Monthly Archives: May 2026

Trevor Paglen, How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI – Verso, May 2026

Posted on May 23, 2026 by stuartelden

Trevor Paglen, How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI – Verso, May 2026 We once looked at pictures. Then, with the advent of computer vision and machine learning, pictures started looking at us. By the award-winning artist, filmmaker … Continue reading →

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Audio recording of Foucault’s interview with Charles Ruas about Raymond Roussel now online

Posted on May 22, 2026 by stuartelden

The audio recording of Foucault’s interview with Charles Ruas about Raymond Roussel is now online. Foucault did this interview late in life, about one of his least-known books, translated into English as Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond … Continue reading →

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Daniel Maudlin, A Night at the Inn: Space, Place, and the Elite Experience of Empire, 1650–1850 – Oxford University Press, June 2026

Posted on May 22, 2026 by stuartelden

Daniel Maudlin, A Night at the Inn: Space, Place, and the Elite Experience of Empire, 1650–1850 – Oxford University Press, June 2026 A bold reinterpretation of Georgian Britian and North America that puts inns at the heart of the imperial project. … Continue reading →

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Eli B. Lichtenstein, Partisan Genealogy: Foucault’s Critique of Penal Power – SUNY Press, November 2026

Posted on May 21, 2026 by stuartelden

Eli B. Lichtenstein, Partisan Genealogy: Foucault’s Critique of Penal Power – SUNY Press, November 2026 Just a very expensive hardback listed at the moment, unfortunately. Presents a partisan model of genealogy by reinterpreting Foucault in the context of anti-prison struggles … Continue reading →

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Edward Jones-Imhotep, The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self – MIT Press, May 2026 (print and open access)

Posted on May 20, 2026 by stuartelden

Edward Jones-Imhotep, The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self – MIT Press, May 2026 (print and open access) A cultural history of technological breakdown, social order, and the self in the modern Atlantic World. The Broken … Continue reading →

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Marco Brigaglia, Foucault on Power, Law, and Society: A Reappraisal – Routledge, 2026

Posted on May 20, 2026 by stuartelden

Marco Brigaglia, Foucault on Power, Law, and Society: A Reappraisal – Routledge, February 2026 Thanks to Foucault News for the link This book offers a detailed analysis and reappraisal of Michel Foucault’s work on power, law, and society. Highlighting the ambiguities, … Continue reading →

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Books received – Pateman, Hubert, Droit, Derrida, Sharpe, Heidegger

Posted on May 19, 2026 by stuartelden

Trevor Pateman’s Culture as Anarchy; Henri Hubert’s Les Germains; the collection Les Grecs, les Romains et nous, edited by Roger Pol Droit; Derrida’s De la grammatologie; Alex Sharpe’s We’re Nobody’s Children: David Bowie and Existentialism and Heidegger’s Being and Time: An … Continue reading →

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Erin Torkelson, Predatory Welfare: Debt, Race, and Cash Transfers – Duke University Press, May 2026

Posted on May 19, 2026 by stuartelden

Erin Torkelson, Predatory Welfare: Debt, Race, and Cash Transfers – Duke University Press, May 2026 In Predatory Welfare, Erin Torkelson explores how the direct cash transfer program instituted in South Africa revised and reworked post-apartheid racialized and gendered dispossession, despite its … Continue reading →

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Peter Johnson, Philosophy for a Time of Crisis: Michel Serres and Climate Change – independently published, January 2026 (ebook free for limited time)

Posted on May 18, 2026 by stuartelden

Peter Johnson, Philosophy for a Time of Crisis: Michel Serres and Climate Change – independently published, January 2026 The ebook is free on Amazon from 18 May to 22 May 2026

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Leslie C. Dunn and Avi Mendelson eds. Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness – Springer, May 2026

Posted on May 18, 2026 by stuartelden

Leslie C. Dunn and Avi Mendelson eds. Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness – Springer, May 2026 Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness, the first collection to focus on madness and mental health in early modern drama, is energized by the belief … Continue reading →

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