Monthly Archives: January 2025

Julia Jorati, Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates… – Oxford University Press, 2023 and 2024 and NDPR review

Posted on January 9, 2025 by stuartelden

Julia Jorati, Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Eighteenth Century – Oxford University Press, November 2023 review by Peter K. J. Park at NDPR Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported to the Americas in the eighteenth century. Europeans–many … Continue reading →

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Ian G. Baird, Champassak Royalty and Sovereignty: Within and between Nation-States in Mainland Southeast Asia – University of Wisconsin Press, December 2024

Posted on January 8, 2025 by stuartelden

Ian G. Baird, Champassak Royalty and Sovereignty: Within and between Nation-States in Mainland Southeast Asia – University of Wisconsin Press, December 2024 The Kingdom of Champassak was founded in 1713 in what is now southern Laos, and its royal lineage, the … Continue reading →

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Derek S. Denman, Fortress Power: Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control – University of Minnesota Press, July 2025

Posted on January 8, 2025 by stuartelden

Derek S. Denman, Fortress Power: Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control – University of Minnesota Press, July 2025 A compelling treatise on the relationship between power and enclosure Fortress Power presents a genealogy of fortification as a material and … Continue reading →

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Lynne Huffer, “Order and Archive: A Foucault Abecedary”, boundary 2, 2024 and Instagram tiles

Posted on January 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Lynne Huffer’s extraordinary essay, “Order and Archive: A Foucault Abecedary“, boundary 2, Vol 51 No 4, 2024 (requires subscription unfortunately). Lynne is now on Instagram and has posted several tiles relating to this essay. It’s a review article of my … Continue reading →

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Rob Kitchin, Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods – Polity, December 2024

Posted on January 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Rob Kitchin, Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods – Polity, December 2024 Critical Data Studies has come of age as a vibrant, interdisciplinary field of study. Taking data as its primary analytical focus, the … Continue reading →

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Chris L. Smith, Architecture After Deleuze and Guattari – Bloomsbury, December 2024

Posted on January 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Chris L. Smith, Architecture After Deleuze and Guattari – Bloomsbury, December 2024 This study illuminates the complex interplay between Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy and architecture. Presenting their wide-ranging impact on late 20th- and 21st-century architecture, each chapter focuses on a core … Continue reading →

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Adam Zucker, Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity – Oxford University Press, 2024 and New Books discussion with Pamela Brown

Posted on January 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Adam Zucker, Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity – Oxford University Press, 2024 New Books discussion with Pamela Brown – thanks to dmf for the link Shakespeare Unlearned dances along the borderline of sense and nonsense in early … Continue reading →

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Elyse Graham, Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II – HarperCollins, September 2024

Posted on January 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Elyse Graham, Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II – HarperCollins, September 2024 The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the … Continue reading →

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Benveniste, Dumézil, Lejeune and the decipherment of Linear B

Posted on January 5, 2025 by stuartelden

In April 1956, at Gif-sur-Yvette just outside of Paris, the first meeting of the International Colloquium on Mycenaean texts took place. The proceedings of the conference, edited by Michel Lejeune, were published later that year as Études mycéniennes: Actes du Colloque international sur … Continue reading →

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Books received – Grant, Littleton, François, Bowd & Clayton, Nobus, Ariès, Linear B and the Prague Linguistic Circle

Posted on January 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Some books received in recompense for review work… … and some second-hand ones – a couple by Philippe Ariès, some about the decipherment of Linear B, and about the Prague Linguistic Circle. Most of these relate in some way to … Continue reading →

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