Manuel DeLanda’s Essays on Assemblage Theory – forthcoming in the EUP Speculative Realism series

Posted on June 16, 2015 by stuartelden

Manuel DeLanda’s Essays on Assemblage Theory – forthcoming in the EUP Speculative Realism series. Graham Harman has more details, and news of a forthcoming dialogue with DeLanda.

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Journal of Architecture – various reviews of books by and on Henri Lefebvre

Posted on June 16, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned a couple of these before when online, but the latest issue of The Journal of Architecture has various review essays on books by and on Henri Lefebvre, including Rhythmanalysis, Critique of Everyday Life, and Urban Revolution Now.

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Books received – several volumes of the RSC Shakespeare from Palgrave

Posted on June 15, 2015 by stuartelden

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Several volumes of the RSC Shakespeare series in recompense for review work from Palgrave Macmillan. While I prefer the Arden third series for the texts and apparatus, these editions have useful introductions, especially on performance history, so I’ve been building up the set over the past couple of years.

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Interview with Joseph Masco by Sonia Grant

Posted on June 15, 2015 by stuartelden

Fascinating interview with Joseph Masco at the Society and Space open site.

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Foucault’s Heterotopia and Benjamin’s Arcade Project – a discussion by Peter Johnson

Posted on June 15, 2015 by stuartelden

Paris-arcades-220x300“Heterotopia and Benjamin’s Arcade Project” – a discussion by Peter Johnson at Heterotopian Studies.

I have been asked whether I think there is any productive link between heterotopia and Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project. I went back to Benjamin’s inspirational book and offer the following initial thoughts. For those unfamiliar with Benjamin’s work, I provide a very brief outline before addressing some similarities and differences between the two. Page references are to the 1999 translation (see below).

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Foucault and the Government of Disability (2015)

Posted on June 15, 2015 by stuartelden

Shelley Tremain’s collection Foucault and the Government of Disability is reissued in an enlarged and revised edition.

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tremainShelley Tremain, Editor, Foucault and the Government of Disability, University of Michigan, 2015

Enlarged and Revised Edition
An up-to-date edition of a foundational collection

Foucault and the Government of Disability considers the continued relevance of Foucault to disability studies, as well as the growing significance of disability studies to understandings of Foucault. A decade ago, this international collection provocatively responded to Foucault’s call to question what is regarded as natural, inevitable, ethical, and liberating. The book’s contributors draw on Foucault to scrutinize a range of widely endorsed practices and ideas surrounding disability, including rehabilitation, community care, impairment, normality and abnormality, inclusion, prevention, accommodation, and special education. In this revised and expanded edition, four new essays extend and elaborate the lines of inquiry by problematizing (to use Foucault’s term) the epistemological, political, and ethical character of the supercrip, the racialized war on autism, the performativity of intellectual disability, and the…

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David Farrell Krell, Phantoms of the Other: Four Generations of Derrida’s Geschlecht reviewed at NDPR

Posted on June 15, 2015 by stuartelden

63134_covDavid Farrell Krell, Phantoms of the Other: Four Generations of Derrida’s Geschlecht reviewed at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews by N. Gabriel Martin. My own review of this great book is forthcoming with Derrida Today.

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on June 14, 2015 by stuartelden
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Why should academics blog about their research? An answer in pictures

Posted on June 13, 2015 by stuartelden

Why should academics blog about their research? An answer in pictures at The Sociological Imagination. Four reasons in the full post.

Thanks to Jacqueline Bartram who drew these great cartoons as I was talking at a Hull event last week about academic blogging. Why should academics blog about their research?

It provides a home for things you reluctantly cut from your publications:

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Radio France Culture: Michel Foucault : Théories et institutions pénales.

Posted on June 13, 2015 by stuartelden

A short piece on the most recent Foucault lecture course.

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L’Essai et la revue du jour
par Jacques Munier
France Culture, 9 June 2015
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Michel Foucault : Théories et institutions pénales. Cours au Collège de France 1971-1972 (EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil)

« C’est un document exceptionnel » préviennent les éditeurs François Ewald et Bernard E. Harcourt dans le texte qu’ils consacrent à la Situation du cours, à la fois dans l’époque – l’immédiat après mai 68 et l’émergence de « nouveaux mouvements sociaux – mais aussi dans le parcours intellectuel de Foucault, dont c’est le deuxième cours prononcé au Collège de France. On voit dans ces treize leçons prendre forme la méthode généalogique qui sera sa « marque de fabrique », ainsi que sa théorie du pouvoir, saisi à travers la diversité de ses applications concrètes (police, justice, prison, folie, médecine, sexualité etc.) Il s’agit en l’occurrence de montrer la naissance au XVIIe siècle absolutiste de l’appareil répressif moderne et de l’État…

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