Monthly Archives: June 2023

Books received – Milner, Lévi-Strauss, Lefebvre, Guattari, Saussure, Walters & Tazzioli

Posted on June 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Some books for the Indo-European thought project, together with the copy of Musset Henri Lefebvre gave to Georges Bataille (more here) and William Walters and Martina Tazzioli (eds.), Handbook on Governmentality, in which I have a chapter on Foucault and … Continue reading →

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Julian Jackson, France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain – Harvard University Press/Allen Lane, June 2023

Posted on June 12, 2023 by stuartelden

Julian Jackson, France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain – Harvard University Press/Allen Lane, June 2023 One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French history Few images more shocked … Continue reading →

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Martin Jay, Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School under Pressure – Verso, October 2023

Posted on June 11, 2023 by stuartelden

Martin Jay, Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School under Pressure – Verso, October 2023 update November 2023: there is a New Books discussion with Ryan Tripp here Fifty years after the appearance of The Dialectical Imagination, his pioneering history of the Frankfurt School, Martin … Continue reading →

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Daniel Loick, The Abuse of Property, trans. Jacob Blumenfeld – MIT Press, August 2023

Posted on June 10, 2023 by stuartelden

Daniel Loick, The Abuse of Property, trans. Jacob Blumenfeld – MIT Press, August 2023 A fundamental critique of the current property regime, calling for radical social and political change. In The Abuse of Property, Daniel Loick offers a multifaceted philosophical critique … Continue reading →

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René Girard, All Desire is a Desire for Being: Essential Writings, ed. Cynthia L. Haven – Penguin, June 2023

Posted on June 9, 2023 by stuartelden

René Girard, All Desire is a Desire for Being: Essential Writings, ed. Cynthia L. Haven – Penguin, June 2023 Haven’s biography of Girard, Evolution of Desire, was published in 2018.

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Theory, Culture and Society Special Issue: ‘Foucault Before the Collège de France’ – *open access until mid-June*

Posted on June 9, 2023 by stuartelden

Theory, Culture and Society Special Issue: ‘Foucault Before the Collège de France‘, edited by Stuart Elden, Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini A reminder that all papers are open access until mid June 2023 – after that date only a few … Continue reading →

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Colin McFarlane, Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife – Verso, August 2023

Posted on June 8, 2023 by stuartelden

Colin McFarlane, Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife – Verso, August 2023 [update September 2023 – Colin reflects on the book’s writing here; and provides an open access link] In an age of … Continue reading →

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D.J.S. Cross, Deleuze and the Problem of Affect – Edinburgh University Press, May 2023 (paperback)

Posted on June 8, 2023 by stuartelden

D.J.S. Cross, Deleuze and the Problem of Affect – Edinburgh University Press, May 2023 (paperback)

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Annie Pfeifer, To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation – Cornell University Press, 2023

Posted on June 7, 2023 by stuartelden

Annie Pfeifer, To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation – Cornell University Press, 2023 To the Collector Belong the Spoils rethinks collecting as an artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice, which flourishes beyond institutions like museums … Continue reading →

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Sheryl Lightfoot and Elsa Stamatopoulou eds., Indigenous Peoples and Borders – Duke University Press, February 2024

Posted on June 6, 2023 by stuartelden

Sheryl Lightfoot and Elsa Stamatopoulou eds., Indigenous Peoples and Borders – Duke University Press, February 2024 The legacies of borders are far-reaching for Indigenous Peoples. This collection offers new ways of understanding borders by departing from statist approaches to territoriality. Bringing … Continue reading →

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