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Graduated Open Access @punctum Books

Posted on December 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Graduated Open Access at Punctum Books – press release. First two paragraphs below. Today punctum launches a new platform for distributing our titles, which we are calling (for lack of a more elegant phrasing) Graduated Open Access. By way of … Continue reading →

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Biopower: Foucault and Beyond – edited by Cisney and Morar

Posted on December 9, 2015 by stuartelden

A new collection now out – Biopower: Foucault and Beyond – edited by Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar. Contains essays by Revel, Negri, Patton, Mills, Hacking, Mendieta, Stoler, Rabinow, Rose, Esposito… Michel Foucault’s notion of “biopower” has been a … Continue reading →

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Books received – Shakespeare, Sperlinger, Zurn and Dilts

Posted on December 9, 2015 by stuartelden

A couple of volumes of the Penguin Shakespeare series, Tom Sperlinger’s Romeo and Juliet in Palestine: Teaching Under Occupation, and Perry Zurn and Andrew Dilts’s collection Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition. I provided an endorsement of Active … Continue reading →

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Commentary by Sue Ruddick: Reading and writing in a materialist way

Posted on December 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Sue Ruddick commentary at the Society and Space open site on reading theory and using secondary literature.

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Review essay on Foucault’s The Punitive Society published at Historical Materialism

Posted on December 8, 2015 by stuartelden

My review essay on Foucault’s La société punitive (now translated as The Punitive Society) has been published at Historical Materialism. The article requires subscription, but a preprint is here.

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Hegel and The Birth of Theory discussed at PMLA

Posted on December 8, 2015 by stuartelden

From the University of Chicago Press blog: The recently published May 2015 issue of PMLA included a special feature in its “Theories and Methodologies” section devoted to a number of wide-ranging commentaries by contemporary scholars on Andrew Cole’s The Birth of Theory. Cole’s book—readily endorsed … Continue reading →

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Giorgio Agamben, The Use of Bodies – available to pre-order

Posted on December 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Giorgio Agamben, The Use of Bodies – available to pre-order. Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer was one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. It was also the beginning of a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope, … Continue reading →

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Financial markets, algo-rhythms, and cities – Borch, Hansen and Lange

Posted on December 8, 2015 by stuartelden

A new companion piece to an article in Society and Space.

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Symposium Announcement: What Is the Urban? Registers of a World Interior

Posted on December 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on machines of urbanization:
Joseph Paxton, Great Victorian Way, 1855 Iowa State University, Center for Excellence in Arts and Humanities (CEAH) Symposium, April 4-5, 2016. Full details and free registration at http://www.whatistheurban.org) What Is the Urban? Registers of a World Interior…

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on December 6, 2015 by stuartelden

Digital Map of the Roman Empire Before and after peer-review in a diagram “Mourning becomes the law”—Judith Butler from Paris at the Verso website (no longer available; archived version here) Michel Foucault on refugees – a previously untranslated interview from 1979 Antipode Intervention on Lefebvre … Continue reading →

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