Monthly Archives: July 2024

Sami Moisio and Ugo Rossi, The Urban Field: Capital and Governmentality in the Age of Techno-Monopoly – Agenda, July 2024

Posted on July 15, 2024 by stuartelden

Sami Moisio and Ugo Rossi, The Urban Field: Capital and Governmentality in the Age of Techno-Monopoly – Agenda, July 2024 We live in an era of techno-monopoly power in which technocapitalism – through ubiquitous digital platforms – has colonized both the internet … Continue reading →

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Joseph Acquisto, Thought as Experience in Bataille, Cioran, and Rosset – Bloomsbury, July 2024

Posted on July 14, 2024 by stuartelden

Joseph Acquisto, Thought as Experience in Bataille, Cioran, and Rosset – Bloomsbury, July 2024 Examines how postwar French writers constitute the thinking subject and reshape its relation to the external social world.Joseph Acquisto analyzes the writings of three thinkers during … Continue reading →

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Academic Irregularities: Open Access for books – an open or closed case?

Posted on July 13, 2024 by stuartelden

Another useful contribution to the debate from Liz Morrish at Academic Irregularities.

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Jasmine Cooper, Lili Owen Rowlands and Katie Pleming (eds.), Rage: Affect and Resistance in French and Francophone Culture and Thought, 1968–2020 – Peter Lang, June 2024

Posted on July 13, 2024 by stuartelden

Jasmine Cooper, Lili Owen Rowlands and Katie Pleming (eds.), Rage: Affect and Resistance in French and Francophone Culture and Thought, 1968–2020 – Peter Lang, June 2024 This volume explores the political life of rage as it has been experienced and mobilized … Continue reading →

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Vanessa Christina Wills, Marx’s Ethical Vision – Oxford University Press, July 2024

Posted on July 12, 2024 by stuartelden

Vanessa Christina Wills, Marx’s Ethical Vision – Oxford University Press, July 2024 “The communists do not preach morality at all”; this line from The Communist Manifesto might seem to settle the question of whether Marxism has anything to offer moral philosophy. … Continue reading →

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Gillian Rose, Love’s Work – Penguin reissue and discussion

Posted on July 11, 2024 by stuartelden

Gillian Rose’s classic book, Love’s Work was reissued by Penguin earlier this year. There was a discussion of the book and her work generally at the London Review Bookshop with James Butler, Rebekah Howes and Rowan Williams – available here. … Continue reading →

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Marco Bresciani, Learning from the Enemy: An intellectual History of Antifascism in Interwar Europe – Verso, June 2024

Posted on July 11, 2024 by stuartelden

Marco Bresciani, Learning from the Enemy: An Intellectual History of Antifascism in Interwar Europe – Verso, June 2024 The first comprehensive history of Italian revolutionary group Giustizia e Libertà When democracy is under threat from authoritarianism, models of resistance must come to … Continue reading →

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Corey Ross, Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World – Princeton University Press, July 2024

Posted on July 10, 2024 by stuartelden

Corey Ross, Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World – Princeton University Press, July 2024 In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a handful of powerful European states controlled more than a third of the land surface of the planet. … Continue reading →

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Fredric Jameson, Inventions of a Present – Verso, May 2024

Posted on July 9, 2024 by stuartelden

Fredric Jameson, Inventions of A Present: The Novel in its Crisis of Globalisation, Verso, May 2024 – now published The giant of literary theory analyses the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Marquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and more … Continue reading →

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Susan Slyomovics, Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage – Stanford University Press, July 2024

Posted on July 8, 2024 by stuartelden

Susan Slyomovics, Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage – Stanford University Press, July 2024 Introduction open access at the Stanford UP site; 20% discount code currently at http://www.sup.org with SLYOMOVICS20 (July 2024) “Statuomania” overtook Algeria beginning in the nineteenth century … Continue reading →

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