Monthly Archives: September 2024

Yuk Hui, Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking – University of Minnesota Press, October 2024

Posted on September 12, 2024 by stuartelden

Yuk Hui, Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking – University of Minnesota Press, October 2024 Developing a new political thought to address today’s planetary crises What is “planetary thinking” today? Arguing that a new approach is urgently needed, Yuk … Continue reading →

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Nitzan Itzhak Lebovic, Homo Temporalis: German Jewish Thinkers on Time – Cornell University Press, January 2025

Posted on September 11, 2024 by stuartelden

Nitzan Itzhak Lebovic, Homo Temporalis: German Jewish Thinkers on Time – Cornell University Press, January 2025 thanks to John Raimo for this link Homo Temporalis focuses on the importance of temporal concepts for four German Jewish thinkers who profoundly shaped twentieth-century … Continue reading →

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The Regime of Capital: An Interview with Paul North and Paul Reitter on the new edition of Karl Marx’s Capital, Vol. 1 – Journal of the History of Ideas blog; Wendy Brown’s foreword

Posted on September 11, 2024 by stuartelden

The Regime of Capital: An Interview with Paul North and Paul Reitter on the new edition of Karl Marx’s Capital, Vol. 1 – Journal of the History of Ideas blog Details of the new translation from Princeton University Press are … Continue reading →

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Giorgio Agamben, Self-Portrait in the Studio – The Paris Review, August 2024; an excerpt from the forthcoming book with Seagull

Posted on September 10, 2024 by stuartelden

Giorgio Agamben, Self-Portrait in the Studio – The Paris Review, August 2024 A form of life that keeps itself in relation to a poetic practice, however that might be, is always in the studio, always in its studio. Its—but in … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 23: Emile Benveniste and Georges Dumézil at the Collège de France, and an article on Alexandre Koyré

Posted on September 9, 2024 by stuartelden

The chapter I’m currently working on for the Mapping Indo-European Thought project is a study of the two decades Benveniste and Dumézil were teaching in parallel at the Collège de France. I’ve been concentrating on Dumézil so far, but I plan to … Continue reading →

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David Matless, England’s Green: Nature and Culture since the 1960s – University of Chicago Press, August 2024

Posted on September 8, 2024 by stuartelden

David Matless, England’s Green: Nature and Culture since the 1960s – University of Chicago Press, August 2024 A sweeping history of how ecological challenges have shaped English society over the last sixty years. England’s Green explores how environmental concerns have shaped and … Continue reading →

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K. Maria D. Lane, Fluid Geographies: Water, Science, and Settler Colonialism in New Mexico – University of Chicago Press, July 2024

Posted on September 7, 2024 by stuartelden

K. Maria D. Lane, Fluid Geographies: Water, Science, and Settler Colonialism in New Mexico – University of Chicago Press, July 2024 An unprecedented analysis of the origin story of New Mexico’s modern water management system. Maria Lane’s Fluid Geographies traces New Mexico’s transition … Continue reading →

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“A Different Open Access Model for Journals”, Daily Nous; David Murakami Wood “radical open access [journals] in the Social Sciences”

Posted on September 6, 2024 by stuartelden

“A Different Open Access Model for Journals“, Daily Nous Recent discussion of open-access journals and their financing prompted a reader to share information about a different model for publishers and journals converting to open-access, known as “subscribe-to-open”. This model isn’t … Continue reading →

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Debbie Hall, Adventures in Maps – Bodleian Library Publishing, July 2024

Posted on September 6, 2024 by stuartelden

Debbie Hall, Adventures in Maps – Bodleian Library Publishing, July 2024 A richly illustrated collection that maps twenty historical journeys. Adventures in Maps features twenty awe-inspiring journeys, ranging in distances from a few miles to great treks across land, sea, air, … Continue reading →

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Books received – Koyré, Meillet, Rose, Barry, Moyn

Posted on September 5, 2024 by stuartelden

Some recently bought second-hand books, including Gillian Rose’s The Broken Middle, James Barry, Measures of Science, and Samuel Moyn, Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics. Top of the pile is a first edition of Alexandre Koyré’s … Continue reading →

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