Category Archives: Politics

Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual – special issue on the Black Notebooks

Posted on May 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual – special issue on the – Black Notebooks. Contents at above link, or download whole issue as pdf.   

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#AAG2015 in Chicago – a few final thoughts

Posted on April 25, 2015 by stuartelden

Very enjoyable conference in Chicago over the last several days. I’ve said a bit about the two sessions I spoke in – on Ebola and terrain – before. It was a good conference, with some excellent papers. A particular highlight was … Continue reading →

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Sessions on Ebola and Terrain at the AAG 

Posted on April 24, 2015 by stuartelden

I was part of a session on the geopolitics of Ebola at the Association of American Geographers earlier this week. Annoyingly, the AAG scheduled this at 8am on the first day of the conference – hardly an appropriate time for … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 21: a second book on The Birth of Power

Posted on April 23, 2015 by stuartelden

There have been some major changes to the project since the last update. I’ve held back this post until the situation was clearer. When I initially proposed the Foucault’s Last Decade book to Polity, it was to have an opening … Continue reading →

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Jeff Malpas, On the Reading of Heidegger – Situating the Black Notebooks

Posted on April 16, 2015 by stuartelden

Jeff Malpas, “On the Reading of Heidegger – Situating the Black Notebooks” at academia.edu. This is the draft introduction to a forthcoming collection on the Notebooks, co-edited with Ingo Farin. Thanks to Enowning for the link. Peter Gratton comments at … Continue reading →

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Volha Piotukh, Biopolitics, Governmentality and Humanitarianism: ‘Caring’ for the Population in Afghanistan and Belarus

Posted on April 16, 2015 by stuartelden

Volha Piotukh, Biopolitics, Governmentality and Humanitarianism: ‘Caring’ for the Population in Afghanistan and Belarus. This book critically analyses the changing role and nature of post-Cold War humanitarianism, using Foucault’s theories of biopolitics and governmentality. It offers a compelling and insightful … Continue reading →

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The Funambulist Papers Volume 2 – print on demand and open access e-book

Posted on April 10, 2015 by stuartelden

The Funambulist Papers Volume 2, edited by Léopold Lambert is now available as print on demand and open access e-book from Punctum Books. I have an essay in it, along with Derek Gregory, Gastón Gordillo, Grégoire Chamayou, Erin Manning, Elena Loizidou and many others. … Continue reading →

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Charlotte Epstein on The Birth of Territory at Progress in Political Economy

Posted on April 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Progress in Political Economy have posted one of the papers on my book The Birth of Territory from a workshop in Sydney. My thanks to Charlotte Epstein for the thoughtful engagement, and Adam David Morton at PPE for posting this. Last month … Continue reading →

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Heidegger, National Socialism and the editing of the Gesamtausgabe

Posted on April 7, 2015 by stuartelden

The Daily Nous reported a story about the editing of the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe a few days ago. The initial story was that some things – politically highly charged – had been deleted or changed in the editing of the texts. … Continue reading →

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The war against humanities at Britain’s universities

Posted on March 29, 2015 by stuartelden

The war against humanities at Britain’s universities – article in The Guardian.

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