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Justin Smith – Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life

Posted on May 27, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve been looking forward to Justin Smith’s Divine Machines book on Leibniz for a while. I previously mentioned it here in relation to Glenn Hartz’s book Leibniz’s Final System: Monads, Matter, Animals; and also provided a link when John Protevi interviewed Smith. … Continue reading →

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Territorial Masquerades

Posted on May 27, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting newish blog called Territorial Masquerades by an anonymous political geographer . Mainly notes from reading so far. There are discussions of Lefebvre’s State, Space, World and the Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography collection I co-edited, along with lots … Continue reading →

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New Heidegger journal

Posted on May 27, 2011 by stuartelden

Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual – first issue now out. Pieces by Thomas Sheehan, Richard Polt and Andrew Mitchell, among others.

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Foucault – Leçons sur la volonté de savoir

Posted on May 27, 2011 by stuartelden

As exciting as the English version of The Courage of Truth is, the real news in Foucault studies this year is surely the publication of Leçons sur la volonté de savoir. I gave this an initial, fairly fast, read on … Continue reading →

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Connolly ‘A World of Becoming’ workshop

Posted on May 27, 2011 by stuartelden

Very enjoyable workshop on William E. Connolly’s A World of Becoming yesterday. One of the striking things was how different the various papers were, picking on lots of aspects of the book and taking them in a range of directions. … Continue reading →

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Foucault, The Courage of Truth and the Cynics

Posted on May 25, 2011 by stuartelden

Foucault’s lecture course The Courage of Truth from 1984 has now been published. I was incredibly flattered to be asked to write one of the blurbs for the back cover. Obviously my endorsement wasn’t to encourage people to read Foucault, so I took the … Continue reading →

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Heidegger – The Concept of Time

Posted on May 25, 2011 by stuartelden

From the Continuum blog:   Furthering still our long-standing series of Heidegger translations, we have recently published The Concept of Time, translated by Ingo Farin (University of Tasmania), which any Heideggerian will no doubt want to add to his or her … Continue reading →

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Meaning of Maghreb? – Zizek, Habashi, Amin, Harvey, Bauman

Posted on May 24, 2011 by stuartelden

Serious intellectual firepower on the stage together here. Slavoj Žižek, Samir Amin, David Harvey, Mamdouh Habashi, and Zygmunt Bauman discuss the Maghreb. http://www.youtube.com/embed/TN-O09WhKko Via Reading Capital with David Harvey

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New books

Posted on May 23, 2011 by stuartelden

A whole big pile of books arrived over the last few months while I’ve been away. Some of them are ones I have chapters in; one I endorsed; most are ones I asked for in recompense for review work; some … Continue reading →

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Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt

Posted on May 22, 2011 by stuartelden

The Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos collection, edited by Stephen Legg, is now out. The writings of Carl Schmitt are now indissociable from both an historical period and a contemporary moment. He will forever be remembered … Continue reading →

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