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Alastair Davidson, Antonio Gramsci: Towards an Intellectual Biography – Haymarket books

Posted on June 7, 2018 by stuartelden

Alastair Davidson, Antonio Gramsci: Towards an Intellectual Biography – published in February 2018 by Haymarket books. This engrossing political biography aims to lift Gramsci’s legacy out of the sterile debates that have endured since his death. Few revolutionaries have a … Continue reading →

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Heidegger, ‘The Question Concerning the Thing’ lecture course – new translation forthcoming in September 2018

Posted on June 7, 2018 by stuartelden

Martin Heidegger’s Die Frage nach dem Ding was one of the courses he published in his lifetime (in 1962), and then was later included in the Gesamtausgabe. There was an English translation as What is a Thing? in 1967, but … Continue reading →

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‘Little Stars and Galloping Steeds: Sex in Shakespeare’ – Rose Theatre Kingston, June 22, 2018

Posted on June 7, 2018 by stuartelden

The day before the Foucault and Shakespeare event, there is a day-long workshop at Kingston’s Rose Theatre. Little Stars and Galloping Steeds: Sex in Shakespeare – Friday June 22, 2018, Rose Theatre Kingston. It’s free, but registration is required. 9.30am: … Continue reading →

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Terror und Territorium – podcast with Stuart Elden, Gudrun Harrer and Saskia Stachowitsch (in German)

Posted on June 6, 2018 by stuartelden

Terror und Territorium – podcast with me (dubbed in German), Gudrun Harrer and Saskia Stachowitsch. The rest of the series is here. https://soundcloud.com/user-962332806/episode-6-terror-und-territorium Die Verbindung von Staat und Territorium galt lange als fixiert, die Welt geteilt durch Grenzen, die klar … Continue reading →

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Klaus Dodds, Ice: Nature and Culture – out soon in Reaktion’s Earth series

Posted on May 30, 2018 by stuartelden

The next book in Reaktion’s excellent Earth series will be Klaus Dodds, Ice: Nature and Culture – due in June 2018. Ice has played a prominent role in the history of the earth and its living communities for millennia. We … Continue reading →

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Foucault and Shakespeare (2018)

Posted on May 30, 2018 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
KINGSTON SHAKESPEARE SEMINAR AT GARRICK’S TEMPLE SATURDAY JUNE 23 2018 FOUCAULT AND SHAKESPEARE 10.00: Chair: Richard Wilson (Kingston University) Jonathan Dollimore ‘Foucault, Shakespeare and Cultural Materialism’ 11.00: Coffee (Temple Pavilion) 11.30: Chair: Kélina Gotman (King’s…

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Transcribe Bentham – papers from UCL and British Library completely digitised

Posted on May 29, 2018 by stuartelden

Jeremy Bentham’s papers from the collections of UCL and the British Library are now all digitised. Full update here, but here’s the first part. The digitisation of Bentham’s writings has always been a central element of the Transcribe Bentham initiative, … Continue reading →

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Italian Limes project – Andrea Bagnato, Marco Ferrari and Elisa Pasqual, A Moving Border – Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change, forthcoming with Columbia University Press

Posted on May 29, 2018 by stuartelden

I’ve talked about the amazing work of the Italian Limes project before, and I’m pleased to say that their book will be published in December 2018. Andrea Bagnato, Marco Ferrari and Elisa Pasqual, A Moving Border – Alpine Cartographies of Climate … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Confessions of the Flesh – audio recording of talk at Goldsmiths, 9 May 2018

Posted on May 29, 2018 by stuartelden

I gave a talk about Foucault’s Les aveux de la chair on May 9th at the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought, Goldsmiths University. Full details here. The talk was based on my review essay on the book, published on the … Continue reading →

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Derrida’s Margins: Inside the personal library of Jacques Derrida

Posted on May 26, 2018 by stuartelden

Derrida’s Margins: Inside the personal library of Jacques Derrida For Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), reading was an active process: he read texts by thinkers like Rousseau, Heidegger, Lévi-Strauss, Hegel, and Husserl with a writing utensil in hand.  As Derrida affirmed in a late interview, the … Continue reading →

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