Category Archives: Quentin Meillassoux

Ennis on Meillassoux and more

Posted on October 11, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting interview with Paul Ennis at Fractured Politics. Lots about Meillassoux and speculative realism, but interesting discussions of being a (post-)grad student, and publishing and networking early in career. And there is a nice comment about me at the beginning.

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Harman on Meillassoux on Mallarmé

Posted on September 25, 2011 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has written some thoughts on Meillassoux’s new book on Mallarmé here and here. Looking forward to getting a copy.

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Foucault and Meillassoux

Posted on September 21, 2011 by stuartelden

After a hugely frustrating day on teaching bureaucracy (assessment proformas, reading lists, online teaching sites, etc.) amazon.fr sends me an email saying they’ve just sent my copies of Quentin Meillassoux, Le nombre et la sirène (on Mallarmé, released today) and Foucault … Continue reading →

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Harman’s Meillassoux book

Posted on August 19, 2011 by stuartelden

Graham Harman’s new book Quentin Meillassoux: Philosophy in the Making has been out for less than a month, and I’ve now had a chance to read it. The structure of the book is reasonably straight-forward – chapters on After Finitude, the … Continue reading →

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Harman on Meillassoux

Posted on June 19, 2011 by stuartelden

A very interesting piece by Graham Harman on Quentin Meillassoux is available open-access here.

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Harman’s Meillassoux book

Posted on May 11, 2011 by stuartelden

Flyer here, with a discount price, and Žižek’s blurb.

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Towards the arche-fossil

Posted on April 27, 2011 by stuartelden

Alongside the stuff on fossils I’ve been reading, I’ve also been accumulating a few notes and references to things that seem closer to what Meillassoux means by an arche-fossil. The work of Lord Kelvin on the cooling of the earth, … Continue reading →

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Edinburgh University Press philosophy

Posted on April 5, 2011 by stuartelden

Edinburgh University Press have a new philosophy catalogue out. Lots of really interesting books in there – Graham Harman’s book on Meillassoux launches the new Speculative Realism series; plus Gerald Moore’s book on The Politics of the Gift (endorsed by … Continue reading →

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Translating Schmitt and Meillassoux

Posted on March 24, 2011 by stuartelden

An interesting complaint about the packaging of Carl Schmitt translations here. The point is that these are slender volumes and could have been combined into something a little more worthwhile, which would also do away with the need for separate translator’s … Continue reading →

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Ray Brassier interview

Posted on March 6, 2011 by stuartelden

Interview with Ray Brassier in Kronos (via Mark Kelly). Brassier is the translator of Meillassoux’s After Finitude and author of Nihil Unbound. He was one of the four original speakers (with Meillasoux, Graham Harman and Iain Hamilton-Grant) at the ‘Speculative Realism’ … Continue reading →

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