Monthly Archives: August 2023

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 13: work on Benveniste, Saussure and in UK archives, a seminar on the research, and a brief health update

Posted on August 31, 2023 by stuartelden

In an earlier post here I briefly mentioned the medical issues that put me in hospital for three weeks in July. The operation was a success and I am making a good, though slow, recovery. I have been at home for a … Continue reading →

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Noémie Ndiaye and Lia Markey (eds.), Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World – ACMRS Press, April 2023 (print and open access)

Posted on August 30, 2023 by stuartelden

Noémie Ndiaye and Lia Markey (eds.), Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World – ACMRS Press, April 2023 (print and open access) The capacious visual archive studied in this volume includes a trove … Continue reading →

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Foucault books – updated page with links to reviews, resources and talks

Posted on August 29, 2023 by stuartelden

I’ve updated the page on this blog about my series of Foucault books, The page has book descriptions, links to reviews, the updates I wrote while researching and writing the books and other related materials. Some translations, scans, textual analysis … Continue reading →

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Johannes Angermuller and Philippe Blanchard, Careers of the Professoriate: Academic Pathways of the Linguists and Sociologists in Germany, France and the UK – Palgrave, 2023

Posted on August 28, 2023 by stuartelden

Johannes Angermuller and Philippe Blanchard, Careers of the Professoriate: Academic Pathways of the Linguists and Sociologists in Germany, France and the UK – Palgrave, 2023 This book examines career patterns of the professoriate. Professors may appear as specialised individualists in … Continue reading →

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Ian Klinke, Life, Earth, Colony: Friedrich Ratzel’s Necropolitical Geography – University of Michigan Press, August 2023 (print and open access)

Posted on August 27, 2023 by stuartelden

Ian Klinke, Life, Earth, Colony: Friedrich Ratzel’s Necropolitical Geography – University of Michigan Press, August 2023 The book is available in print and open access. Life, Earth, Colony explores the ideas, life, and historical significance of German zoologist turned geographer Friedrich Ratzel … Continue reading →

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Books received – Calvino, Malpas & White, Balibar, Villamizar, González and Astudillo, Saussure, Cheng

Posted on August 26, 2023 by stuartelden

Some books bought or sent recently – Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Jeff Malpas and Kenneth White, The Fundamental Field, Étienne Balibar’s Écrits pour Althusser, Carlos Salamanca Villamizar, Gabriela González and Francisco Astudillo (eds.), Estudios sobre la espacialización … Continue reading →

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Gregory J. Seigworth & Carolyn Pedwell (eds.), The Affect Theory Reader 2 – Duke University Press, October 2023

Posted on August 25, 2023 by stuartelden

Gregory J. Seigworth & Carolyn Pedwell (eds.), The Affect Theory Reader 2 – Duke University Press, October 2023 The Introduction is available open access here. Building on the foundational Affect Theory Reader, this new volume gathers together contemporary scholarship that highlights … Continue reading →

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Stefanos Geroulanos, The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and our Obsession with Human Origins – Liveright, April 2024

Posted on August 24, 2023 by stuartelden

Stefanos Geroulanos, The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and our Obsession with Human Origins – Liveright, April 2024 No publisher page yet, though it is appearing in online bookstores. There is more info about the book and related essays on … Continue reading →

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Mark Carrigan, “Where now for academics on social media, post Twitter?”

Posted on August 23, 2023 by stuartelden

Mark Carrigan, “Where now for academics on social media, post Twitter?“

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James Tyner, Academic Writing for Geographers: A Handbook – De Gruyter, 2023

Posted on August 22, 2023 by stuartelden

James Tyner, Academic Writing for Geographers: A Handbook – De Gruyter, 2023 Expensive hardback and e-book only at this point; paperback coming next year.

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