Category Archives: Publishing

Politics of Place issue 2 available

Posted on March 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Politics of Place issue 2 available – visually looks great, including an interview with Bradley Garrett.

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Lisa Smirl – Spaces of Aid: How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism

Posted on March 11, 2015 by stuartelden

Lisa Smirl – Spaces of Aid: How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism. Aid workers commonly bemoan that the spaces and experiences of working in ‘the field’ often sit uneasily with the goals they’ve signed up to: from visiting project … Continue reading →

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Umberto Eco – How to Write a Thesis (MIT Press)

Posted on March 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Umberto Eco’s 1977 book How to Write a Thesis now out in translation from MIT Press. By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy’s most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and … Continue reading →

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The Uncollected Foucault – some updates to the list with links

Posted on March 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault – uncollected notes, lectures and interviews – further updates to the list. This includes pieces which didn’t make it into Dits et écrits, but which are available in some form. I’ve provided links where I can, including some to files which are … Continue reading →

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The Mechanics of Research Production – some interesting writing advice at Daily Nous

Posted on February 28, 2015 by stuartelden

The Mechanics of Research Production – some interesting writing discussion and advice at Daily Nous. This isn’t just relevant to philosophy. There are many little everyday steps leading up to the production of a philosophical manuscript. Charles Rathkopf (CUNY) writes in … Continue reading →

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New Perspectives Interdisciplinary Journal of Central and Eastern European Politics & IR

Posted on February 28, 2015 by stuartelden

New Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Journal of Central and Eastern European Politics & International Relations – relaunch of a journal. Flyer and call for papers.

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Simeon Wade (ed.) Chez Foucault – the 1978 fanzine with a 1976 interview with Foucault

Posted on February 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Back in December I posted about an elusive publication which contained a 1976 discussion with Foucault which appeared in Chez Foucault, Los Angeles: Circabook, 1978, pp. 4-22. While this text is translated into French for Dits et écrits (online here), I wanted to find … Continue reading →

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Kluge and Negt, History and Obstinacy – English translation published

Posted on February 22, 2015 by stuartelden

I missed this at the end of last year, but the long-awaited English translation of Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt, History and Obstinacy has been published by Zone books. If Marx’s opus Capital provided the foundational account of the forces of production in all of … Continue reading →

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Foucault – Qu’est-ce que la critique? Suivie de La culture de soi – new book forthcoming

Posted on February 20, 2015 by stuartelden

Vrin are publishing a new collection of Foucault’s work – Qu’est-ce que la critique? Suivie de La culture de soi. This is two lectures – one from May 1978 and one from April 1983. The first was on Kant, and was published posthumously (and … Continue reading →

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Why I’m not writing or speaking about Heidegger’s Black Notebooks (except here)

Posted on February 19, 2015 by stuartelden

As many readers of this blog will know, I’ve been posting various bits of news about Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ over the past year or so. In that time I’ve been asked to speak on Heidegger at events in the UK … Continue reading →

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