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Andrew J. Mitchell, The Fourfold: Reading the Late Heidegger reviewed at NDPR

Posted on June 9, 2017 by stuartelden

Andrew J. Mitchell, The Fourfold: Reading the Late Heidegger is reviewed at NDPR by Gary Aylesworth. Heidegger’s later thought is a thinking of things, so argues Andrew J. Mitchell in The Fourfold. Heidegger understands these things in terms of what he … Continue reading →

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Books received – Gilot, Boehringer and Lorenzini, Debrix, Chimisso, Merleau-Ponty, Sloterdijk, Stratford, Johnston and Sidaway

Posted on June 8, 2017 by stuartelden

A pile of recently received books, many in recompense for review work. The Chimisso and Merleau-Ponty are for the Foucault and Canguilhem projects; but also second-hand copies of Françoise Gilot’s biography Life with Picasso, and Boehringer and Lorenzini’s collection on … Continue reading →

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Symposium on Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi’s book Foucault in Iran

Posted on June 7, 2017 by stuartelden

Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for this news: Jadaliyya recently published a six-part symposium on Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi’s book Foucault in Iran. Here is part 1 http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/26386/foucault-and-iran Here is part 2 http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/26387/rescuing-the-revolution-from-its-outcome Here is part 3 http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/26394/foucault_against-the-ideology-of-enlightenment Here is part 4 http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/26413/foucault%E2%80%99s-folly_iran-political-spirituality-and-c … Continue reading →

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Cambridge Summer School, “The Practice of Social Theory”, 4-6 September 2017

Posted on June 7, 2017 by stuartelden

Conveners: Jana Bacevic (University of Cambridge) and Mark Carrigan (The Sociological Review) Passionate about social theory? Want to learn more about how it is created? Interested in seeing theory being made, rather than just read or applied? Apply to the … Continue reading →

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The Future of the University Press: A Forum (part open access)

Posted on June 6, 2017 by stuartelden

The Future of the University Press: A Forum in the Chronicle of Higher Education (a couple of pieces are open access; most only accessible to subscribers). We asked publishers, press directors, editors, scholars, and other insiders for their views on … Continue reading →

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8 Critical Theory books from May 2017 – roundup

Posted on June 5, 2017 by stuartelden

8 Critical Theory books from May 2017 – another useful roundup from critical-theory.com Agamben, Miéville, Hite, Derrida, Bernes, Kottman, Anderson, Werk

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To-do lists that actually work

Posted on June 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Some interesting discussion of ‘to do’ lists Research Degree Insiders I’m not actually much of a fan of to do lists. They aren’t actually much use, in my view, at getting things done. Like planning your writing with bullet points, … Continue reading →

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E-IR interview with Walter Mignolo

Posted on June 2, 2017 by stuartelden

E-IR interview with Walter Mignolo – an excerpt from Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics – An E-IR Edited Collection Available now on Amazon (UK, USA, Ca, Ger, Fra), in all good book stores, and via a free PDF download.

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Susan Sontag on writing

Posted on June 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Susan Sontag on writing – archive interview from the Paris Review. Thanks to James Tyler for the link.

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Translation of ‘Territory without Borders’ in Iran’s Shargh Daily

Posted on May 31, 2017 by stuartelden

My 2011 short essay ‘Territory without Borders‘, which originally appeared in the Harvard International Review, has been translated for the May 28, 2017 issue of the Iranian paper Shargh Daily. My thanks to Sahand Sattari for making the translation. In 2015 he … Continue reading →

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