Category Archives: People

Foucault lectures

Posted on July 21, 2011 by stuartelden

Devin Shaw kindly links to my Berfrois review of Leçons sur la volonté de savoir. He mentions that I don’t elaborate on a point I make about the provenance of the material – “Unlike the other courses published to date, this … Continue reading →

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Review of Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir

Posted on July 20, 2011 by stuartelden

My review of Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir is available here.

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Berkeley and Arizona lectures on territory

Posted on July 16, 2011 by stuartelden

The flight for my Berkeley and University of Arizona lectures in September is now booked. The lectures will be under the title ‘How should we do the history of territory?’ – which some may spot is a tribute to the piece Ian … Continue reading →

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Two sides of Žižek

Posted on July 16, 2011 by stuartelden

Interview in The Guardian, and criticism of his views on Israel and Gaza in Counter Punch. [Update: there is also a short video of him on The Guardian website]

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This Is Not The End Of The Book

Posted on July 13, 2011 by stuartelden

Just finished reading Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carrière’s book-length series of dialogues This Is Not The End Of The Book. It’s an interesting, engaging and sometimes annoyingly showy discussion, ranging widely across book-related topics such as libraries, editing, publishing, private collections, … Continue reading →

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Derrida, Heidegger, Moretti

Posted on July 13, 2011 by stuartelden

The project of translating Derrida’s seminars has a website. It includes dates for forthcoming volumes. A set of audio and video recordings on and by Heidegger is now available here. Includes pieces by Gadamer, Sloterdijk and Fink (thanks to Enowning for the link). … Continue reading →

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Assange, Žižek, Goodman

Posted on July 12, 2011 by stuartelden

Julian Assange and Slavoj Žižek in dialogue with Amy Goodman here – there are plenty of excerpts on You Tube etc., but this is the full video recording.

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Leibniz’s work on life sciences

Posted on July 12, 2011 by stuartelden

Justin Smith – author of the excellent Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life (see my earlier comments here) – has a useful list of Leibniz’s works on natural science here.

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Novels read so far in 2011

Posted on July 10, 2011 by stuartelden

I mentioned back in January my informal New Year’s Resolution was to read more novels. Not nearly as many as Rob Kitchin – who has read and reviewed 52 – but so far in 2011, half way through the year, I’ve read… … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, H.P. Lovecraft, Novels read, Umberto Eco | 6 Comments

Reading Kant’s Geography paperback in September

Posted on July 10, 2011 by stuartelden

This is good news – a paperback is due in September, at just over a third of the price of the hardback. Details at the SUNY Press site.

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