies, Marx, Foucault, Deleuze, etc. etc.

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Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy discussion

Posted on May 25, 2012 by stuartelden

The discussion that followed Althusser’s famous ‘Lenin and Philosoophy’ lecture is freely available here, in Ted Stolze’s translation. Jean Wahl, Jean Hyppolite, Paul Ricoeur and others asking questions – thanks to David McInerney for the link.

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Call for Papers : Foucault and Mobilities Research

Posted on May 25, 2012 by stuartelden

A Two-Day Symposium, 6th and 7th of January 2013, Lucerne, Switzerland The publication in English and in German of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France in the years 1970-1984 has been a key driver of the recent renaissance … Continue reading →

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Deleuze in Taiwan

Posted on May 25, 2012 by stuartelden

Authorized by the journal Deleuze Studies, the First International Deleuze Studies in Asia Conference will be held in Tamsui, a historic site in the Taipei Metropolitan area, May 31-June 2, 2013. Deleuze Studies has also authorized The International Deleuze Studies Conferences … Continue reading →

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Judith Butler interview

Posted on May 24, 2012 by stuartelden

Interview in advance of her talk ‘A Politics of the Street’ in Vancouver.

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