Monthly Archives: October 2019

David Beer, The Quirks of Digital Culture – Emerald, 2019

Posted on October 11, 2019 by stuartelden

David Beer, The Quirks of Digital Culture – Emerald, 2019 The culture we consume is increasingly delivered to us via various digital on-demand platforms. The last decade has seen platforms like Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, Google and the like become … Continue reading →

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Antipod: A Radical Geography Podcast and Sound Collective from Antipode

Posted on October 10, 2019 by stuartelden

Antipod: A Radical Geography Podcast and Sound Collective from Antipode Many will know (and love) it already, but for those that don’t we’re pleased to share here Antipod: A Radical Geography Podcast and Sound Collective. Launched earlier this year by … Continue reading →

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Neglected works in Intellectual History at the Journal of the History of Ideas blog

Posted on October 10, 2019 by stuartelden

Neglected works in Intellectual History at the Journal of the History of Ideas blog suggestions from William J. Connell, Joyce Chaplin, Samuel Moyn, and Martin Jay; loads more at their Reading Lists page  

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Laleh Khalili, Sinews of War and Trade Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula – Verso, May 2020

Posted on October 8, 2019 by stuartelden

Laleh Khalili, Sinews of War and Trade Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula – Verso, May 2020 On the map of global trade, China is now the factory of the world. A parade of ships full of raw commodities … Continue reading →

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The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot, translated by Matthew Sharpe and Federico Testa, Bloomsbury, 2019

Posted on October 8, 2019 by stuartelden

The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot, translated by Matthew Sharpe and Federico Testa, Bloomsbury, 2019 This collection of writings from Pierre Hadot (1992-2010) presents, for the first time, previously unreleased and in some cases untranslated materials from one of the … Continue reading →

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Foucault resources – some updates and reorganisation

Posted on October 7, 2019 by stuartelden

While I’ve been writing the sequence of books on Foucault for Polity – Foucault’s Last Decade;  Foucault: The Birth of Power and the ongoing The Early Foucault – I’ve been making available some research resources. These have included bibliographies, lists of audio and … Continue reading →

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Books received – Arendt, Bataille, Wahl

Posted on October 7, 2019 by stuartelden

Some books recently bought second-hand – mainly by Hannah Arendt but also Bataille’s Eroticism and Jean Wahl, Esquisse pour une histoire de l’existentialisme. I’ve read most of the Arendt books before, but I’m teaching her again this year and so it’s helpful … Continue reading →

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Miles Ogborn, The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World, University of Chicago Press, 2019

Posted on October 4, 2019 by stuartelden

Miles Ogborn, The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World, University of Chicago Press, 2019 The institution of slavery has always depended on enforcing the boundaries between slaveholders and the enslaved. As historical geographer Miles Ogborn reveals … Continue reading →

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Land and Territory – Thinking Aloud with Brett Christophers and Penelope Anthias

Posted on October 4, 2019 by stuartelden

Land and territory on Thinking Allowed Land Struggles: From Bolivia to Britain, the way that land is owned and controlled is central to many contemporary inequalities and political battles. Laurie Taylor talks to Brett Christophers, Professor in the Department of Social … Continue reading →

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Kate Kirkpatrick, Becoming Beauvoir: A Life – Bloomsbury, 2019 (and short piece in The Guardian)

Posted on October 4, 2019 by stuartelden

Kate Kirkpatrick, Becoming Beauvoir: A Life – Bloomsbury, 2019 “One is not born a woman, but becomes one”, Simone de Beauvoir A symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir’s unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer, and … Continue reading →

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