Category Archives: People

Two more Sloterdijk chapters

Posted on January 18, 2011 by stuartelden

Two more Sloterdijk chapters are now in final, pre-review, form. The first is by Babette Babich and discusses Sloterdijk’s cynicism; the second by Eduardo Mendieta on the humanism/posthumanism/transhumanism debates. Both discuss Sloterdijk’s relation to Nietzsche, and the Mendieta chapter discusses his engagement … Continue reading →

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Marx Reloaded trailer

Posted on January 17, 2011 by stuartelden

Featuring Slavoj Žižek, Antonio Negri, Nina Power, Alberto Toscano… Trotsky as Morpheus is good too.

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Badiou interviews Foucault

Posted on January 17, 2011 by stuartelden

Thanks to Sean at Te Ipu Pakore for the link – a very young Badiou, and a fairly young Foucault (with hair). It’s in French, but if you click ‘cc’ you can get English subtitles.

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Badiou (and Žižek) on Wagner

Posted on January 15, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve just finished reading Alain Badiou’s new book, Five Lessons on Wagner. I approached it expecting to learn more about Badiou than Wagner, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. A few clues aside, without his name on the cover I’d … Continue reading →

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Espacios del pasado, historias del presente

Posted on January 15, 2011 by stuartelden

Just gone over the first version of the proofs of “Espacios del pasado, historias del presente: en torno a los rastros de la historia espacial [Spaces of the past, histories of the present: debating the traces of spatial history]”, which … Continue reading →

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Speculative Medievalisms

Posted on January 15, 2011 by stuartelden

I spent yesterday at the Speculative Medievalisms workshop at King’s College, London. I’d left it late to reserve a place, not knowing if I could make it, and it was full. But fortunately a space opened up for me. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Gilles Deleuze, Giorgio Agamben, Graham Harman, Medieval Studies, Michel Foucault, Quentin Meillassoux | 2 Comments

A day of minor things

Posted on January 13, 2011 by stuartelden

Yesterday was the busiest day yet on this blog, though of course it was mainly to see a post that I didn’t write. I’m sure that I should have followed up today with some insightful thoughts or hard-hitting polemics, but … Continue reading →

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Bartolus consilia found

Posted on January 13, 2011 by stuartelden

A week ago I discussed the last few references I’ve been trying to find for The Birth of Territory. I’m back at the British Library today, and thought I would just check one more time. And I found the Bartolus … Continue reading →

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Harman on Writing

Posted on January 11, 2011 by stuartelden

Really interesting piece here from Graham Harman on writing. I’m firmly of the view that academics don’t talk enough about the mechanics of writing, and that they only way that we can work out practices that work best for us … Continue reading →

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Foucault and Heidegger videos

Posted on January 11, 2011 by stuartelden

There is lots of stuff of Foucault on Youtube, but I’d not seen this before. http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=2490966830447709021&hl=en&fs=true It’s Foucault at l’Université Catholique de Louvain in 1981, at the time he gave the “Mal faire, dire vrai” lectures. Many thanks to Clare … Continue reading →

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