Category Archives: People

Foucault on Politics, Security and War short review

Posted on August 29, 2011 by stuartelden

Foucault on Politics, Security and War came out in paperback earlier this year. There is a brief review at the LSE ‘Politics and Policy’ blog. I have a piece in this collection that I think is one of my best pieces on … Continue reading →

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Book Series news

Posted on August 29, 2011 by stuartelden

Speculative Heresy has news of a book series on biopolitics and community with Fordham University Press. It is edited by Timothy Campbell, and looks like it will mainly comprise translations, with forthcoming titles including ones by Jean-Luc Nancy and Roberto Esposito. … Continue reading →

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Background reading on the English riots

Posted on August 26, 2011 by stuartelden

Two of the best pieces I read on the recent English riots were by Owen Hatherley and Owen Jones. Their recently published books (both with Verso) are really worth reading as background to the context in which these events took … Continue reading →

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Cities for People, Not for Profit

Posted on August 26, 2011 by stuartelden

Very interesting collection forthcoming in October – Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City, edited by Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse and Margit Mayet – book details here. While on this topic, Kurt Iveson … Continue reading →

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Foucault audio

Posted on August 26, 2011 by stuartelden

A collection of audio recordings of Foucault – in both English and French – can be found here (via Clare O’Farrell’s Foucault News blog). Some of these have been available before, and some of the dates are wrong. The last ’11 … Continue reading →

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Perry Anderson on the historical novel

Posted on August 25, 2011 by stuartelden

Fairly interesting piece in the London Review of Books – discussing the differences between Lukács and Jameson’s Marxist accounts of the historical novel and examples such as Tolstoy, Scott, Lampedusa and Dumas.

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Strange review of Widder

Posted on August 22, 2011 by stuartelden

In borderlands, there is an odd review of Nathan Widder, Reflections on Time and Politics. Its strangest moment is in the final lines, when the author discredits their own review by pointing to a better one elsewhere, but the attempt … Continue reading →

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Slavoj Žižek on English riots

Posted on August 22, 2011 by stuartelden

In the LRB (via the Verso blog). Well worth a read, and it ranges quite widely to Egypt and the financial crisis, among other things. It does exhibit the general tendency that people looking into the events tend to find what they … Continue reading →

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Harman’s Meillassoux book

Posted on August 19, 2011 by stuartelden

Graham Harman’s new book Quentin Meillassoux: Philosophy in the Making has been out for less than a month, and I’ve now had a chance to read it. The structure of the book is reasonably straight-forward – chapters on After Finitude, the … Continue reading →

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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen on Writing

Posted on August 19, 2011 by stuartelden

Posts I’ve made on writing, i.e. here and here, have received some of the most attention of any on this blog. So people may find Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s post on writing useful. Lots of examples, good advice, and personal recollections.

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