Monthly Archives: February 2024

David Beer, The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking: Automation, Intelligence and the Politics of Knowing – Bristol University Press, November 2022, paperback February 2024

Posted on February 19, 2024 by stuartelden

David Beer, The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking: Automation, Intelligence and the Politics of Knowing – Bristol University Press, November 2022, paperback February 2024 The paperback is now published. We are living in algorithmic times.  From machine learning and artificial intelligence … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, ed. Bernard Harcourt – Seuil/Gallimard/EHESS, May 2024

Posted on February 18, 2024 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, ed. Bernard Harcourt – Seuil/Gallimard/EHESS, May 2024 This is starting to appear in online bookshops (i.e. Decitre), but I can’t yet find a publisher page. It’s the next volume in the collection of Foucault’s … Continue reading →

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Andy Merrifield, Gramsci’s Goblin – on the notebooks and his translations of the Brothers Grimm fairytales

Posted on February 17, 2024 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield, Gramsci’s Goblin It’s easy to miss the Fondazione Gramsci, tucked away off the street in a little building along via Sebino, at number 43A, in Rome’s Trieste neighborhood. Its glass door entrance lies at the end of a … Continue reading →

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Simone Weil, The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards the Human Being – Penguin, February 2024

Posted on February 16, 2024 by stuartelden

Simone Weil, The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards the Human Being – trans. Ros Schwartz, introduction by Kate Kirkpatrick, Penguin, February 2024 French philosopher Simone Weil’s best known work that promotes mindful living and instructs … Continue reading →

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Gail Lythgoe, The Rebirth of Territory – Cambridge University Press, March 2024

Posted on February 15, 2024 by stuartelden

Gail Lythgoe, The Rebirth of Territory – Cambridge University Press, March 2024 The concept of territory is central in international law, but a detailed analysis of how the concept is used in both discourse and practice has been lacking until … Continue reading →

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Jacob Blumenfeld, The Concept of Property in Kant, Fichte, and Hegel: Freedom, Right, and Recognition – Routledge, December 2023

Posted on February 14, 2024 by stuartelden

Jacob Blumenfeld, The Concept of Property in Kant, Fichte, and Hegel: Freedom, Right, and Recognition – Routledge, December 2023 This book provides a detailed account of the role of property in German Idealism. It puts the concept of property in the … Continue reading →

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Timothy Raeymaekers, The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean – Cornell University Press, February 2024

Posted on February 13, 2024 by stuartelden

Timothy Raeymaekers, The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean – Cornell University Press, February 2024 There is a bit more information on the author’s website. The Natural Border tells the recent history of Mediterranean rural capitalism from the … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 17: Contextualising Benveniste

Posted on February 12, 2024 by stuartelden

In my chapter on Émile Benveniste from roughly 1934 to 1949, I’ve been finding all sorts of interesting things to explore. Looking for some of Benveniste’s early publications in the Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris led me to do … Continue reading →

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Julia Caterina Hartley, Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France – I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, December 2023

Posted on February 11, 2024 by stuartelden

Julia Caterina Hartley, Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France – I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, December 2023 New translations of Persian literature into French, the invention of the Aryan myth, increased travel between France and Iran, and the … Continue reading →

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Fredric Jameson, Inventions of a Present – Verso, May 2024 and Mimesis, Expression, Construction: Fredric Jameson’s Seminar on Aesthetic Theory, ed. Octavian Esanu – Repeater, 2024

Posted on February 10, 2024 by stuartelden

As if the book The Years of Theory I posted about earlier this week wasn’t enough, two more works by Fredric Jameson this year… Inventions of A Present: The Novel in its Crisis of Globalisation, Verso, May 2024 [updated to … Continue reading →

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