Category Archives: People

Books received – Kristeva, Lévi-Strauss, Huffer, Palti, Löwith, Barthes, Stanek

Posted on September 1, 2020 by stuartelden

Some books in recompense for review work from Columbia University Press, and a copy of Łukasz Stanek, Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa and the Middle East in the Cold War, sent by the publisher.

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Abolition: Critique and Praxis 13/13 including session on ‘Beyond the Punitive Society’

Posted on August 25, 2020 by stuartelden

The next season of the Critique and Praxis: 13/13 seminars run by Bernard Harcourt at Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought will be on the theme of Abolition. The series will include a session on Thursday, January 7, 2021 on … Continue reading →

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The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche Vol 9 – The Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo / Dionysus Dithyrambs / Nietzsche Contra Wagner – Stanford University Press, January 2021

Posted on August 25, 2020 by stuartelden

The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche Vol 9 – The Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo / Dionysus Dithyrambs / Nietzsche Contra Wagner – Stanford University Press, January 2021 The latest volume … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, ‘Terrain, Politics, History’ – Dialogues in Human Geography lecture now available in journal

Posted on August 24, 2020 by stuartelden

Last year I gave the Dialogues in Human Geography lecture at the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers conference in London. It is now available in the journal as ‘Terrain, Politics, History‘ – if you can’t access through an institution … Continue reading →

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Louise Amoore, “Why ‘Ditch the algorithm’ is the future of political protest”, The Guardian

Posted on August 24, 2020 by stuartelden

Louise Amoore, “Why ‘Ditch the algorithm’ is the future of political protest“, The Guardian I was away last week, and followed the news of A-level results, GCSEs, BTECs and the impact on students and universities from a distance. Whether or … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 2: The Birth of the Clinic, a trip to Paris, working on courses on Sexuality and Les mots et les choses

Posted on August 14, 2020 by stuartelden

While I continue to find focus a challenge as the world lurches from one crisis to another, I’ve been doing various bits of work for this book on Foucault’s work in the 1960s. I continued work on the comparison of … Continue reading →

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Joseph Confavreux interviews Achille Mbembe about Brutalisme at New Frame

Posted on August 12, 2020 by stuartelden

Joseph Confavreux interview with Achille Mbembe about Brutalisme at New Frame  

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Matt Bluemink, Bernard Stiegler: in memoriam (3am Magazine)

Posted on August 12, 2020 by stuartelden

Matt Bluemink, Bernard Stiegler: in memoriam (3am Magazine) On Thursday the 6th of August 2020 we lost one of the most unique and important philosophers of the last thirty years. To me, Bernard Stiegler was a constant source of knowledge … Continue reading →

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Books received – Mauss, Davidson, Dubuisson, Schrift, Sartre, Hannah, Derrida, Prideaux

Posted on August 11, 2020 by stuartelden

Mainly some books from Routledge in recompense for review work, including Matthew Hannah, Direction and Socio-Spatial Theory, but also Alastair Davidson’s Antonio Gramsci: Towards an Intellectual Biography, Tel Quel 17 – to which Foucault contributed, Derrida’s Le calcul des langues, and Sue Prideaux’s Strindberg: A Life.

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Robert Boncardo on the sixtieth anniversary of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason

Posted on August 10, 2020 by stuartelden

Robert Boncardo on the sixtieth anniversary of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason at the Verso blog. Celebrating its sixtieth birthday this year, and enjoying a new print run thanks to Verso Books, the first volume of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique … Continue reading →

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