Monthly Archives: December 2023

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 16: archive work in the UK and working around the British Library disruption

Posted on December 31, 2023 by stuartelden

With the British Library still offline and so largely unusable, and without a trip to Paris this month, I’ve mainly been working at home, though with a few side trips to libraries and archives in the UK. SOAS has a special collections … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2023

Posted on December 31, 2023 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked. The criteria was that they were published in that year, and that I read and liked them. This means that good books which came out … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Claude Lévi-Strauss, David Harvey, Georges Bataille, Karl Marx, Kostas Axelos, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Territory, Uncategorized, urban/urbanisation | 6 Comments

The music of my 2023

Posted on December 30, 2023 by stuartelden

The music I enjoyed most from 2023, either bought in physical form, often through Burning Shed, or digitally through bandcamp: For previous years: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012. I didn’t get to see much music live, and missed a few due to illness, but … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies 35, special issue on Covid – Biopolitical Tensions after Pandemic Times

Posted on December 30, 2023 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies 35, special issue on Covid – Biopolitical Tensions after Pandemic Times

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Peter Sloterdijk, Out of the World – Stanford University Press, May 2024

Posted on December 29, 2023 by stuartelden

Peter Sloterdijk, Out of the World – Stanford University Press, May 2024 In this essential early work, the preeminent European philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary meditation on humanity’s tendency to refuse the world. Developing the first seeds … Continue reading →

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Luke Munn, Technical Territories: Data, Subjects, and Spaces in Infrastructural Asia – University of Michigan Press, 2023

Posted on December 28, 2023 by stuartelden

Luke Munn, Technical Territories: Data, Subjects, and Spaces in Infrastructural Asia – University of Michigan Press, 2023 Territory is shifting. No longer defined by the dotted line of the border or the national footprint of soil, today’s territories are enacted … Continue reading →

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CFP: International Conference on Change, Belgrade, 13-15 June 2024

Posted on December 27, 2023 by stuartelden

CFP: International Conference on Change, Belgrade, 13-15 June 2024 With the confirmed participation of Étienne Balibar, Axel Honneth, and Jonathan Wolff.

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Dave Beer recalls his reading of 2023, with a nice mention of my Foucault work

Posted on December 27, 2023 by stuartelden

Dave Beer recalls his reading of 2023, with a nice mention of my Foucault work.

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Simone Weil, Basic Writings, eds. D.K. Levy and Marina Barabas, Routledge, December 2023

Posted on December 26, 2023 by stuartelden

Simone Weil, Basic Writings, eds. D.K. Levy and Marina Barabas, Routledge, December 2023 Simone Weil is one of the most profound and thought-provoking thinkers of the 20th century. A teacher, factory and farm labourer, a political activist at home and … Continue reading →

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Dawn (Winter 1879/80–Spring 1881) – trans. J.M. Baker, Jr. and Christian Hertel, Stanford University Press, December 2023

Posted on December 25, 2023 by stuartelden

Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Dawn (Winter 1879/80–Spring 1881) – trans. J.M. Baker, Jr. and Christiane Hertel, Stanford University Press, December 2023 This volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsche’s unpublished notes from late 1879 to … Continue reading →

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