Category Archives: Publishing

New issue of ACME now out, including Neil Smith’s last conference presentation

Posted on October 7, 2015 by stuartelden

A new issue of ACME is now out, including Neil Smith’s last conference presentation (all open access). Neil Smith’s piece is entitled ‘The Future is Radically Open’, and was presented in Paris in September 2012, shortly before he died. It’s … Continue reading →

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Foucault: The Birth of Power Update 4 – collaborative work and a complete draft of Chapter One on the Lectures on the Will to Know and related materials

Posted on October 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Since the last update, I’ve been working on various aspects of this project. The first was a return to some of Foucault’s collaborative projects around CERFI. Quite late in the drafting of Foucault’s Last Decade I removed most of the … Continue reading →

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Eleven thoughts on reading and citing

Posted on October 2, 2015 by stuartelden

At the beginning of reading on a topic, the most useful thing in a paper or book is often its bibliography. As you read more you’ll realise the key texts get cited again and again. You can tell you are … Continue reading →

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Book received – contributor copy of How We Write

Posted on October 1, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ve just received my contributor copy of How We Write – the open access collection edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari, which includes thirteen short pieces on academic writing. It looks great in its physical form. The book is available to buy in paperback, or free … Continue reading →

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How We Write – the open access collection reviewed and highlighted

Posted on September 15, 2015 by stuartelden

How We Write – the open access collection edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari, which includes thirteen short pieces on academic writing – has been getting  a bit of attention already. It was chosen as a highlighted title on open access site Unglue.it and … Continue reading →

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Explorations of Style – a really useful writing resource, now with ‘how to use this blog’ page

Posted on September 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Explorations of Style is a really useful writing resource, and now has a comprehensive ‘how to use this blog‘ page which serves as a kind of table of contents or index.

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A copy of Michel Foucault’s Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique

Posted on August 29, 2015 by stuartelden

It’s fairly well known that there are various editions of Foucault’s first major work – Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique. There is the original 1961 edition: Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique, published by Plon and based … Continue reading →

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‘The worst piece of peer review I’ve ever received’ – stories in the Times Higher Education

Posted on August 9, 2015 by stuartelden

‘The worst piece of peer review I’ve ever received‘ – stories in the Times Higher Education.

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Janae Sholtz, The Invention of a People: Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political – reviewed at NDPR

Posted on August 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Janae Sholtz, The Invention of a People: Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political – reviewed at NDPR by Antonio Calcagno. The topic sounds interesting, and the review notes that Sholtz discusses Kostas Axelos’s work as a way of developing Heidegger’s … Continue reading →

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Palgrave’s Publishing resources for early career academics

Posted on July 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Publishing resources for early career academics from Palgrave – a pdf to download from academia.edu. Thanks to Robert Tally for the link. Focuses on books, with advice on revision from PhD thesis, proposals, glossary of terms, etc. – much of … Continue reading →

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