Monthly Archives: July 2026

Perry Zurn, Cisgender: Disorienting a Category – Duke University Press, August 2026

Posted on July 10, 2026 by stuartelden

Perry Zurn, Cisgender: Disorienting a Category – Duke University Press, August 2026 Introduction open access at the above link Interview at the Duke University Press blog In Cisgender, Perry Zurn turns an incisive yet playful eye toward the “norm” against which transgender … Continue reading →

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Scott Sundvall, Caddie Alford, Ira J. Allen eds. Rhetoric Before and Beyond Post-Truth – University of Pittsburgh Press, December 2026

Posted on July 9, 2026 by stuartelden

Scott Sundvall, Caddie Alford, Ira J. Allen eds. Rhetoric Before and Beyond Post-Truth – University of Pittsburgh Press, December 2026 Rhetoric has long had a contentious relationship with the idea of truth, and the field of contemporary rhetorical studies has often been skeptical of … Continue reading →

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Frederic Jameson, After Year Zero: On Postwar German Thought – ed. Carson Welch, Verso, September 2026

Posted on July 9, 2026 by stuartelden

Frederic Jameson, After Year Zero: On Postwar German Thought – ed. Carson Welch, Verso, September 2026 Jameson’s Legendary Lectures on German thought, together in one volume for the first time. In this series of accessible lectures, Fredric Jameson explores German philosophy … Continue reading →

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Foucault. Une aventure intellectuelle au Collège de France – exhibition and lectures, 30 September 2026-15 January 2027

Posted on July 8, 2026 by stuartelden

Foucault. Une aventure intellectuelle au Collège de France – 30 September 2026-15 January 2027 L’exposition « Foucault. Une aventure intellectuelle au Collège de France » explore le parcours de Michel Foucault dans l’institution où il enseigna de 1970 à 1984. À l’occasion … Continue reading →

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James Clay Moltz, The Politics of Space Security: Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests – Stanford University Press, fourth edition, June 2026 

Posted on July 8, 2026 by stuartelden

James Clay Moltz, The Politics of Space Security: Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests – Stanford University Press, fourth edition, June 2026  As space becomes more crowded with over 12,000 active satellites operated by over sixty countries and … Continue reading →

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Eduardo A. Escobar, Kiersten Neumann and C. Jay Crisostomo eds. Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and Classification in Cuneiform Cultures – UCL Press, June 2026 (print and open access)

Posted on July 7, 2026 by stuartelden

Eduardo A. Escobar, Kiersten Neumann and C. Jay Crisostomo eds. Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and Classification in Cuneiform Cultures – UCL Press, June 2026 (print and open access) Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and classification in cuneiform cultures delves into the history of the … Continue reading →

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Andrea Brondino, Narrative and History in the Works of Umberto Eco, Carlo Ginzburg, and Wu Ming: Untangling the Strands – Bloomsbury, December 2026

Posted on July 7, 2026 by stuartelden

Andrea Brondino, Narrative and History in the Works of Umberto Eco, Carlo Ginzburg, and Wu Ming: Untangling the Strands – Bloomsbury, December 2026 Using the works of prominent Italian authors of both fiction and nonfiction, this book challenges the established … Continue reading →

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Environments of Planetary Urbanization and Data-Spheres of Planetary Urbanization – two recent books from Neil Brenner’s Urban Theory Lab

Posted on July 6, 2026 by stuartelden

Two recent books from Neil Brenner’s Urban Theory Lab at the University of Chicago. Neil Brenner, Swarnabh Ghosh and Nikos Katsikis, Environments of Planetary Urbanization – Jovis, December 2025 Grga Bašić, Neil Brenner, Mariano Gomez-Luque and Nikos Katsikis, Data-Spheres of … Continue reading →

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Introducing Richard Wilson’s Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers – text of a talk at Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, 27 June 2026

Posted on July 5, 2026 by stuartelden

These are my opening remarks to a roundtable celebrating Richard Wilson’s book Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers: Modern Friends, at an event on Shakespeare and British Inter-war Philosophy (1918-1939) held at Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare on 27 June 2026. A few lines … Continue reading →

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Julie Murray, Mary Wollstonecraft Against Modernity – Stanford University Press, June 2026

Posted on July 4, 2026 by stuartelden

Julie Murray, Mary Wollstonecraft Against Modernity – Stanford University Press, June 2026 For many, Mary Wollstonecraft functions as Western feminism’s indisputable origin point and anchor. Once scorned as scandalous, later rehabilitated by the Victorians as a figure of hardworking traditional … Continue reading →

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