Becker and Foucault on “Crime and Punishment” with Gary Becker, François Ewald, and Bernard Harcourt. Session 2

Posted on September 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Another video of Becker, Ewald and Harcourt discussing Foucault.

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Gary S. Becker, François Ewald & Bernard E. Harcourt, Becker and Foucault on Crime and Punishment’: A Conversation with Gary Becker, François Ewald, and Bernard Harcourt: The Second Session (Coase- Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Working Paper No.654, 2013

[Editor: Update 15 March 2026. I have updated the links below to the archived pages held on The Wayback Machine as well as a page still available online]

This is an edited transcript of a conversation held at The University of Chicago on May 15, 2013, in Foster Hall 505, the seminar room of the Committee on Social Thought. The video recording of the open seminar can be viewed on-line at [this link]. It represents a continuation of a conversation begun the year before, titled “Becker on Ewald on Foucault on Becker”: American Neoliberalism & Michel Foucault’s 1979 Birth of Biopolitics Lectures. That first session can be viewed on-line…

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In Marx’s Laboratory – Critical Readings of the Grundrisse

Posted on September 25, 2013 by stuartelden

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Initially an expensive hardback, but paperback to follow.

Edited by Riccardo Bellofiore, University of Bergamo, Italy, Guido Starosta, National University of Quilmes, Argentina, and Peter D. Thomas, Brunel University, London

In Marx’s Laboratory. Critical Interpretations of the Grundrisse provides a critical analysis of the Grundrisse as a crucial stage in the development of Marx’s critique of political economy. Stressing both the achievements and limitations of this much-debated text, and drawing upon recent philological advances, this volume attempts to re-read Marx’s 1857-58 manuscripts against the background of Capital, as a ‘laboratory’ in which Marx first began to clarify central elements of his mature problematic. With chapters by an international range of authors from different traditions of interpretation, including the International Symposium on Marxian Theory, this volume provides an in-depth analysis of key themes and concepts in the Grundrisse, such as method, dialectics and abstraction; abstract labour, value, money and capital; technology, the ‘general intellect’ and revolutionary subjectivity, surplus-value, competition, crisis; and society, gender, ecology and pre-capitalist forms.

Contributors include: Chris Arthur, Luca Basso, Riccardo Bellofiore, George Caffentzis, Martha Campbell, Juan Iñigo Carrera, Howard Engelskirchen, Roberto Fineschi, Michael Heinrich, Fred Moseley, Patrick Murray, Geert Reuten, Tony Smith, Guido Starosta, Massimiliano Tomba, Jan Toporowski, Peter D. Thomas, Joel Wainwright, and Amy Wendling.

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Disclosure – issue on Security, with an interview with Jane Guyer, Stuart Elden, Russ Castronovo and Michael Hardt

Posted on September 25, 2013 by stuartelden

The new issue of the University of Kentucky journal DisClosure is now available. It is on the theme of Security, and includes excerpts from an interview with me from when I visited UK last year, alongside contributions from Jane Guyer, Russ Castronovo and Michael Hardt.

This visit was to give a Social Theory lecture, the video of which can be found here. This became the ‘Secure the Volume’ piece published in Political Geography.

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Martin Heidegger, The Event reviewed by Miguel de Beistegui

Posted on September 25, 2013 by stuartelden

9780253006868_medMartin Heidegger, The Event is reviewed by Miguel de Beistegui at NDPR.

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The US Carceral Society Forum

Posted on September 24, 2013 by stuartelden

A forum of papers on the US carceral society at the Society and Space open site.

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Prison Virtual Theme Issue

Posted on September 24, 2013 by stuartelden

A virtual theme issue on prisons at the Society and Space open site (papers open access until November).

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BLDGBLOG interview with Ron Blakey

Posted on September 22, 2013 by stuartelden

Very interesting and superbly illustrated interview at BLDGBLOG with Ron Blakey:

The paleo-tectonic maps of retired geologist Ronald Blakey are mesmerizing and impossible to forget once you’ve seen them. Catalogued on his website Colorado Plateau Geosystems, these maps show the world adrift, its landscapes breaking apart and reconnecting again in entirely new forms, where continents are as temporary as the island chains that regularly smash together to create them, on a timescale where even oceans that exist for tens of millions of years can disappear leaving only the subtlest of geological traces.

With a particular emphasis on North America and the U.S. Southwest—where Blakey still lives, in Flagstaff, Arizona—these visually engaging reconstructions of the Earth’s distant past show how dynamic a planet we live on, and imply yet more, unrecognizable changes ahead.

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Anthropocene – New Temporalities, New Spatialities

Posted on September 22, 2013 by stuartelden

Some interesting discussion of the RGS-IBG sessions on capitalism and the earth at Seeing the Woods.

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Noel Castree on the Anthropocene – Jon Murdoch memorial lecture

Posted on September 22, 2013 by stuartelden

Jon Murdoch Memorial Lecture

October 16th, 2013

5:30 p.m. drinks for 6 p.m. Lecture in Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII avenue, CF10 3WA, Cardiff

Prof. Noel Castree, University of Manchester

‘Representing the Anthropocene: who will get to speak for everything, and how?

‘The Anthropocene’ has morphed from a neologism to a buzzword in the academic world, but has yet to become a keyword in the wider world. An unusually big and future facing idea with far-reaching implications for the present, the Anthropocene may in time become part of the lingua franca in the commercial, political and public realms. This lecture engages in some ‘anticipatory semantics’. It explores who might seek to represent the Anthropocene, including but going beyond the epistemic community of scientists who have so far made most of the discursive running. In so doing the lecture examines the ways different meanings may be invested in the Anthropocene, meanings both reflective and generative of radically different conceptions of a world to come. It also asks what role do social scientists and humanities scholars have to play in determining which meanings become visible and socially influential.

Registration (free) at www.cardiff.ac.uk/cplan/event

For further information please contact:
Carl Smith
Administration Assistant – I and E Events Organiser
Cardiff School of Planning and Geography
Cardiff University
Glamorgan Building/
King Edward VII Avenue
Cardiff CF10 3WA
Wales, UK
Tel +44(0)29 2087 4882

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Discussion about refereeing a book manuscript at New APPS

Posted on September 22, 2013 by stuartelden

Interesting piece on reviewing a book manuscript, with some good discussion in comments.

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