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Books received – Bataille & Weil, Grmek, Heidegger, Cook, Theory, Culture & Society

Posted on January 11, 2019 by stuartelden

Books received – George Bataille and Eric Weil correspondence, Mirko D. Grmek, Pathological Realities: Essays on Disease, Experiments, and History; the new translation of Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning the Thing, Deborah Cook, Adorno, Foucault and the Critique of the West, and … Continue reading →

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

Posted on January 3, 2019 by stuartelden

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 does justice to the biosphere, … Continue reading →

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Jo van Every – About the Short Guides Series on writing and publishing

Posted on January 2, 2019 by stuartelden

Jo van Every, About the Short Guides Series – an introduction to her series of books about academic writing and publishing. The third volume is due out soon. As I was finalising the third volume in this series of books, my … Continue reading →

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Special Issue: Processes of Subjectivation: Biopolitics and the Politics of Literature (2018)

Posted on January 2, 2019 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Special Issue: Processes of Subjectivation: Biopolitics and the Politics of Literature, Comparative Literature and Culture 20.4 (2018)_ Issue 20.4 (December 2018) Ed. Azucena G. Blanco ? The Eventualization of Political Thinking: From the Arab Revolutions…

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New issue of Critical Inquiry: Davidson and His Interlocutors (2019)

Posted on January 2, 2019 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
New issue of Critical Inquiry: Davidson and His Interlocutors Volume 45, Number 2 | Winter 2019 Open access Articles in this issue include amongst others David Halperin, Queer Love Daniele Lorenzini, The Emergence of Desire:…

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2018 in review – publications, talks, other academic stuff, and looking ahead to 2019

Posted on January 1, 2019 by stuartelden

My book Shakespearean Territories was published by University of Chicago Press right at the end of the year, although it doesn’t seem to be available everywhere just yet. A journal article previewing some of the book’s arguments appeared as “Why Should … Continue reading →

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Novels and biographies read in 2018

Posted on December 31, 2018 by stuartelden

These are the books I read as a break from standard academic reading, though the line gets blurred with some of the biographies. I read more of those this year than previous years, including the three volumes of Isaac Deutscher’s … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2018

Posted on December 31, 2018 by stuartelden

My favourite academic books of 2018. As with previous years – 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 – these are shaped by my interests, books that are sent to me, ones from publishers I review for, etc. etc. I’ve not read all the … Continue reading →

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Ross Exo Adams, Circulation and Urbanization – Sage 2018 (Society and Space series)

Posted on December 31, 2018 by stuartelden

Ross Exo Adams, Circulation and Urbanization – Sage 2018 (Society and Space series) Circulation and Urbanization is a foundational investigation into the history of the urban. Moving beyond both canonical and empirical portrayals, the book approaches the urban through a genealogy … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault Update 22: Acéphale, Critique, Foucault’s thesis, Uppsala, Sussex

Posted on December 14, 2018 by stuartelden

In the second half of term I felt I made little progress, but have done a little reading and research in and around teaching, marking, meetings and other tasks. I did write the Introduction to a translation, which should be … Continue reading →

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