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Books received – Binswanger, Canguilhem, Lacan

Posted on January 23, 2017 by stuartelden

Some books for the new Foucault project – works by Georges Canguilhem and Jacques Lacan, picked up in Paris, and Jacqueline Verdeaux’s translation of Ludwig Binswanger’s Dream and Existence which Foucault advised and introduced.

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Save the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths University – sign the petition

Posted on January 22, 2017 by stuartelden

Save the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths University – sign the petition here. Update 20.25 – I’ve been made aware that the situation is much more complicated than the petition suggests, and that the restructuring may be for quite … Continue reading →

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William Davies – How statistics lost their power – and why we should fear what comes next

Posted on January 22, 2017 by stuartelden

William Davies, ‘How statistics lost their power – and why we should fear what comes next‘ in The Guardian.

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Roland Barthes’s ‘Mythologies’: A 60th Anniversary Invitation

Posted on January 22, 2017 by stuartelden

Roland Barthes’s ‘Mythologies’: A 60th Anniversary Invitation In 1957, the French literary theorist Roland Barthes (1915-1980) published Mythologies (Seuil, 1957), his most influential book, and perhaps one of the best-known books written by a 20th century French thinker. The book was a collection of … Continue reading →

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William E Connolly on Trump, Putin and the Big Lie Scenario

Posted on January 20, 2017 by stuartelden

I don’t imagine I will share many links about Trump, but here’s one that’s worth reading – William E Connolly on ‘Trump, Putin and the Big Lie Scenario‘.  

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Catastrophe: Critical Legal Conference 2017 Call for Streams

Posted on January 19, 2017 by stuartelden

Catastrophe: Critical Legal Conference 2017 Call for Streams – info at Critical Legal Thinking The Warwick Law School and Social Theory Centre invite you to the 2017 Critical Legal Conference at the University of Warwick on the 1st-3rd of September. Please … Continue reading →

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“Remember a condition of academic writing is that we expose ourselves to critique” – 15 steps to revising journal articles

Posted on January 19, 2017 by stuartelden

“Remember a condition of academic writing is that we expose ourselves to critique” – 15 steps to revising journal articles – useful advice from the LSE blog. (There is a page on this site which collects my own previous posts … Continue reading →

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Foucault and the Modern International – new collection (and my essay preprint)

Posted on January 19, 2017 by stuartelden

Foucault and the Modern International: Silences and Legacies for the Study of World Politics is a new collection with Palgrave, edited by Philippe Bonditti with Didier Bigo and Frédéric Gros. This book addresses the possibilities of analyzing the modern international through the thought of Michel Foucault. … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Dire vrai sur soi-même – 1982 Toronto lectures forthcoming from Vrin

Posted on January 18, 2017 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Dire vrai sur soi-même: Conférences prononcées à l’Université Victoria de Toronto is forthcoming from Vrin in February 2017. This is a volume in a series which has, until this point, largely comprised updated and critical editions of texts previously available … Continue reading →

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Good to Know You! Tribute to John Berger

Posted on January 16, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on andy merrifield:
A tribute to John Berger, who passed away aged 90 on 2 January 2017. Posted originally on Verso Books blog, 3 January 2017. John died yesterday. I’ll remember his voice, his laugh, his charm and…

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