Category Archives: People

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects

Posted on September 25, 2011 by stuartelden

I mentioned the conference of this name before, and linked to audio recordings (here, here and here); now the book is coming out with Oliphaunt Books, an impress of Punctum Books. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is the editor and posts more details here. … Continue reading →

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Anti-Security – edited book

Posted on September 24, 2011 by stuartelden

Mentioning Mark Neocleous (who supervised my PhD) reminded me that he has a new edited book just out, with George S. Rigakos, entitled Anti-Security.

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Nicholas Blomley on Sidewalks, Police and the City

Posted on September 24, 2011 by stuartelden

An interesting piece freely available here. The piece looks at ‘police’ in a broader sense than just the police force, and discusses Mark Neocleous’s work on this topic, especially his The Fabrication of Social Order: A Critical Theory of Police Power. … Continue reading →

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Camus, ‘Reflections on the Guillotine’ (more)

Posted on September 24, 2011 by stuartelden

Thanks to the kindness of Nicholas Dahmann, I’ve been sent a copy of the Camus piece mentioned in the last post. (I already have the book it is in, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death, on order, so this merely sped up … Continue reading →

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Camus, ‘Reflections on the Guillotine’

Posted on September 23, 2011 by stuartelden

Eduardo Mendieta suggests that Albert Camus’s ‘Reflections on the Guillotine’ is worth another look. Of course the French debate happened some time ago, but not that long ago – one of the things Foucault did when involved with the Groupe … Continue reading →

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The Killings of Troy Davis

Posted on September 23, 2011 by stuartelden

Like many people I’ve been fascinated and horrified by the case of Troy Davis. Davis was found guilty of the 1989 murder of an off-duty policeman, who had gone to the defence of a man being beaten. Davis was convicted … Continue reading →

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Israel/Palestine maps

Posted on September 23, 2011 by stuartelden

Whatever else the Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN has achieved, it has brought discussion back to the centre of attention. The cartography of the region is, of course, highly political. This new piece in Political Geography (“Trapped in … Continue reading →

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Interview with Ladelle McWhorter at New APPS

Posted on September 23, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting interview conducted by John Protevi here. McWhorter is best known – to me at least – for her book Bodies and Pleasures: Foucault and the Politics of Sexual Normalization; but has a more recent book out entitled Racism and Sexual … Continue reading →

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Foucault and Meillassoux

Posted on September 21, 2011 by stuartelden

After a hugely frustrating day on teaching bureaucracy (assessment proformas, reading lists, online teaching sites, etc.) amazon.fr sends me an email saying they’ve just sent my copies of Quentin Meillassoux, Le nombre et la sirène (on Mallarmé, released today) and Foucault … Continue reading →

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Louden’s Kant’s Human Being reviewed

Posted on September 20, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned Robert B. Louden’s Kant’s Human Being: Essays on His Theory of Human Nature before. It reprints his piece from the Reading Kant’s Geography collection, and is reviewed by NDPR here.

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