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Some Moments from the Foucault Archives – two audio recordings of talks at Warwick and TCS

Posted on March 23, 2020 by stuartelden

Earlier this year I gave two talks on my work for The Early Foucault, discussing how I am using archives to trace this story. I recorded both talks, but was not planning on sharing them until I’d given some others … Continue reading →

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Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh Krupar, Deadly Biocultures: The Ethics of Life-Making -UMP, December 2019

Posted on March 23, 2020 by stuartelden

Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh Krupar, Deadly Biocultures: The Ethics of Life-Making -University of Minnesota Press, 2020 I’ve noted this book before, in a post of ‘books received’, but seems especially relevant to the present moment. In their seemingly relentless pursuit … Continue reading →

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Free e-books from Verso, Haymarket, Cambridge UP; open access journals and e-books from JSTOR

Posted on March 20, 2020 by stuartelden

I’ve shared a couple of these on Twitter, but putting them in the same place. Will add others if I see them, or please add as comments. Free Quarantine Ebooks from Verso – Reading in a time of coronavirus: download your free … Continue reading →

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Cambridge University Press textbooks open access

Posted on March 19, 2020 by stuartelden

Cambridge University Press is making higher education textbooks in HTML format free to access online during the coronavirus outbreak. https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/textbooks# Thanks to dmf for posting this as a comment – reposting here to give it more exposure. Cambridge University Press … Continue reading →

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Progressive Geographies over the coming weeks and months – what is, and isn’t appropriate at this time?

Posted on March 19, 2020 by stuartelden

I’m not entirely sure how much or what kind of blogging to do over the coming weeks. This blog has been quieter over the past few weeks anyway, and with the current situation most of what I post seems increasingly … Continue reading →

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Louise Amoore, Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others – Duke UP, May 2020 (and link to Introduction)

Posted on March 16, 2020 by stuartelden

Louise Amoore, Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others – Duke University Press, May 2020. Great to see this book is imminent – the Introduction can be read here. In Cloud Ethics Louise Amoore examines how machine … Continue reading →

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NYU and Bologna talks cancelled

Posted on March 16, 2020 by stuartelden

Unfortunately two forthcoming talks, at New York University on 26 March 2020 and at the University of Bologna on 12 May 2020, have been cancelled. The organisers and I hope they can been rearranged for a later date. I cut my time … Continue reading →

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Books received – Cacciari, Webster, Shakespeare, Jardine, Butler, Lefebvre, Iyengar, Beaufret

Posted on February 29, 2020 by stuartelden

Mainly in recompense for review work for Bloomsbury, including the final volume of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series, and Alice Jardine’s biography of Julia Kristeva, along with Judith Butler’s new book The Force of Nonviolence, Henri Lefebvre, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche or the Realm … Continue reading →

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Books received – Dumézil, Sabot, Ehlers and Krupar, Hyppolite, Loraux et al, Beaufret, Landscape as Territory

Posted on February 29, 2020 by stuartelden

A mixed pile of things, mainly bought second-hand; along with two books I was sent – Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh Krupar, Deadly Biocultures: The Ethics of Life-Making, and Landscape as Territory, edited by Clara Olóriz Sanjuán. The last has a transcription of a … Continue reading →

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Mapping water conflicts

Posted on February 28, 2020 by stuartelden

http://www.worldwater.org/conflict/map/ – thanks to dmf for the link to this and the podcast in a previous post.

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