Monthly Archives: December 2022

My favourite music of 2022

Posted on December 31, 2022 by stuartelden

And live, I particularly enjoyed Big Big Train, Frost*, Marillion, Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets, The Neal Morse Band, Porcupine Tree, Transatlantic, Van der Graaf Generator and the streaming of Nik Bärtsch’s Montags series at yourstage.live [I should have shared … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2022

Posted on December 30, 2022 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021). The criteria was simply that they were published in that year (or late the previous year), and that I read and appreciated them. … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies. New Issue (December 2022)

Posted on December 30, 2022 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Foucault Studies. Number 33, December 2022 Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al Articles The Use and Misuse of Pleasure: Hadot contra Foucault on the Stoic Dichotomy Gaudium-Voluptas in Seneca Matteo Johannes Stettler The Subject of Desire…

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Michael Hardt – Empire, 20 Years On (podcast)

Posted on December 29, 2022 by stuartelden

Michael Hardt – Empire, 20 Years On Michael Hardt joined Coop and Taylor for a look at his work with a focus on an article from he and Toni Negri titled, Empire, 20 Years On. We look back at some … Continue reading →

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Brett Christophers, Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World – Verso, April 2023

Posted on December 29, 2022 by stuartelden

Brett Christophers, Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World – Verso, April 2023 All hail the new masters of Capitalism: How asset managers acquired the world Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a … Continue reading →

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Indo-European thought project update 8: working on Barthes, Lévi-Strauss and the Mission Paul Pelliot

Posted on December 23, 2022 by stuartelden

Since the last update on this project I’ve not done quite what I intended. I had thought I’d begin working systematically through Georges Dumézil’s works in a chronological way, filling in much detail and some gaps in my previous reading. Instead I went down … Continue reading →

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Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program, trans. Kevin B. Anderson and Karel Ludenhoff – PM Press, October 2022

Posted on December 23, 2022 by stuartelden

Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program, trans. Kevin B. Anderson and Karel Ludenhoff – PM Press, October 2022 Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program is a revelation. It offers the fullest elaboration of his vision for a communist future, free from … Continue reading →

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Jacques Lacan, Premiers écrits, Seuil, January 2023 [updated]

Posted on December 23, 2022 by stuartelden

Jacques Lacan, Premiers écrits, Seuil, January 2023 Avant que d’être psychanalyste, Lacan a été psychiatre. On n’aurait pas republié ses premiers écrits s’ils n’invitaient à une lecture après coup. Que nous apprennent-ils de la formation du futur analyste ? Sa … Continue reading →

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Books received – Blanchot, Lévi-Strauss, Hollier, Jackson, Barthes

Posted on December 23, 2022 by stuartelden

Mainly second-hand books bought for the Indo-European thought project, but also Mark Laurence Jackson, Diagrams of Power in Benjamin and Foucault: The Recluse of Architecture, in recompense for review work.

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Thomas S. Kuhn, The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science, edited by Bojana Mladenovic – University of Chicago Press, November 2022

Posted on December 22, 2022 by stuartelden

The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science, edited by Bojana Mladenovic – University of Chicago Press, November 2022 A must-read follow-up to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most important books of the twentieth century.  This … Continue reading →

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