Category Archives: People

David Harvey – ‘The Party of Wall Street Meets its Nemesis’

Posted on October 29, 2011 by stuartelden

At the Verso blog.

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End of October

Posted on October 28, 2011 by stuartelden

October has been a slog. I’ve now done half of my teaching for this academic year. In one month. Okay, this means that the rest of the year is going to be relatively easy on that front, but naturally there … Continue reading →

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Kentucky Committee on Social Theory lectures

Posted on October 28, 2011 by stuartelden

The three other lectures in the University of Kentucky’s Committee on Social Theory spring 2012 series will be given by Michael Hardt, Russ Castronovo and Jane Guyer. Details here. Those are terrific names, and the shame of it – for … Continue reading →

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Noel Castree reviews Reading Kant’s Geography

Posted on October 28, 2011 by stuartelden

In the Annals of the Association of American Geographers (requires subscription). Some bits: This excellent book, which oozes scholarly seriousness from start to finish, offers something new to philosophers and geographers alike. It focuses on Kant’s extensive lecture notes about … Continue reading →

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Critchley on Hamlet

Posted on October 26, 2011 by stuartelden

Thomas posted this as a comment to an earlier post, but since many people read this in ways where comments don’t show up, I’m reposting here, and have embedded the video below. You can see Critchley’s lecture on Hamlet at … Continue reading →

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Judith Butler at Occupy Wall Street

Posted on October 24, 2011 by stuartelden

Judith Butler briefly speaking, amplified by the ‘human microphone’. via John Protevi at New APPS – who offers some interesting thoughts here.

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Graham Harman interview

Posted on October 24, 2011 by stuartelden

New interview with Graham Harman here – his own work, poetry, art, politics, OWS, China Miéville, H.P. Lovecraft, etc. Some particularly interesting discussion of writing. Since he discusses Lovecraft and the book he has coming out on him, what better … Continue reading →

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Critchley on Shakespeare

Posted on October 24, 2011 by stuartelden

Simon Critchley is leading a summer school on Shakespeare and Philosophy in Tilburg next year. It’s for graduate students and you can find details here (via Continental Philosophy bulletin board). Critchley’s own lectures will focus on Hamlet – but discussions look … Continue reading →

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Topology at the Tate Modern

Posted on October 21, 2011 by stuartelden

A series of talks from 5 November 2011 to 12 May 2012: Giorgio Agamben, Etienne Balibar, Rosi Braidotti, Drucilla Cornell, Olafur Eliasson, David Harvey, Bruno Latour, Achille Mbembe, Ernesto Neto, Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Peter Weibel are among the … Continue reading →

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Foucault on the disciplinary society

Posted on October 21, 2011 by stuartelden

Just an audio recording, but Foucault on Discipline and Punish and what he was showing in that book – in English. I played the first five minutes to my students today to help explain the relation between the prison and … Continue reading →

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