Category Archives: People

Histories of Violence

Posted on September 2, 2011 by stuartelden

That Massumi lecture is part of a series, including pieces by Bauman and Chomsky, which is itself part of a wider project run by Brad Evans at University of Leeds on ‘Histories of Violence’. The project has a website here, though … Continue reading →

Posted in Michael Hardt, Noam Chomsky, Politics, Simon Critchley, Stephen Graham | 1 Comment

Lectures on Foucault

Posted on September 1, 2011 by stuartelden

I give two different lectures on Foucault this month. One is at the Radical Foucault conference in London (8th-9th Sept), and then the second is given at both UC Berkeley and University of Arizona the following week. The paper for … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Michel Foucault, teaching, Territory, The Birth of Territory, The Space of the World | 3 Comments

Nigel Thrift on blogging, academic communication and the formation of new fields

Posted on September 1, 2011 by stuartelden

At the Chronicle of Higher Education blog. Speculative Realism is the spur to the reflections, but the points are broader. Thanks to ANTHEM for the link.

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Butler on Arendt

Posted on August 29, 2011 by stuartelden

Butler on Arendt in The Guardian. The occasion is 50 years since Arendt saw the Adolf Eichmann trial. [update – just seen that she is speaking  in September in a paper that discusses Arendt. The videos of past events, including … Continue reading →

Posted in Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in David Harvey, Politics, Society and Space | 3 Comments

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 →

Posted in David Harvey, Edward Soja, Henri Lefebvre, Neil Brenner | 1 Comment

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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