Category Archives: People

Balibar, Brassier, Singularum

Posted on April 20, 2011 by stuartelden

Etienne Balibar’s recent talk ‘Eleven Theses on Marx and Marxism’ at CRMEP is available here.  (via Infinite Thought) Interview with Ray Brassier here (via Speculative Heresy) And a new journal Singularum has been founded. It looks nice and the site is worth … Continue reading →

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The Foucault Effect 1991-2011

Posted on April 13, 2011 by stuartelden

Over at Foucault News, Clare has the details of a very interesting conference coming up in London. THE FOUCAULT EFFECT 1991-2011 A Conference at Birkbeck, University of London: Date: Friday 3 – Saturday 4 June 2011 Venue: Clore Lecture Theatre, … Continue reading →

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Sloterdijk Now revisions submitted

Posted on April 12, 2011 by stuartelden

The revisions to the manuscript of Sloterdijk Now, following comments from two referees and the series editor, have now been made. The book is back to the press. This has been a pretty quick turnaround – it was only submitted … Continue reading →

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Miéville and Bryant

Posted on April 11, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting review of China Miéville’s The City and the City in The Boston Review (via Crooked Timber). Levi Bryant discusses his next book project The Domestication of Humans: A Prolegomena to Posthumanist Sociology, here. The link? Both touch on themes I … Continue reading →

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Not going to the AAG

Posted on April 11, 2011 by stuartelden

As I’ve written in lots of personal emails recently, no, I’m not going to the AAG in Seattle. The main reason is that I wanted to make the most of Australia, which I am visiting for only the second time, rather than … Continue reading →

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Edinburgh University Press philosophy

Posted on April 5, 2011 by stuartelden

Edinburgh University Press have a new philosophy catalogue out. Lots of really interesting books in there – Graham Harman’s book on Meillassoux launches the new Speculative Realism series; plus Gerald Moore’s book on The Politics of the Gift (endorsed by … Continue reading →

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Ruddick and Macherey free access

Posted on April 5, 2011 by stuartelden

Following the recent  interview with Susan Ruddick about translating Pierre Macherey, Society and Space has made two more texts free access to non-subscribers. They both come from Macherey’s forthcoming book Hegel or Spinoza (University of Minnesota Press), and are Sue’s introduction and … Continue reading →

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Society and Space free access highlight papers

Posted on April 5, 2011 by stuartelden

These have been available for a while, but there are a number of papers in Society and Space that are free access as highlights of recently published work. They include papers by Judith Butler; Peter Sloterdijk; Naomi Klein and Neil … Continue reading →

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Nancy, Badiou, Connolly on contemporary events

Posted on April 4, 2011 by stuartelden

Jean-Luc Nancy supports the war in Libya (some excerpts in English here); which Alain Badiou criticises here. William Connolly takes a broader view of ‘The Politics of the Event’ here.

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China Miéville on Fiction and Politics

Posted on April 3, 2011 by stuartelden

The Weird: a discussion of fiction and politics with China Miéville here. Discussion based, rather than a formal talk, but his answers are detailed and there is a lot of interesting stuff here about genres in literature, political symbolism of … Continue reading →

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