Monthly Archives: April 2020

Georges Bataille’s Oeuvres complètes and English translations – list updated to include all volumes

Posted on April 30, 2020 by stuartelden

I’ve done some further updating to the list of works in Georges Bataille’s Oeuvres complètes and other French collections and the English translations. The main addition is that I’ve now listed the articles in Volumes XI and XII of the Oeuvres … Continue reading →

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Where to start with reading Peter Sloterdijk? – reading guide updated with recent translations

Posted on April 30, 2020 by stuartelden

Where to start with reading Peter Sloterdijk? – my reading guide has been updated with recent translations from Polity. I’d still suggest beginning with either You Must Change Your Life or In the World Interior of Capital, depending on whether you are … Continue reading →

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10 years of Progressive Geographies – thanks for reading

Posted on April 30, 2020 by stuartelden

I launched this site 10 years ago – both as a blog, but also as a place to share publications, some research resources and other things. I never imagined I’d still be running it a decade later. My focus has … Continue reading →

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PAIS to Launch Global Insights Panel Series reflecting on COVID-19 in collaboration with international partners in Canada, the US, Germany and Ethiopia

Posted on April 30, 2020 by stuartelden

Politics and International Studies at Warwick, along with partner institutions, is launching a Global Insights Panel Series reflecting on COVID-19 in collaboration with international partners in Canada, the US, Germany and Ethiopia. Registration required, but free and open to all, … Continue reading →

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“Foucault Was Always Much More Circumspect”: Stuart Elden on Foucault’s Politics and the Rediscovery of His Early Years – 2nd part of Journal of the History of Ideas interview

Posted on April 29, 2020 by stuartelden

The second part of my interview with Jonas Knatz and Anne Schult for the Journal of History of Ideas blog is now available – “Foucault Was Always Much More Circumspect”: Stuart Elden on Foucault’s Politics and the Rediscovery of His … Continue reading →

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Where to find British Library maps online

Posted on April 29, 2020 by stuartelden

Tom Harper has a list of where to find British Library maps online at the British Library Maps and Views blog.

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Marlon Salomon, Obituary, François Delaporte (1941 – 2019)

Posted on April 28, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Marlon Salomon, Obituary, François Delaporte (1941 – 2019) Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science (6) 2019: 115-123 DOI: 10.24117/2526-2270.2019.i6.11 Open access On the 28th of May, the French philosopher and historian of sciences,…

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Two new Sloterdijk translations from Polity – After God and Infinite Mobilisation

Posted on April 28, 2020 by stuartelden

Two new Sloterdijk translations from Polity – After God, translated by Ian Alexander Moore, and Infinite Mobilisation, translated by Sandra Berjan. Here’s the press description for After God. In his Critique of Cynical Reason, Peter Sloterdijk pursued an enlightenment of the … Continue reading →

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Historicizing Foucault: Stuart Elden on Tracing Foucault’s Ideas from Discipline and Punish to the History of Sexuality

Posted on April 27, 2020 by stuartelden

Historicizing Foucault: Stuart Elden on Tracing Foucault’s Ideas from Discipline and Punish to the History of Sexuality – part 1 of a longer interview at the Journal of History of Ideas blog, conducted earlier this month. My thanks to Anne … Continue reading →

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Books received – Veyne, Dumézil, Bataille & Leiris, Eliade, Chapsal

Posted on April 24, 2020 by stuartelden

Trying to keep second-hand booksellers in business… a pile of recently bought books, including Paul Veyne’s memoirs, the English translation of the Bataille-Leiris correspondence, the first volume of Mircea Eliade’s journals, a collection of interviews by Madeleine Chapsal, and some … Continue reading →

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