Category Archives: People

‘Radical Foucault’

Posted on November 8, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve just agreed to be one of the keynote speakers at an interesting looking conference coming up at the University of East London on 9 September 2011. I plan to speak about the as-yet-unpublished 70-71 lecture course Leçons sur la volonté de … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s first course

Posted on November 8, 2010 by stuartelden

Well, the first at the Collège de France. Amazon.fr have Foucault’s 1970-71 lecture course listed. It’s entitled Leçons sur la volonté de savoir – the ‘Leçons sur’ bit is presumably to avoid confusion with History of Sexuality volume I, when … Continue reading →

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Roundup – Guantánamo, Newcastle lectures, Foucault and space

Posted on November 8, 2010 by stuartelden

This is a bit of an ex-colleagues from Durham roundup. David Campbell has an interesting piece here on Edmund Clark’s Guantánamo exhibition and book. I’d seen some of the photographs themselves in The Guardian – here – but David’s commentary is … Continue reading →

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Books – availability

Posted on November 7, 2010 by stuartelden

Terror and Territory has now been out for a year, and is into its second printing. Despite how the Continuum website portrays my Mapping the Present and Understanding Henri Lefebvre, the books are not out of print, but out of … Continue reading →

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Back to Ohio

Posted on November 7, 2010 by stuartelden

With the travelling I’ve not had much chance to write about my own work recently, and have largely been using this blog as an information service. I have been working on the book during and around the travel, and there will … Continue reading →

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Graham Harman writing news

Posted on November 7, 2010 by stuartelden

He reports here how he’s finished the book on Meillassoux, has a new piece in Cosmos and History, and talks about where he is going next: My next book project, which I cannot begin until the January holiday period, will be … Continue reading →

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Mendieta on Habermas and religion

Posted on November 6, 2010 by stuartelden

To coincide with the new book he co-edited on this topic, Eduardo Mendieta discusses Habermas and religion. The centrality of religion to social theory in general and philosophy in particular explains why Jürgen Habermas has dealt with it, in both … Continue reading →

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Carl Schmitt symposium in Holland

Posted on November 6, 2010 by stuartelden

Carl Schmitt and Space, 3 December 2010 Socio-spatial analysis chair group, Wageningen university Room GAIA 1, Gaia Building, Wageningen University Map and travel description: http://www.wur.nl/UK/contact/route/ In recent years there has been an explosion of literature and debate around the work … Continue reading →

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Harman’s Meillassoux book

Posted on November 3, 2010 by stuartelden

Graham reports on the final stages of his Quentin Meillassoux: Philosophy in the Making book here. Sounds terrific.

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Wu Ming 1 on Foucault in Iran

Posted on November 2, 2010 by stuartelden

Find it here. Two excerpts… In October 1978, Michel Foucault (hereafter cited as MF) visited Iran. The country was already shaken by street protests against the Shah. The regime was brutally repressing demonstrations, with the only result of strengthening the … Continue reading →

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