Monthly Archives: December 2022

Aaron Zielinski, The Imaginary Force of History: On Images, the Imaginary, and Myths in Foucault’s Early Works (2022)

Posted on December 18, 2022 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Aaron Zielinski (2022) The Imaginary Force of History: On images, the Imaginary, and Myths in Foucault’s Early Works, Critical Review, Published online: 09 Dec 2022 DOI: 10.1080/08913811.2022.2151709 ABSTRACT In manuscripts and unpublished articles written in…

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Thomas Pynchon sells his archive

Posted on December 17, 2022 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
At The New York Times, Jennifer Schuessler reports that Thomas Pynchon has sold his archive to Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. The article notes that the “archive includes 48 boxes —…

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Stuart Elden, The Archaeology of Foucault – Polity, December 2022

Posted on December 16, 2022 by stuartelden

Stuart Elden, The Archaeology of Foucault – Polity, December 2022 The fourth and final book in my series of studies of Foucault’s career is now published in the UK. US and rest of the world will follow in early 2023. … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, ‘Editing Georges Dumézil’s Mitra-Varuna’, Berfrois, December 2022

Posted on December 16, 2022 by stuartelden

Update September 2025: the Berfrois site is now closed and the archive has been removed. My piece can now be found here. I have a short piece at Berfrois, ‘Editing Georges Dumézil’s Mitra-Varuna‘. Sadly Berfrois is closing, so I want … Continue reading →

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Georges Bataille, Critical Essays Volume I: 1944-1948, ed. Alberto Toscano and Benjamin Noys, trans. Chris Turner – Seagull, February 2023

Posted on December 15, 2022 by stuartelden

Georges Bataille, Critical Essays Volume I: 1944-1948, ed. Alberto Toscano and Benjamin Noys, trans. Chris Turner – Seagull, February 2023 [Update: 34 early issues of Critique are available on Gallica – it looks like fewer, but some are double issues, … Continue reading →

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Patrick ffrench, Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics – Bloomsbury, April 2021 and New Books Network discussion

Posted on December 15, 2022 by stuartelden

Patrick ffrench, Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics – Bloomsbury, April 2021 The Introduction and part of the first chapter are available at the above link. There is also a New Books Network discussion with Bill Schaffer. Suspicious … Continue reading →

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David I. Backer, Althusser and Education: Reassessing Critical Education – Bloomsbury, July 2022 (print, and open access)

Posted on December 15, 2022 by stuartelden

David I. Backer, Althusser and Education: Reassessing Critical Education – Bloomsbury, July 2022 (print, and open access) Louis Althusser was one of the foremost Marxist philosophers of the 20th century. His thinking laid the groundwork for critical educational theory, yet … Continue reading →

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Kristi Sweet, Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: The Territory of the Third Critique – Cambridge University Press, January 2023 [and open access Introduction]

Posted on December 14, 2022 by stuartelden

Kristi Sweet, Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: The Territory of the Third Critique – Cambridge University Press, January 2023 Another expensive hardback, but looks interesting… [update: the Introduction is available open access] Update October 2025: NDPR review by Lara … Continue reading →

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Joanne Yao, The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order – Manchester University Press, March 2022 and New Books Network discussion

Posted on December 14, 2022 by stuartelden

Joanne Yao, The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order – Manchester University Press, March 2022 Just an expensive hardback at the moment, unfortunately. Environmental politics has traditionally been a peripheral concern for international relations theory, but … Continue reading →

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Sean D. Kirkland, Heidegger and the Destruction of Aristotle: On How to Read the Tradition – Northwestern University Press, July 2023

Posted on December 14, 2022 by stuartelden

Sean D. Kirkland, Heidegger and the Destruction of Aristotle: On How to Read the Tradition – Northwestern University Press, July 2023 A bold new conception of Heidegger’s project of Destruktion as a method of interpreting history For Martin Heidegger, our inherited traditions … Continue reading →

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