Monthly Archives: July 2026

Ann Blair, In the Scholar’s Workshop: Hidden Histories of Collaboration and Authorship – Princeton University Press, July/September 2026

Posted on July 17, 2026 by stuartelden

Ann Blair, In the Scholar’s Workshop: Hidden Histories of Collaboration and Authorship – Princeton University Press, July/September 2026 For centuries, many of the world’s most influential thinkers routinely relied on helpers who performed tasks such as taking dictation, correcting, indexing, … Continue reading →

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Roopika Risam, Data Empire: How Information Shaped Human History – Torva, July 2026

Posted on July 16, 2026 by stuartelden

Roopika Risam, Data Empire: How Information Shaped Human History – Torva, July 2026 We live in an era when trading our information for access can feel harmless or inevitable – yet from targeted advertising to mass surveillance, data shapes the course … Continue reading →

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Ali Fard, Grounding the Cloud: Urbanism in the Shadow of Data – University of Minnesota Press, June 2026 and New Books discussion

Posted on July 15, 2026 by stuartelden

Ali Fard, Grounding the Cloud: Urbanism in the Shadow of Data – University of Minnesota Press, June 2026 New Books discussion with Miranda Melcher – thanks to dmf for the link A detailed foray into the material and spatial realities … Continue reading →

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Pascale Drouet, Shakespeare and the Denial of Territory: Banishment, Abuse of Power and Strategies of Resistance – Manchester University Press, November 2021

Posted on July 14, 2026 by stuartelden

Pascale Drouet, Shakespeare and the Denial of Territory: Banishment, Abuse of Power and Strategies of Resistance – Manchester University Press, November 2021 I’m slow to notice this one, but looks interesting. My own Shakespearean Territories discusses related issues. This book … Continue reading →

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Mathieu Quet, Koichi Kameda, Jessica Pourraz and Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar eds. Technoscientific Globalisation from Below – Mattering Press, September 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on July 14, 2026 by stuartelden

Mathieu Quet, Koichi Kameda, Jessica Pourraz and Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar eds. Technoscientific Globalisation from Below – Mattering Press, September 2025 (print and open access) Thanks to dmf for the link. Across eleven varied and lively chapters, Technoscientific Globalisation from Below provides fresh perspectives … Continue reading →

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Some more of the many tributes to Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026)

Posted on July 13, 2026 by stuartelden

There are too many to try to be comprehensive, but here are a few of the tributes and reposts of older material celebrating the life and career of the remarkable historian Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026), some added since I first posted … Continue reading →

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D.J.S. Cross ed. Deleuze and Affect – Edinburgh University Press, June 2026

Posted on July 13, 2026 by stuartelden

D.J.S. Cross ed. Deleuze and Affect – Edinburgh University Press, June 2026

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The Stockholm Appeal against Atomic weapons – Émile Benveniste, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Jean Boulier and Cold War Politics

Posted on July 12, 2026 by stuartelden

Émile Benveniste was one of the signatories of the Stockholm appeal on 19 March 1950, against nuclear weapons. The short text of the appeal reads:  We demand the outlawing of atomic weapons as instruments of intimidation and mass murder of … Continue reading →

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Susana Caló & Godofredo Enes Pereira, CERFI – Analysis Everywhere. Militancy, Research, Architecture and Psychiatry – Minor Compositions, May 2026 (print and open access)

Posted on July 11, 2026 by stuartelden

Susana Caló & Godofredo Enes Pereira, CERFI – Analysis Everywhere. Militancy, Research, Architecture and Psychiatry – Minor Compositions, May 2026 Between the radical energies of the 1960s and the shifting terrains of the 1980s, a group in France quietly detonated … Continue reading →

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Georgina Lucas, Massacres in Early Modern Drama – Manchester University Press, May 2026

Posted on July 11, 2026 by stuartelden

Georgina Lucas, Massacres in Early Modern Drama – Manchester University Press, May 2026 Massacres in Early Modern Drama analyses the dynamically ambivalent meanings constructed by the language and action of massacre on the early modern stage. Informed by theories drawn … Continue reading →

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