Category Archives: People

Justin E.H. Smith on Fossils as an Epistemological Problem

Posted on October 17, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting abstract for a paper here. Smith is the author of the excellent Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life, which I’ve mentioned here before. While Smith’s interest in fossils, at least in this paper, looks at epistemology, and … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies 12

Posted on October 14, 2011 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies 12 has now been published. You can find the table of contents here. There is a theme section on race, some papers on neoliberalism, lots of reviews. There is also a translation of a revealing interview with Foucault’s … Continue reading →

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Elster on Leibniz and capitalism

Posted on October 13, 2011 by stuartelden

I first read Jon Elster as an undergraduate – Barbara Goodwin recommended his books Sour Grapes and Ulysses and the Sirens in her political theory class. Elster is also known as an analytical Marxist in works like Making Sense of … Continue reading →

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Lovecraft for Beginners

Posted on October 13, 2011 by stuartelden

Update: I originally got this from the Brooks blog, but to find the whole thing, you can go here. Thanks to Graham Harman for the link to the book as a whole.

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Speculative Realism – Patricia Clough, Jane Bennett, Levi Bryant, Graham Harman

Posted on October 13, 2011 by stuartelden

Patricia Clough, Jane Bennett, Levi Bryant, Graham Harman Speculative Realism – Part One from The Center for the Humanities on Vimeo. Speculative Realism – Part Two from The Center for the Humanities on Vimeo. (via Larval Subjects)

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Henri Lefebvre – Vers un romantisme révolutionnaire

Posted on October 13, 2011 by stuartelden

I had thought the French re-editions of Lefebvre had dried up, but the brief text ‘Vers un romantisme révolutionnaire’, first published in 1957 in Nouvelle revue française, is just out in a new edition, with a ‘présentation’ by Rémi et … Continue reading →

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First week teaching

Posted on October 12, 2011 by stuartelden

Back to teaching, and good to be back in the classroom. In the first term our weeks run Thursday-Wednesday (which is confusing) so as my teaching is on Friday, Tuesday and Wednesday this means I’ve just finished the first week. … Continue reading →

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David Macey

Posted on October 11, 2011 by stuartelden

Some sad news. David Macey, author of the best biography of Foucault, translator of Society Must Be Defended and author of Lacan in Contexts, among other works, has died. The Verso blog has the news and more details. he was … Continue reading →

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Ennis on Meillassoux and more

Posted on October 11, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting interview with Paul Ennis at Fractured Politics. Lots about Meillassoux and speculative realism, but interesting discussions of being a (post-)grad student, and publishing and networking early in career. And there is a nice comment about me at the beginning.

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Slavoj Žižek at Occupy Wall Street

Posted on October 10, 2011 by stuartelden

The videos are hard work as the crowd repeats every line after he’s said it – did no-one think to provide a microphone or loudhailer? – though as one of the commentators said, it’s a shame they didn’t also do … Continue reading →

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