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One or Two King Lears? – review at Berfrois (open access)

Posted on January 4, 2017 by stuartelden

Update September 2025: the Berfrois site is now closed and the archive has been removed. My piece can now be found here. I have a long review of Brian Vickers’s The One King Lear, at the Berfrois website. It was one of … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault, Binswanger, Lacan

Posted on January 4, 2017 by stuartelden

Some recently bought books for the project on the early Foucault – a seminar by Lacan which he likely attended, some works by Binswanger and the original source of one of his first publications.

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Books received – author copies of Foucault: The Birth of Power

Posted on January 4, 2017 by stuartelden

The remaining author copies of Foucault: The Birth of Power – which means that the book is now shipping if you order direct. Amazon etc. might take a bit longer to have stocks…  

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Gastón Gordillo on Terrain

Posted on January 4, 2017 by stuartelden

One of the key people I am in dialogue with for my work on terrain is UBC Anthropology Professor, Gaston Gordillo. He provides a preview of a forthcoming essay on terrain at his Space and Politics blog. It will appear … Continue reading →

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6 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in December, 2016

Posted on January 4, 2017 by stuartelden

As ever, a very useful roundup here.

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Peter Adamson’s 20 rules or “suggestions of best practice” for doing the history of philosophy

Posted on January 4, 2017 by stuartelden

Peter Adamson, professor of philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and creator of the podcast History Of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, has put together a list of 20 rules or “suggestions of best practice” for doing the history of philosophy. The rules were … Continue reading →

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Achille Mbembe, The age of humanism is ending

Posted on January 3, 2017 by stuartelden

Achille Mbembe, ‘The age of humanism is ending‘, Mail and Guardian, 22 December 2016 There is no sign that 2017 will be much different from 2016. Under Israeli occupation for decades, Gaza will still be the biggest open prison on Earth. … Continue reading →

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Warwick historians on the growing racism in the UK

Posted on January 3, 2017 by stuartelden

Warwick historians have written a powerful piece about the growing racism in the UK at Open Democracy. We historians at the University of Warwick are very concerned about the racism that is becoming increasingly commonplace over Britain, especially in the aftermath of the … Continue reading →

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Eyal Weizman, Forensic Architecture – forthcoming from Zone

Posted on January 3, 2017 by stuartelden

Eyal Weizman, Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability – forthcoming from Zone. This builds on the work of his Forensic Architecture research agency at Goldsmiths. In recent years, a little-known research group named Forensic Architecture began using novel research … Continue reading →

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New Perspectives 24.02 out now – including open access tribute to Alex Danchev

Posted on January 3, 2017 by stuartelden

New Perspectives Vol 24 No 2 is now out. It includes a wonderful tribute to Alex Danchev by Roland Bleiker. – our subscribers have access to the full contents of the journal, which are listed and linked-to here. However, we … Continue reading →

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