Monthly Archives: April 2025

Todd Meyers, Gone Gone – Duke University Press, March 2025

Posted on April 30, 2025 by stuartelden

Todd Meyers, Gone Gone – Duke University Press, March 2025 In Gone Gone, Todd Meyers reckons with grief in the face of overdose death and with the afterlives of loss created by the opioid crisis. Through conversations with friends, lovers, and … Continue reading →

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Christopher Watkin, The State of Nature and the Shaping of Modernity: Tracing the Roots of Colonialism, Secularity, and Ecology – Cambridge University Press, December 2025

Posted on April 29, 2025 by stuartelden

Christopher Watkin, The State of Nature and the Shaping of Modernity: Tracing the Roots of Colonialism, Secularity, and Ecology – Cambridge University Press, December 2025 The state of nature is a powerful idea at the heart of the fragmented and sometimes … Continue reading →

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Alice Mattoni ed., Handbook of Progressive Politics – Edward Elgar, March 2025

Posted on April 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Alice Mattoni ed., Handbook of Progressive Politics – Edward Elgar, March 2025 In this engaging Handbook, Alice Mattoni brings together an international team of scholars to provide a multifaceted exploration of progressive politics. Contributing authors expertly discuss progressive politics within … Continue reading →

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Andy Merrifield, Roses for Gramsci – Monthly Review Press, April 2025

Posted on April 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield, Roses for Gramsci – Monthly Review Press, April 2025 A remarkable personal journey through the life and writings of the great Sardinian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci In June 2023, author Andy Merrifield and his partner and their daughter moved … Continue reading →

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Émile Benveniste and the Sogdian Word for ‘Knee’

Posted on April 27, 2025 by stuartelden

This was written for an event on ‘Troubling Classical Bodies‘ at the Remarque Institute at New York University on 11 April 2025. My thanks to Stefanos Geroulanos and Brooke Holmes for the invitation to give this short talk, and to … Continue reading →

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Matteo Polleri and Bernard E. Harcourt: A Conversation on Marx and Foucault (video)

Posted on April 26, 2025 by stuartelden

Matteo Polleri and Bernard E. Harcourt: A Conversation on Marx and Foucault (video) Academic debate tends to create conflicts among straw figures. That is certainly what has often happened in the many debates over Karl Marx and Michel Foucault. But … Continue reading →

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Ernst Kantorowicz, Radiances: Unpublished Essays on Gods, Kingship, and Images of the State, ed. Robert E. Lerner – Cornell University Press, July 2025

Posted on April 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Ernst Kantorowicz, Radiances: Unpublished Essays on Gods, Kingship, and Images of the State – ed. Robert E. Lerner, Cornell University Press, July 2025 Radiances gathers previously unpublished essays by one of the greatest historians of the twentieth century. Although best known for The … Continue reading →

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Jacques Derrida, Psychanalyse et critique littéraire (1969-1970) – Seuil, April 2025

Posted on April 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Psychanalyse et critique littéraire (1969-1970) – Seuil, April 2025 Thanks to John Raimo for the link Durant l’année universitaire 1969-1970, Jacques Derrida consacre un séminaire au problème des rapports entre la psychanalyse et la critique littéraire. Ce séminaire, … Continue reading →

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Richard III or Edward III? A small historical error in Foucault’s History of Madness – and his attempt to correct it

Posted on April 24, 2025 by stuartelden

There is a small historical error in Foucault’s History of Madness, which endures through the different French versions with the exception of Oeuvres, but which is corrected in one of the English versions. Yes, there are other errors, but I’m focused on … Continue reading →

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Andrew Leyshon and Allan Watson, The Rise of the Platform Music Industries – Agenda, June 2025

Posted on April 24, 2025 by stuartelden

Andrew Leyshon and Allan Watson, The Rise of the Platform Music Industries – Agenda, June 2025 The music industry is being reshaped by a fresh round of platform intermediation – one based on MusicTech, social media platforms and user-generated content, … Continue reading →

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