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David Beer on the process of writing The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception

Posted on May 26, 2018 by stuartelden

The next book in the Society and Space book series will be David Beer, The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception. Dave has an interesting post on the process of writing the book at Medium. A significant new way of … Continue reading →

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Thomas Lemke, A Critique of Political Reason: Foucault’s Analysis of Modern Governmentality – forthcoming with Verso in January 2019

Posted on May 26, 2018 by stuartelden

Also with Verso, the long overdue translation of Thomas Lemke, A Critique of Political Reason: Foucault’s Analysis of Modern Governmentality – forthcoming in January 2019. Lemke offers the most comprehensive and systematic account of Michel Foucault’s work on power and … Continue reading →

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Deborah Cook, Adorno, Foucault and the Critique of the West – forthcoming with Verso, October 2018

Posted on May 26, 2018 by stuartelden

Adorno, Foucault and the Critique of the West by Deborah Cook, forthcoming with Verso, October 2018 Adorno, Foucault, and the Critique of the West argues that critical theory continues to offer valuable resources for critique and contestation during this turbulent … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on borders

Posted on May 24, 2018 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Anatomies of Power:
For reasons both of a peripatetic existence, of the places in which that has taken place, and a growing concern in the relationship between power and the capacity to make definitions, topographic and otherwise,…

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American Book Review theme on Critical Lives – including piece by me on Foucault

Posted on May 23, 2018 by stuartelden

A theme section of American Book Review has just been published. Edited by Robert T. Tally Jr., it includes reviews of a number of recent biographies of social theorists and philosophers – Freud, the Frankfurt School, Habermas, Schmitt, Deleuze, Barthes, Hall and … Continue reading →

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Keith Ansell-Pearson, Bergson reviewed at NDPR

Posted on May 23, 2018 by stuartelden

Keith Ansell-Pearson, Bergson: Thinking Beyond the Human Condition (Bloomsbury, 2018) is reviewed at NDPR by Donald A. Landes. Here’s the publisher description: A thought-provoking contribution to the renaissance of interest in Bergson, this study brings him to a new generation … Continue reading →

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Foucault and Shakespeare – symposium at Garrick’s Temple, 23 June 2018

Posted on May 23, 2018 by stuartelden

Foucault and Shakespeare – symposium at Garrick’s Temple, 23 June 2018 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 the plays. … Continue reading →

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Recent reviews of my Foucault books – Mike Gane, JM Moore and Nancy Luxon

Posted on May 22, 2018 by stuartelden

Foucault: The Birth of Power is reviewed by Nancy Luxon in Perspectives in Politics, and by JM Moore in Justice, Power and Resistance. That book, and Foucault’s Last Decade are also discussed in a review essay by Mike Gane in … Continue reading →

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Barry Hindess (1939-2018)

Posted on May 22, 2018 by stuartelden

I have been hearing reports that Barry Hindess sadly died earlier this week. There is a brief notice in The Canberra Times. I only met him once, when I was at ANU for a term and we had lunch together. But … Continue reading →

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Audio recordings of talks on Shakespearean Territories at Queen Mary and King’s College London

Posted on May 21, 2018 by stuartelden

Both these talks summarise the Shakespearean Territories book, forthcoming from University of Chicago Press in October 2018. The Queen Mary talk was part of a workshop on ‘Territory’s Value’, with Charles Maier and organised by Simon Reid-Henry. It’s about 20 … Continue reading →

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