Politics and the Later Latour – call for papers

Posted on September 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Posted on behalf of Mark Edward:

Call for Papers: Politics and the Later Latour

Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought

Volume 4: Issue 4, November 2014

This August sees the publication of the English translation of Bruno Latour’s ‘An Inquiry into Modes of Existence’ (AIME), marking both a landmark in the long-collaborative AIME project and a significant development in Latour’s thought. This issue of Global Discourse will examine the political significance of Latour’s later work, which has seen important developments that expand and move beyond Actor-Network-Theory. In particular, the issue will explore Latour’s focus on modes of existence, the call for compositionism and the move from modernising to ecologising.

Among others, we welcome submissions on the following topics:

  • nonmodernist (political) modes of existence
  • Latour’s ecological thought
  • institutions and the epistemology of trust
  • reassembling the political after the modern

Building upon previous symposia with the likes of Noam Chomsky, Andrew Linklater, Guy Standing, David Graeber, Michael Shapiro and Axel Honneth, the issue will contain review symposia with Bruno Latour, who will respond to reviews of his recent An Inquiry into Modes of Existence and Graham Harman, who will respond to reviews of his Prince of Modes and Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political.

Deadlines for submissions for this issue are:

Abstracts: Nov 1st 2013

Full articles, of up to 8000 words, to be solicited on the basis of review of abstracts: April 1st 2014

Publication: November 2014

Further details: http://www.tandfonline.com/rgld (previous website: http://global-discourse.com)

Editor contact details: Mark Edward (m.d.edward22@gmail.com) and Matthew Johnson (m.johnson@lancs.ac.uk)

Journal Aims and Scope

Global Discourse is an interdisciplinary, problem-oriented journal of applied contemporary thought operating at the intersection of politics, international relations, sociology and social policy. The journal’s scope is broad, encouraging interrogation of current affairs with regard to core questions of distributive justice, wellbeing, cultural diversity, autonomy, sovereignty, security and recognition. Rejecting the notion that publication is the final stage in the research process, Global Discourse seeks to foster discussion and debate between often artificially isolated disciplines and paradigms, with responses to articles encouraged and conversations continued across issues. The journal features a mix of full-length articles, each accompanied by one or more replies, shorter essays, rapid replies, discussion pieces and book review symposia, typically consisting of three reviews and a reply by the author/s. With an international advisory editorial board consisting of experienced, highly-cited academics, Global Discourse welcomes submissions from and on any region. Authors are encouraged to explore the international dimensions and implications of their work. With a mix of themed and general issues, symposia are periodically deployed to examine topics as they emerge.

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Walter Benjamin discussion audio

Posted on September 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Benjamin discussed on Radio 4, with Esther Leslie, Jonathan Ree and Laurie Taylor.

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On becoming things: An interview with Axel Honneth

Posted on September 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Interview with Axel Honneth from the Platypus Review.

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The myth of deterritorialization: Rogério Haesbaert reviewed

Posted on September 3, 2013 by stuartelden

An excellent review of a really important-sounding book on territory, deterritorialisation and multiterritoriality. The book was written in Portuguese, and translated into Spanish – I’ll try to see what of Haesbaert’s work is available in French, as it appears there is nothing in English.

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What Bale earns – a real-time tracker, with comparisons

Posted on September 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Following Gareth Bale’s transfer to Real Madrid (officially starting today), a site that tracks what he has earned so far, along with comparisons.  At 4pm he had already earned 47 weeks of minimum wage. At 4.36pm it declares:

Bale can pay for a year of tuition fees!
Average of £8,507. That’s a year of fees for a little over 4 hours of chill time.

Thanks to David Campbell for the link.

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The Great University Gamble reviewed

Posted on September 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Andrew McGettigan, The Great University Gamble 9780745332932is reviewed in Radical Philosophy (open access). RP subscribers or people whose institution have a subscription can get the book at 25% off here.

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Terricide – RGS-IBG audio available

Posted on September 2, 2013 by stuartelden

My talk at the recent RGS-IBG conference is available here. This was part of a session on Geo-social formations: Capitalism and the Earth (details here and here), organised by Arun Saldanha, Kathryn Yusoff and Nigel Clark.

Terricide – Lefebvre, Geopolitics and the Killing of the Earth

In a few places in his four volume study De l’État, Henri Lefebvre briefly discusses the idea of terricide—the killing, destruction or death of the earth. His sources are the poet Jean-Clarence Lambert and, less directly, the philosopher Kostas Axelos. Lefebvre locates the tensions in the international state system, and suggests that while reason of state might be attributed to each of the members, rationality does not characterise the system taken as a whole. His immediate context, writing in the mid 1970s, would seem to be the superpower conflict of the Cold War, but here and elsewhere there are hints that this might be linked to other issues—environmental degradation, modern technology, growth over development, the state mode of production and capitalism more generally.

How might Lefebvre’s spur to consider the potential destruction of the earth help us in rethinking geopolitics? Geopolitics is all-too-often seen as a synonym for global politics, international relations writ large, without much thought given to the globe, much less the world or the earth. But if geopolitics was to return to its etymological roots, as a politics of the earth, it might productively link with discussions of geopower and geophilosophy. This paper brings Lefebvre, Lambert and Axelos into those discussions.

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Cambridge Foucault Lexicon – forthcoming

Posted on September 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Cambridge FoucaultCambridge University Press have a page up for the forthcoming The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, edited by Leonard Lawlor and John Nale. I wrote the entry on ‘space’. It looks like this is going to be another expensive, destined for libraries only, hardback – a shame.

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Koopman, Genealogy as Critique reviewed at NDPR

Posted on September 2, 2013 by stuartelden

KoopmanColin Koopman’s important book on Foucault, Genealogy as Critique, is reviewed at NDPR.

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# CINEMA /// Coriolanus and the State of Exception

Posted on September 2, 2013 by stuartelden

The Funambulist discusses Coriolanus – Shakespeare’s play and Ralph Fiennes’s recent film.

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Coriolanus01Still from the film Coriolanus by Ralph Fiennes (2011)

Before being a historical figure, Caius Marcius Coriolanus is a legendary one. He, as an actual person was a Roman general who lived in the fifth century before Christ. What belongs to history and what belongs to the myth about him remains unclear today. The following text will therefore address his (hi)story without the doubts and precautions that a historian would need to systematically indicate when addressing this same story.

Coriolanus’s story is brought to us by the 1608 play written by William Shakespeare. General Caius Marcius earn his name of Coriolanus by his glorious victory against the Volscian city of Corioli. Strengthen by this success, he is encouraged to run for Consul of Rome. Despite an apparent support from both the Senate and the Plebe, he has to face riots from the latter. He finally publicly expresses his…

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