Category Archives: People

Wanted: audiotapes of Foucault’s 1973 lectures

Posted on October 10, 2011 by stuartelden

reposted from Clare O’Farrell’s Foucault News blog: The French publishing houses, Le Seuil and Gallimard, publishers of the official edition of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France, are seeking copies of any cassette tape recordings that might have … Continue reading →

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Harman, Clough, Masciandaro audio

Posted on October 10, 2011 by stuartelden

Graham Harman’s talk to Speculative Medievalisms is now available, along with Patricia Clough’s response and Nicola Masciandaro’s closing comments. You can stream or download the audio here. Eileen Joy provides some background and links to the earlier talks here.

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Gibbon on Leibniz

Posted on October 9, 2011 by stuartelden

Edward Gibbon praises Leibniz as “a bold and original spirit” in his “Antiquities of the House of Brunswick”, in Miscellaneous Works, Vol III, 1796, p. 402. This is mentioned by Lewis W. Spitz in his helpful essay “The Significance of Leibniz … Continue reading →

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‘Land, Terrain, Territory’ in Hebrew

Posted on October 9, 2011 by stuartelden

My ‘Land, Terrain, Territory’ paper is coming out in Hebrew translation. It will be in issue 4 of  Mafte’akh: Lexical Review of Political Thought  – a project based out of the Minerva Humanities Center at Tel Aviv University. It will appear under a … Continue reading →

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John Protevi interviews Graham Harman

Posted on October 6, 2011 by stuartelden

John Protevi interviews Graham Harman at the New APPS blog.

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Judith Butler on the Politics of the Street text

Posted on October 5, 2011 by stuartelden

I mentioned the video of Judith Butler’s lecture “The Politics of the Street and New Forms of Alliance” earlier this week; now you can read the text – thanks again to Ayşe Mermutlu for the links. Update: The text is available here

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Roundup – Sebald, Books, Speculative Realist Literary Criticism, Occupy Wall Street, Zizek on TV

Posted on October 5, 2011 by stuartelden

Some interesting stuff I’ve recently come across… A retrospective ten years after W.G. Sebald’s death in The Times Higher Education (via Continental Philosophy). Interesting reading, especially on his resistance to the bureaucratisation of higher education. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen offers some interesting … Continue reading →

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Derrida vs. Searle

Posted on October 4, 2011 by stuartelden

A book shelf showdown:- Jacques Derrida’s shelves of his own publications vs. John Searle’s. Looks like Derrida wins this one too. This was an art installation – details here (via here).

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Judith Butler on the politics of the street

Posted on October 3, 2011 by stuartelden

Video of a lecture “The Politics of the Street and New Forms of Alliance” here – thanks to Ayşe Mermutlu for the link. Update: The text is available here

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Shapiro on Foucault

Posted on September 29, 2011 by stuartelden

Recording of an interview with Stephen Shapiro – co-author of new book How to Read Foucault’s Discipline and Punish – is available here. Interesting discussion of what Foucault is doing, and links to contemporary events and questions. The discussion of higher … Continue reading →

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