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Books received – Macherey, Mezzadra & Neilson, Zevnik, Gotman, Owens and Almqvist, Sartre

Posted on March 4, 2019 by stuartelden

Pierre Macherey, A Theory of Literary Production; Tim Smith-Lang, Michel Foucault’s What is an Author?; Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson, The Politics of Operation: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism; Andreja Zevnik, Lacan, Deleuze and World Politics; Kelina Gotman, Essays on Theatre and Change; Owens … Continue reading →

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Alexandre Kojève, Atheism, translated by Jeff Love – Columbia UP 2018

Posted on March 2, 2019 by stuartelden

Alexandre Kojève, Atheism, translated by Jeff Love, Columbia UP 2018 One of the twentieth century’s most brilliant and unconventional thinkers, Alexandre Kojève was a Russian émigré to France whose lectures on Hegel in the 1930s galvanized a generation of French intellectuals. … Continue reading →

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Corine Pelluchon, Nourishment: A Philosophy of the Political Body – Bloomsbury 2019

Posted on March 2, 2019 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Corine Pelluchon, Nourishment: A Philosophy of the Political Body, translated by Justin E. H. Smith,  Bloomsbury 2019 In this original and important book, Corine Pelluchon argues for nothing less than a new social contract that…

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Books received – Sartre, Althusser, Macey, Derrida, Edkins and Zehfuss

Posted on February 26, 2019 by stuartelden

Three books for the Foucault work; the new edition of David Macey’s The Lives of Michel Foucault, with an afterword by me, and the third edition of Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss, Global Politics. The last has a chapter from me … Continue reading →

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Society and Space book series – Adams, Circulation and Urbanization and Beer, The Data Gaze

Posted on February 26, 2019 by stuartelden

Finally got series editor copies of the two new books in the Society and Space book series – David Beer, The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception and Ross Exo Adams, Circulation and Urbanization. Both highly recommended, of course! More details on … Continue reading →

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Books received – Althusser, Koyré and Lemke

Posted on February 26, 2019 by stuartelden

Copies of some older Althusser and Koyré books, along with the more recently published Que Faire? and the English translation of Thomas Lemke, Foucault’s Analysis of Modern Governmentality: A Critique of Political Reason.

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Stuart Elden, Canguilhem – Polity Key Contemporary Thinkers series, now published

Posted on February 25, 2019 by stuartelden

My study of George Canguilhem for Polity’s Key Contemporary Thinkers series is now released in the UK in both hardback and paperback. It should be available in North America and worldwide over the next couple of months. [Update April 23 … Continue reading →

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Monstrous Ontologies. Politics, Ethics, Materiality – Roehampton, 1 July 2019

Posted on February 21, 2019 by stuartelden

One-day Symposium at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Roehampton, London the 1st of July 2019 We invite you to a one-day symposium on Monstrous Ontologies. Politics, Ethics, Materiality at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Roehampton, London, the 1st of July … Continue reading →

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Books received – Yusoff, Foucault, Koyré, Althusser, Kantorowicz

Posted on February 19, 2019 by stuartelden

Some books that arrived while I was away – Kathryn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None; a copy of Foucault’s Maladie mental et psychologie; Alexandre Koyré’s Newtonian Studies and From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe; the latest issue of Theory, Culture and Society; … Continue reading →

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“Shakespearean Landscapes”, Fourth Denis Cosgrove Lecture in the GeoHumanities, British Academy, 23 May 2019

Posted on February 18, 2019 by stuartelden

I am delighted to have been invited to give the fourth Denis Cosgrove Lecture in the GeoHumanities. The lecture is organised by the Royal Holloway Centre for the GeoHumanities, and will take place at the British Academy in London, on 23 May … Continue reading →

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