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Keith Jacobs, Neoliberal Housing Policy: An International Perspective – Routledge, May 2019

Posted on April 3, 2019 by stuartelden

Keith Jacobs, Neoliberal Housing Policy: An International Perspective – Routledge, May 2019 Neoliberal Housing Policy considers some of the most significant housing issues facing the West today, including the increasing commodification of housing; the political economy surrounding homeownership; the role … Continue reading →

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Walter Benjamin and Shakespeare symposium, Saturday April 6, 2019, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton

Posted on April 3, 2019 by stuartelden

Walter Benjamin and Shakespeare symposium Saturday April 6, 2019, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton David Garrick built his Shakespeare Temple beside the Thames at Hampton in 1755 as a place where ‘the thinkers of the world’ would meet to reflect on … Continue reading →

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Andrew W. Neil, Security as Politics: Beyond the State of Exception – Edinburgh University Press, 2019

Posted on April 1, 2019 by stuartelden

Andrew W. Neil, Security as Politics: Beyond the State of Exception – Edinburgh University Press, 2019 Uses the perspective of parliamentarians to reassess the relationship between security and politics Andrew W. Neal argues that while ‘security’ was once an anti-political … Continue reading →

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Rosi Braidotti, Posthuman Knowledge – Polity, June 2019

Posted on April 1, 2019 by stuartelden

Rosi Braidotti, Posthuman Knowledge – Polity, June 2019 The question of what defines the human, and of what is human about the humanities, have been shaken up by the radical critiques of humanism and the displacement of anthropomorphism that have … Continue reading →

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Books received – Heidegger, Jazeel and Legg, Duarte, Delay, Lentz, Baganato, Ferrari and Pasqual

Posted on March 29, 2019 by stuartelden

The latest volume of the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe, Vier Hefte I und II, Tariq Jazeel and Stephen Legg (eds.), Subaltern Geographies, Fábio Duarte, Space, Place and Territory, Steven Delay, Phenomenology in France, Christian C. Lentz, Contested Territory: Ðien Biên Phu and the Making of Northwest … Continue reading →

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David Farrell Krell, The Cudgel and the Caress: Reflections on Cruelty and Tenderness – SUNY Press, March 2019

Posted on March 29, 2019 by stuartelden

David Farrell Krell, The Cudgel and the Caress: Reflections on Cruelty and Tenderness – SUNY Press, 2019 I shared news of Krell’s recent The Sea: A Philosophical Encounter a couple of days ago. Thanks to Ron Sexton for commenting that he … Continue reading →

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Jenny Edkins, Change and the Politics of Certainty – Manchester University Press, May 2019

Posted on March 29, 2019 by stuartelden

Jenny Edkins, Change and the Politics of Certainty – Manchester University Press, 2019 Renowned politics scholar Jenny Edkins explores the imperative for change in a world filled with inequality, violence, persecution, and injustice–and the difficulties of bringing it about. How … Continue reading →

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John Protevi, Edges of the State – University of Minnesota Press, Forerunner, April 2019

Posted on March 29, 2019 by stuartelden

John Protevi, Edges of the State – University of Minnesota Press, Forerunner, 2019 This book takes a look at the formation, and edges, of states: their breakdowns and attempts to repair them, and their encounters with non-state peoples. It draws … Continue reading →

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Christian Abrahamsson, Topoi/Graphein: Mapping the Middle in Spatial Thought _ U Nebraska Press, 2018, with preface by Gunnar Olsson

Posted on March 28, 2019 by stuartelden

Christian Abrahamsson, Topoi/Graphein: Mapping the Middle in Spatial Thought – University of Nebraska Press, 2018, with preface by Gunnar Olsson In Topoi/Graphein Christian Abrahamsson maps the paradoxical limit of the in-between to reveal that to be human is to know how to live … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Discourse and Truth and Parresia, University of Chicago Press, 2019

Posted on March 28, 2019 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Discourse and Truth and Parresia, University of Chicago Press, 2019 edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini, English edition established by Nancy Luxon This volume collects a series of lectures given by the renowned French thinker Michel Foucault … Continue reading →

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