Monthly Archives: January 2023

Nikolina Bobic and Farzaneh Haghighi (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume I: Violence, Spectacle and Data – Routledge, November 2022

Posted on January 27, 2023 by stuartelden

Nikolina Bobic and Farzaneh Haghighi (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume I: Violence, Spectacle and Data – Routledge, November 2022 One for libraries, at this price… [update Jan 2023: a more affordable e-book is also … Continue reading →

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A big day for Lacan publications… Premier écrits, Seminar XIV: La Loqique du fantasme, English translation of Seminar XIX: Or Worse, Points edition of Seminar V

Posted on January 27, 2023 by stuartelden

27 January 2023 seems to be a big day for Lacan publications…                  Premier écrits – on which I say a little here Le Séminaire Livre XIV: La Logique du fantasme, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller – the first seminar to be published … Continue reading →

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Carlo Ginzburg: ‘In history as in cinema, every close-up implies an off-screen scene’

Posted on January 26, 2023 by stuartelden

Carlo Ginzburg: ‘In history as in cinema, every close-up implies an off-screen scene’ – Verso blog translated by David Fernbach from a text in Le Monde des Livres

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Cara Nine, Sharing Territories: Overlapping Self-Determination and Resource Rights – Oxford University Press, March 2022

Posted on January 26, 2023 by stuartelden

Cara Nine, Sharing Territories: Overlapping Self-Determination and Resource Rights – Oxford University Press, March 2022

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Joseph Vogl, Capital and Ressentiment: A Short Theory of the Present, translated by Neil Solomon – Polity, November 2022

Posted on January 26, 2023 by stuartelden

Joseph Vogl, Capital and Ressentiment: A Short Theory of the Present, translated by Neil Solomon – Polity, November 2022 The proliferation of social media has provided ideal conditions in which feelings of anger and frustration can be expressed and shared, … Continue reading →

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Engin Isin relaunched website – The Subjects of Politics

Posted on January 25, 2023 by stuartelden

Engin Isin has relaunched his website – The Subjects of Politics – with most of his publications available to download, some thematic organisation with “reflections on concepts and methods that guided it and the questions that motivated it”, along with possible connections to an “interest in … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Lacan, Tamm, Geoghegan, Barthes

Posted on January 23, 2023 by stuartelden

A few books bought recently, including Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory and Jacques Lacan’s The Object Relation, recently out in paperback.

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Christos Lynteris, Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography – MIT Press, October 2022 (print and open access)

Posted on January 23, 2023 by stuartelden

Christos Lynteris, Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography – MIT Press, October 2022 Available in print and open access

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Jing Tsu, Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China – Allen Lane, January 2022 [paperback January 2023]

Posted on January 22, 2023 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Jing Tsu, Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China – Allen Lane, January 2022 [paperback January 2023 – UK; USA] China today is one of the world’s most powerful…

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Natalie Koch, Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia – Verso, January 2023

Posted on January 22, 2023 by stuartelden

Natalie Koch, Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia – Verso, January 2023 A revelatory new history of the colonization of the American West, by way of camels, date palms, and Biosphere 2 The iconic deserts of the … Continue reading →

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