Monthly Archives: October 2024

Nick Couldry, The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can’t? – Polity, October 2024

Posted on October 31, 2024 by stuartelden

Nick Couldry, The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can’t? – Polity, October 2024 update: thanks to dmf for a link to a Cultural Studies podcast discussion of the book Over the … Continue reading →

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CFP: Foucault Studies special issue – Critique beyond criticism: Crisis and potentials of critique in critical times

Posted on October 30, 2024 by stuartelden
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Christine Sypnowich, G. A. Cohen: Liberty, Justice and Equality – Polity, July 2024

Posted on October 30, 2024 by stuartelden

Christine Sypnowich, G. A. Cohen: Liberty, Justice and Equality – Polity, July 2024 Part of the Key Contemporary Thinkers series G. A. Cohen was one of the towering political philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His intellectual … Continue reading →

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Theory, Culture & Society special issue ‘Thinking with Latour’ – three papers open access

Posted on October 29, 2024 by stuartelden

Theory, Culture & Society special issue ‘Thinking with Latour‘ – three papers open access. Update: Thanks to dmf and others for the link to Steven Shapin’s piece at Journal of the History of Ideas blog

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On a Discourse that Might not Be a Semblance: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XVIII, trans. Bruce Fink – Polity, October 2024

Posted on October 28, 2024 by stuartelden

On a Discourse that Might not Be a Semblance: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XVIII, trans. Bruce Fink – Polity, October 2024 The title is, at first glance, enigmatic. Clue: it concerns men and women—their most concrete, amorous, and … Continue reading →

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Jacques Lacan, First Writings, trans. Russell Grigg – Polity, October 2024

Posted on October 28, 2024 by stuartelden

Jacques Lacan, First Writings, trans. Russell Grigg – Polity, October 2024 Before he became an analyst, Lacan was a psychiatrist. The articles in the present volume would not be being republished if they didn’t invite us to read them retroactively. … Continue reading →

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Kevin Curran, Shakespeare’s Theater of Judgment: Six Keywords – Edinburgh University Press, September 2024 (print and open access)

Posted on October 27, 2024 by stuartelden

Kevin Curran, Shakespeare’s Theater of Judgment: Six Keywords – Edinburgh University Press, September 2024 Available open access at the above link Part of the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy series.

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Virginia Mantouvalou and Jonathan Wolff (eds.), Structural Injustice and the Law – UCL Press, October 2024 (open access)

Posted on October 26, 2024 by stuartelden

Virginia Mantouvalou and Jonathan Wolff (eds.), Structural Injustice and the Law – UCL Press, open access, October 2024 In developing her conception of structural injustice, Iris Marion Young made a strict distinction between large-scale collective injustice that results from the … Continue reading →

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Michael Hughes, Feliks Volkhovskii: A Revolutionary Life – Open Book, 2024 (open access)

Posted on October 25, 2024 by stuartelden

Michael Hughes, Feliks Volkhovskii: A Revolutionary Life – Open Book, now published and available open access as pdf Feliks Volkhovskii (1846-1914) was a significant figure in the Russian revolutionary movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He lived through pivotal … Continue reading →

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James Martell, Beckett and Derrida – Cambridge University Press, December 2024

Posted on October 25, 2024 by stuartelden

James Martell, Beckett and Derrida – Cambridge University Press, December 2024 Uncannily similar projects, Beckett’s and Derrida’s oeuvres have been linked by literary and philosophy scholars since the 1990s. Taking into consideration their shared historical and personal contexts as writers … Continue reading →

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