Monthly Archives: June 2025

Thomas Nail, The Philosophy of Virginia Woolf: Moments of Becoming – Bloomsbury, May 2025 

Posted on June 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Thomas Nail, The Philosophy of Virginia Woolf: Moments of Becoming – Bloomsbury, May 2025  Towards the end of her life, Virginia Woolf defined her “philosophy”-the “constant idea” that “makes her a writer.” She wrote that this idea had given her … Continue reading →

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Space Syntax: Selected Papers by Bill Hillier, eds. Laura Vaughan, John Peponis and Ruth Dalton – UCL Press, April 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on June 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Space Syntax: Selected Papers by Bill Hillier, eds. Laura Vaughan, John Peponis and Ruth Dalton – UCL Press, April 2025 (print and open access) Professor Bill Hillier spent most of his career at The Bartlett, University College London, where he founded … Continue reading →

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Roman Jakobson, Franz Boas, and the Paleo-Siberian and Aleutian material at the New York Public Library

Posted on June 1, 2025 by stuartelden

The support for refugee scholars to come to the United States of America in the 1930s and 1940s is well known. Varian Fry famously helped several hundred European artists and intellectuals to flee Vichy France between 1940 and 1941. The … Continue reading →

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