Monthly Archives: May 2020

Books received – Merleau-Ponty, Bataille, Dumézil, Arboleda, Khalili, Patron

Posted on May 19, 2020 by stuartelden

Second-hand books by Merleau-Ponty, Bataille and Dumézil; Martin Arboleda, Planetary Mine and Laleh Khalili, Sinews of War and Trade from the Verso sale; and Sylvie Patron, Critique 1946-1996.

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Faut-il brûler… Sade, Dumézil, Heidegger, Kafka – a question on the use of a trope [updated]

Posted on May 18, 2020 by stuartelden

I had previously thought that the use of the expression ‘Faut-il brûler… ?’ – ‘must we burn.. ?’ someone or something was due to Simone de Beauvoir. Her text Faut-il brûler Sade? first appeared in Les temps modernes in 1951 and 1952, and … Continue reading →

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Keith Thomas on the working methods of a historian (archive)

Posted on May 18, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Keith Thomas on the working methods of a historian – archive piece from the LRB. I shared this back in the early days of this blog, but I came across it again today, and it’s worth…

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Michel Foucault, Confessions of the Flesh: History of Sexuality Volume IV, translated by Robert Hurley – Penguin January 2021

Posted on May 17, 2020 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Confessions of the Flesh: History of Sexuality Volume IV, translated by Robert Hurley, edited by Frédéric Gros – Penguin January 2021 Long awaited news of the English translation of this text, first published in French in early 2018. … Continue reading →

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

Posted on May 16, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
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…

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Hashim Sarkis, Roi Salgueiro Barrio and Gabriel Kozlowski, The World as an Architectural Project – MIT Press, March 2020

Posted on May 15, 2020 by stuartelden

Hashim Sarkis, Roi Salgueiro Barrio and Gabriel Kozlowski, The World as an Architectural Project – MIT Press, March 2020 [updated to correct the attribution – the three names are the book’s authors, not editors. My apologies.] Architects imagine the planet: … Continue reading →

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Alain Badiou – the film, directed by Gorav and Rohan Kalyan

Posted on May 15, 2020 by stuartelden

Badiou – the film, directed by Gorav and Rohan Kalyan (more details here)

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Truth and Knowledge for Michel Foucault, with Ann Stoler (2020)

Posted on May 15, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Truth and Knowledge for Michel Foucault, with Ann Stoler Great Books 31, Think About It | Podcast Conversations on big ideas and great books hosted by Uli Baer. Why is everyone talking about Michel Foucault…

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Christopher Harker, Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine – Duke University Press, December 2020

Posted on May 15, 2020 by stuartelden

Christopher Harker, Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine – Duke University Press, December 2020 In Spacing Debt Christopher Harker demonstrates that financial debt is as much a spatial phenomenon as it is a temporal and social one. … Continue reading →

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History of the Human Sciences, Volume 33, Number 1, 2020 – Cybernetics and the Human Sciences, edited by Stefanos Geroulanos and Leif Weatherby (requires subscription)

Posted on May 15, 2020 by stuartelden

History of the Human Sciences, Volume 33, Number 1, 2020 – Cybernetics and the Human Sciences, edited by Stefanos Geroulanos and Leif Weatherby (requires subscription) Cybernetics saturates the humanities. Norbert Wiener’s movement gave vocabulary and hardware to developments all across the early … Continue reading →

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