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Book censorship in Turkey including Althusser, Spinoza and Camus

Posted on November 22, 2017 by stuartelden

Thanks to G.M. Goshgarian for bringing this to my attention – Books come under suspicion in post-coup Turkey. This obviously needs to be seen in the wider context of Turkish politics, but seems indicative of what is being reported about academics … Continue reading →

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Peter Linebaugh’s address to the House of Commons on the 800th anniversary of the Charter of the Forest

Posted on November 22, 2017 by stuartelden

Peter Linebaugh’s address to the House of Commons on the 800th anniversary of the Charter of the Forest on the Verso blog This text, delivered in the State Rooms at the House of Commons on 7 November 2017, was first … Continue reading →

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Jens Bartelson, War in International Thought – now out from Cambridge University Press

Posted on November 22, 2017 by stuartelden

Jens Bartelson, War in International Thought – now out from Cambridge University Press As scholars and citizens, we are predisposed to think of war as a profoundly destructive activity that ideally should be abolished altogether. Yet before the twentieth century, … Continue reading →

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Stuart Hall bibliography – compiled by Nick Beech for the Stuart Hall Foundation

Posted on November 21, 2017 by stuartelden

Stuart Hall bibliography – compiled by Nick Beech for the Stuart Hall Foundation The Stuart Hall Foundation has published a bibliography of Stuart Hall’s published works, including all known political, literary, critical, theoretical, creative prose and poetry, interviews, and ephemera, … Continue reading →

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CFP 2nd International and Multidisciplinary Conference on Baudrillard Studies – Oxford, 5-7 September 2018

Posted on November 21, 2017 by stuartelden

Applied Baudrillard: 2nd International and Multidisciplinary Conference on Baudrillard Studies – Oxford, 5-7 September 2018 Confirmed Keynote Speakers to date: Professor Mike Gane (Loughborough University) This is the Call For Papers for the 2nd International Conference on Baudrillard Studies to … Continue reading →

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Elizabeth Goodstein, Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary

Posted on November 21, 2017 by stuartelden

Elizabeth Goodstein, Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary – published earlier this year with Stanford University Press. Thanks to David Beer for the alert. An internationally famous philosopher and best-selling author during his lifetime, Georg Simmel has been marginalized in … Continue reading →

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Rivers of the Anthropocene: new (Free!) book now available

Posted on November 21, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
This is a great looking new title, available here for free by the University of California Press. Regular UC Press site here. Rivers of the Anthropocene Jason M. Kelly, Philip Scarpino , Helen Berry,…

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Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan (eds.), Life in the Age of Drone Warfare

Posted on November 20, 2017 by stuartelden

Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan (eds.), Life in the Age of Drone Warfare – now out with Duke University Press. This volume’s contributors offer a new critical language through which to explore and assess the historical, juridical, geopolitical, and cultural dimensions … Continue reading →

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150 Years of Marx’s Capital, with David Harvey, Nancy Holmstrom, Ajay Singh Chaudhary

Posted on November 20, 2017 by stuartelden

150 Years of Marx’s Capital, with David Harvey, Nancy Holmstrom, Ajay Singh Chaudhary (via Reading Marx’s Capital)

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The Early Foucault Update 14 – another month of slow, steady progress

Posted on November 20, 2017 by stuartelden

It’s been a month since the last update on this book, and it’s been another one of slow, steady progress. As I said in the last update, before term began I made a list of smaller tasks which I thought … Continue reading →

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