Category Archives: People

Babich and Richardson on Heidegger

Posted on October 21, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting discussion between Babette Babich and William J. Richardson on Heidegger’s Being and Time. There is some discussion at the beginning on the relation between Aristotle and Heidegger and a brief comment on Brentano’s influence. via Enowning.

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Human Geography – Fundamentals of Geography

Posted on October 20, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned this before, but there is now a pdf advertising this new major reference work, edited by Derek Gregory and Noel Castree, that gathers together 85 previously published pieces across the breadth of human geography. While the price means it … Continue reading →

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OWS and elsewhere

Posted on October 20, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve not been following recent events in New York and elsewehere especially closely, but here are a few interesting links. Hardt and Negri on ‘Real Democracy’ in Foreign Affairs. Oliver Belcher provides a genealogy and reading list here. Lenin’s Tomb … Continue reading →

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Polity blog on Sloterdijk Now

Posted on October 17, 2011 by stuartelden

 A few comments from me here.

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Complete Works of Nietzsche – another volume

Posted on October 17, 2011 by stuartelden

Finally! Twelve years after the last volume a new volume of the Stanford Complete Works of Nietzsche is published. This is only the fourth volume of a planned 20 volume edition translating the 15 volume Kritische Gesamtausgabe. The new volume is Dawn, … Continue reading →

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Justin E.H. Smith on Fossils as an Epistemological Problem

Posted on October 17, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting abstract for a paper here. Smith is the author of the excellent Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life, which I’ve mentioned here before. While Smith’s interest in fossils, at least in this paper, looks at epistemology, and … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies 12

Posted on October 14, 2011 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies 12 has now been published. You can find the table of contents here. There is a theme section on race, some papers on neoliberalism, lots of reviews. There is also a translation of a revealing interview with Foucault’s … Continue reading →

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Elster on Leibniz and capitalism

Posted on October 13, 2011 by stuartelden

I first read Jon Elster as an undergraduate – Barbara Goodwin recommended his books Sour Grapes and Ulysses and the Sirens in her political theory class. Elster is also known as an analytical Marxist in works like Making Sense of … Continue reading →

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Lovecraft for Beginners

Posted on October 13, 2011 by stuartelden

Update: I originally got this from the Brooks blog, but to find the whole thing, you can go here. Thanks to Graham Harman for the link to the book as a whole.

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Speculative Realism – Patricia Clough, Jane Bennett, Levi Bryant, Graham Harman

Posted on October 13, 2011 by stuartelden

Patricia Clough, Jane Bennett, Levi Bryant, Graham Harman Speculative Realism – Part One from The Center for the Humanities on Vimeo. Speculative Realism – Part Two from The Center for the Humanities on Vimeo. (via Larval Subjects)

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