Category Archives: Publishing

“Interview with Stuart Elden” at Groundwork

Another interview with me, conducted by Jordan Skinner, has been published at the Groundwork site – a blog run by past and present students of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University. It ranges widely across … Continue reading →

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‘Territory and Transgression: A Conversation with Stuart Elden’ @thepolisblog

A long interview with me, conducted by Peter Sigrist, has just been published at Polis. It covers most of my current and past interests, including territory, Lefebvre, Foucault, Sloterdijk, Heidegger, politics,  my time in Israel/Palestine, publishing, literature and film… Many … Continue reading →

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Place, Space and Politics: New Book Series from Routledge

Clive Barnett has news of a book series he is editing for Routledge – Research in Place, Space and Politics. This looks very interesting, and joins some other good series – the Antipode and RGS-IBG ones with Wiley-Blackwell, and the Geographies … Continue reading →

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Beyond Discipline and Punish: Is it time for a new translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir?

Alan Sheridan’s translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir as Discipline and Punish is almost forty years old, and it is sometimes said that great works of literature need to be retranslated each generation. (For some examples of this for works … Continue reading →

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Works of twentieth-century theory that exist in new or revised translations – further examples wanted

As I said I would last week, I’m preparing a detailed post on why we need a new translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir, and was thinking of other major works of twentieth-century theory that exist in more than one translation. There … Continue reading →

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Re-reading the first two chapters of Discipline and Punish and Surveiller et punir

I’ve spent the day in the State Library of Victoria, re-reading the first two chapters of Discipline and Punish and comparing them carefully to Surveiller et punir. This took me much longer than anticipated. I knew this text well – I’ve taught it quite a … Continue reading →

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A taxonomy of journal editors

A taxonomy of journal editors – written for science, but enough relevance to social science and the humanities. Thanks to Ben Rosamond for the link.

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Winter 2014 Chicago Shorts – University of Chicago Press books

Full details here – University of Chicago Press’s interesting project of making short books available electronically and, crucially, at very cheap prices (compare Palgrave Pivot…) Among the Winter Shorts, you’ll find: Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom: A Brief Introduction by Bruce Caldwell … Continue reading →

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On saying ‘no’, Edmund Wilson style

Edmund Wilson, writer and critic, provides a list of things that he would not do… (list made more legible at Dangerous Minds).

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Books I’m looking forward to in 2014

Some of the books I’m looking forward to this year include Henri Lefebvre, Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment (edited by Łukasz Stanek and previously unpublished in any language); Neil Brenner’s epic edited collection Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization; Mick Dillon’s Biopolitics of Security in the 21st … Continue reading →

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