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Helena Sheehan and Sheamus Sweeney, The Wire and the World

Posted on March 11, 2018 by stuartelden

Helena Sheehan and Sheamus Sweeney, The Wire and the World Very interesting piece in Jacobin about the TV series, ten years after the final episode. Contains spoilers, of course, if you’ve not yet got through all the seasons…

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“Up in smoke: should an author’s dying wishes be obeyed?” – The Guardian

Posted on March 11, 2018 by stuartelden

Piece in The Guardian – Up in smoke: should an author’s dying wishes be obeyed? Includes some discussion of Foucault, including a link to their recent piece about History of Sexuality volume IV being published. But the main purpose is to discuss a … Continue reading →

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Books received – Dumézil, Canguilhem, Nail, Irrera & Vaccaro, Villacañas & Castro, Foucault, Kotowicz, Braunstein et al, Bleiker

Posted on March 9, 2018 by stuartelden

A pile of recently received books – Georges Dumézil, Entretiens avec Didier Eribon; Georges Canguilhem, Études d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences; Thomas Nail, Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion; Orazio Irrera & Salvo Vaccaro, La pensée politique de Foucault, … Continue reading →

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Ben Clift, The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis – now out with OUP

Posted on March 9, 2018 by stuartelden

A new book by friend and Warwick colleague Ben Clift – The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis – is now out with OUP. This book explores the IMF’s role within the … Continue reading →

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Foucault in Hamburg – article in German by Rainer Nicolaysen (open access)

Posted on March 9, 2018 by stuartelden

Not much is known about Foucault’s time in Hamburg in 1959-60, except that he was working on his translation of Kant’s Anthropology at this time. The preface to History of Madness was also written there. A new piece in German … Continue reading →

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Critical Planning issue with tributes to Jacqueline Leavitt and Ed Soja (open access)

Posted on March 9, 2018 by stuartelden

Critical Planning – new issue with tributes to Jacqueline Leavitt and Ed Soja, and a number of stand-alone pieces (open access). Thanks to Kenton Card for the link.

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The Critical Zone of Science and Politics: An Interview with Bruno Latour in LARB

Posted on March 2, 2018 by stuartelden

The Critical Zone of Science and Politics: An Interview with Bruno Latour in Los Angeles Review of Books

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Peter Sloterdijk in The New Yorker

Posted on March 2, 2018 by stuartelden

Peter Sloterdijk in The New Yorker (via Peter Gratton)

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‘Un tout autre horizon…’ an interview with Jacques Bidet

Posted on March 1, 2018 by stuartelden

Jacques Bidet – Foucault with Marx, translated by Steven Corcoran (Zed Books, 2016, La fabrique, Paris, 2015) In lieu of a review of Bidet’s book Foucault with Marx, we got in touch with him to discuss the way the text…

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Shakespearean Territories – forthcoming in October 2018 with University of Chicago Press

Posted on March 1, 2018 by stuartelden

Pleased to be able to share the cover of my forthcoming book Shakespearean Territories – due out in October 2018 with University of Chicago Press. As many people will recognise, the image is a detail of ‘the Ditchley Portrait‘ of Queen … Continue reading →

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