Stuart Hall – Culture and Power interview from 1997 in RP now open access

Posted on November 10, 2013 by stuartelden

Radical Philosophy have made a 1997 interview with Stuart Hall, “Culture and Power” available open access.

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Interview with Adrian Ivakhiv by Harlan Morehouse

Posted on November 8, 2013 by stuartelden

Very interesting interview at the Society and Space open site, with Adrian Ivakhiv on his new book Ecologies of the Moving Image, conducted by Harlan Morehouse.

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Latour’s Gifford lectures – text now available as pdf

Posted on November 8, 2013 by stuartelden

Update 2019: These links seem to be dead, but the pdf of the lectures can be found here; and the videos here. The lectures are now available as a book – details here.

Bruno Latour has made the text of his Gifford lectures available as a pdf on his site –Facing Gaia: Six lectures on the political theology of nature. Thanks to Owain Jones for the link (it seems this may have been available for a while; but news to me). The lectures were all video-recorded and I linked to them a while back – the links are all at the Edinburgh site.

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The Birth of Territory – author meets critics session at the AAG

Posted on November 8, 2013 by stuartelden

Claudio Minca and Jeremy Crampton have organised an ‘author meets critics’ session on The Birth of Territory for the Association of American Geographers in Tampa next year. The panellists will be Juliet Fall, Alec Murphy, Joe Bryan and Anssi Paasi, with Claudio and Jeremy introducing, chairing and discussing. Stephen Legg is organising a more historical geography-orientated group for the Royal Geography Society-Institute of British Geographers meeting later in the year. I’m very grateful for the interest the book has had, and it will be good to discuss it in these sessions.

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Books received – Heidegger Gesamtausgabe volumes

Posted on November 8, 2013 by stuartelden

Heidegger booksRecently received, two huge volumes of the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe. The first, itself in two parts, is Volume 73, one of the manuscripts Heidegger chose not to publish in his lifetime, under the title of Zum Ereignis Denken. This follows from the important Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis) – Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event). The second is Volume 84.1, only part one of another two-part volume, this time of seminar materials on Kant-Leibniz-Schiller. This part comprises seminars from 1931-36. The second part is not due out until 2014 or 2015.

The two parts in a single volume number, while perhaps understandable in the case of Volume 73 given the size of the manuscript, shows poor planning on the part of Volume 84. There are other instances when some volumes have double numbers – i.e. 29/30 and 56/57. But the edition is getting towards the end now, and these new volumes are constrained by previously published volumes and the numbers chosen for them. Divisions I (published writings) and II (lecture courses) are now complete, and Division III (unpublished writings and lectures) is almost finished – the most interesting-looking volume we are still awaiting here is Volume 80, which will include early versions of well known talks. Division IV includes seminar materials, notebooks, some correspondence (though much has been published outside this edition) and preliminary sketches. Most of the seminars are now published, though a couple of volumes remain; none of the notes and correspondence are yet published in this edition. A definite case of diminishing returns in what is left, but still a lot of material to work through.

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Criticism and critique: On academic books

Posted on November 8, 2013 by stuartelden

An interesting post on how books are received for their promise rather than read and appreciated, with some good examples.

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Reassembling International Theory – new edited collection

Posted on November 8, 2013 by stuartelden

ReassemblingComing out later this month, an interesting looking collection entitled Reassembling International Theory: Assemblage Thinking and International Relations, edited by Michele Acuto and Simon Curtis. Outrageous price of £45 for 136 pages though.

What can ‘assemblage thinking’ contribute to international theory?

Assemblages have been invoked in several disciplines to make sense of the heterogeneity of the elements of society and the ways in which these are politically intertwined. Can parallel developments be prompted in IR?

Reassembling International Theory investigates how the contemporary debates on assemblages in social theory can contribute to generating critical considerations on the connections and dissociation of political agency, physical world and international dynamics. It draws on a variety of international relations experiences and on conversations with key ‘assemblage’ theorists to tease out the theoretical and methodological implications, ontological and material dynamics, as well as the politics of assemblage thinking.

Including contributions from Rita Abrahamsen, Roland Bleiker, Antoine Bousquet, Christian Bueger, David Chandler, Stephen Collier, Olaf Corry, Xavier Guillaume, Graham Harman, Debbie Lisle, Maximilian Mayer, Aihwa Ong, Mark Salter, Saskia Sassen, Peer Schouten, Nick Srnicek and Michael Williams, this text will appeal to scholars in International Relations, Political Sociology and Human Geography.

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Our new paper on intelligence now online

Posted on November 7, 2013 by stuartelden

Crampton, Roberts and Poorthuis on ‘The new political economy of geographical intelligence’ now available online.

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Very excited to announce our paper “The New Political Economy of Geographical Intelligence” is now online at the publisher’s website for the Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

The publishers have provided a link for free access to the first 50 people (click here for free access)! (Edit: these have unfortunately all been claimed)

The regular link which will remain after those free accesses are used up is this one http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00045608.2013.843436

Abstract

A troubling new political economy of geographical intelligence has emerged in the United States over the last two decades. The contours of this new political economy are difficult to identify due to official policies keeping much relevant information secret. The U.S. intelligence community increasingly relies on private corporations, working as contractors, to undertake intelligence work, including geographical intelligence (formally known as GEOINT). In this article we first describe the geography intelligence “contracting nexus” consisting of tens of thousands…

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L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi. Conférences prononcées à Dartmouth College, 1980

Posted on November 7, 2013 by stuartelden

Interesting new publication of Foucault’s lectures. These particular ones have long been available in English, but there appears to be new material in this volume, and more to come in the series.

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Michel Foucault, L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi. Conférences prononcées à Dartmouth College, 1980, Paris, Vrin, coll. « Philosophie du présent / Foucault inédit », 2013 (168 pages, ISBN 978-2-7116-2509-3, 14€).

Édition établie par Henri-Paul Fruchaud et Daniele Lorenzini.
Introduction et apparat critique par L. Cremonesi, A.I. Davidson, O. Irrera, D. Lorenzini, M. Tazzioli.

En novembre 1980, Michel Foucault prononce en anglais, à Dartmouth College, deux conférences intitulées Truth and Subjectivity et Christianity and Confession. Dans ces conférences, à travers l’étude des techniques de soi, et notamment de l’examen de conscience et de l’aveu, dans l’Antiquité gréco-romaine et le christianisme primitif, Foucault retrace la généalogie du sujet moderne et de l’herméneutique de soi qui nous caractérise encore aujourd’hui.

Cette édition présente pour la première fois la traduction française des conférences de Dartmouth College, avec les variantes de la version prononcée par Foucault le mois précédent à l’Université de…

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Foucault Doctoral Workshop – call for papers

Posted on November 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Posted on behalf of Philippe Bonditti:

Call for papers (in English and French) for the Foucault Doctoral Workshop organized by the Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault (Paris).

It will take place next January 15th and 16th 2014 at IMEC (Abbaye d’Ardenne, near Caen) on the theme:

From ‘Security societies’ to (neo-)liberalism. Foucault, the Modern International and World Politics.

 Proposals should be sent either in French or English before December 15th, 2013.

All information regarding the modalities of participation appear in the document – English and French.

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