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More free papers

Another five papers I have uploaded to this site: Elden, S. Heidegger’s Animals. Continental Philosophy Review. 2006;39:273-91. Elden, S. Kostas Axelos and the World of the Arguments Circle. In: Bourg, J. After the Deluge: New Perspectives on Postwar French Intellectual … Continue reading →

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Steve Mentz – A Poetics of Nothing

Steve Mentz, author of At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean, is turning to the question of air: ‘A Poetics of Nothing: Air in the Early Modern Imagination’. March 2nd, 2pm, CUNY Graduate Center. Details here.

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Anachronic Shakespeare

The Anachronic Shakespeare conference was excellent – a really interesting set of papers, engagingly delivered and with some really good discussion. John Archer gave a talk on sonnets 50 and 51 on the relation between human and animal, which he … Continue reading →

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The Geopolitics of King Lear: Territory, Land, Earth – audio

This is the audio recording of my lecture at the Anachronic Shakespeare conference. The accompanying Powerpoint slides are here. Thanks to Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz for the introduction. There was a good, challenging but helpful, discussion afterwards. The recording for that didn’t … Continue reading →

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New Perspectives on Bentham’s Panopticon

New book from Ashgate – Beyond Foucault: New Perspectives on Bentham’s Panopticon. Looks interesting, and especially for the largely Francophone contributors – shame about the prohibitive price. Clare O’Farrell wrote a preface. The intro is freely available here. (thanks to Foucault … Continue reading →

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Borders of Justice

Borders of Justice – new book edited by Étienne Balibar, Sandro Mezzadra and Ranabir Samaddar. You can read the introduction here.

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New York talks

Off to New York, probably my favourite city. Three talks over the next few days… 24-25 February 2012 – “The Geopolitics of King Lear: Territory, Land, Earth”, Anachronic Shakespeare conference, Poetics and Theory program, New York University 27 February 2012 … Continue reading →

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Outside Territory

This is the talk I’ll be giving at the ‘Extraterritoriality’ conference of the Exterritory project – Paris, May 2nd. This talk seeks to explore what it means to be outside territory. It does so in three registers. First, it discusses … Continue reading →

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Is your packaging really necessary?

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CRIPS annual lecture at Warwick

I’ll be giving the Critical International and Political Studies annual lecture at the University of Warwick in October 2012. It will be 10 years since I left the Politics and International Studies department at Warwick, and though I’ve been back for a few … Continue reading →

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