Category Archives: People

Graham Harman interview

Posted on July 12, 2010 by stuartelden

A new and detailed Graham Harman interview can be found here. Well worth a read.

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Jean Bodin

Posted on July 12, 2010 by stuartelden

I think I may finally have finished with Jean Bodin. Bodin’s Six Livres de la République is probably more talked about than read, and there is no modern English translation of the complete work. (There is an abridged edition from … Continue reading →

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Foucault and the Family – Cambridge conference

Posted on July 10, 2010 by stuartelden

This looks interesting – unfortunately can’t make it but may be of interest to some. Details below and poster here. Foucault, the Family and Politics Friday, 12 November 2010, Kings College, Keynes Hall, Cambridge Attendance free – but please register. … Continue reading →

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Roundup – Zizek, Harvey, Tour de France

Posted on July 9, 2010 by stuartelden

You can watch a video of Zizek on Newsnight here You can download the first chapter of David Harvey’s Companion to Marx’s Capital here Tour de France – Mark Cavendish won again!

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Initial thoughts on Andreas Knichen

Posted on July 9, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve been slowly struggling my way through Andreas Knichen’s 1600 book, De sublimi et regio territorii iure synoptica tractatio. Knichen was a German jurist and political advisor. Some thoughts:- – Knichen explicitly links the notion of Landeshoheit with superioritas territorialis. … Continue reading →

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Foucault

Posted on July 8, 2010 by stuartelden

Clare O’Farrell has a quotation from Foucault’s recently translated 1982-83 lecture course, The Government of Self and Others, up on her Foucault site, and a brief discussion here. It seems to me that the philosophical choice confronting us today is the … Continue reading →

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Zizek (again)

Posted on July 6, 2010 by stuartelden

The Verso blog has a round up of Zizek media events. His ‘Living in the End Times’ at the LSE lecture is available here. He will be on Newsnight on Wednesday 7 July, and This Week on Thursday 8 July.

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Taking Place – new book

Posted on July 6, 2010 by stuartelden

Two colleagues at Durham, Ben Anderson and Paul Harrison, have a new edited book out – Taking Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography. It’s published by Ashgate, and more info can be found here. You can download the book’s introduction for … Continue reading →

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Zizek in The Telegraph

Posted on July 6, 2010 by stuartelden

Interviewed here.

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Alberto Toscano – Fanaticism

Posted on July 4, 2010 by stuartelden

Just finished reading Alberto Toscano’s book Fanaticism. A very interesting book and a great project – a kind of genealogy or conceptual history of the uses and abuses of the term. Lots of interesting ideas and a lot to take … Continue reading →

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