Monthly Archives: October 2026

Thomas Jones and Toril Moi, How Frederic Jameson became Frederic Jameson – LRB Podcast

Posted on October 23, 2026 by stuartelden

Thomas Jones and Toril Moi, How Frederic Jameson became Frederic Jameson – LRB Podcast The podcast is free to access; the links below require subscription. Thanks to dmf for the link. Perry Anderson once wrote that in Fredric Jameson’s account … Continue reading →

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Alejandra Mancilla, From Sovereignty to Guardianship: Governing Antarctica, Governing the World – Oxford University Press, June 2026 (print and open access) and ABC News discussion

Posted on October 23, 2026 by stuartelden

Alejandra Mancilla, From Sovereignty to Guardianship: Governing Antarctica, Governing the World – Oxford University Press, June 2026 (print and open access) ABC News discussion with David Rutledge Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, driest, and highest continent in the world, so … Continue reading →

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Mélanie Lamotte, By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire – Harvard University Press, January 2026 and New Books discussion

Posted on October 22, 2026 by stuartelden

Mélanie Lamotte, By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire – Harvard University Press, January 2026 New Books discussion with Edward Blum From the beginning of the seventeenth century, French colonies and trading posts … Continue reading →

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Stuart Hall Digital: Mediations of the Stuart Hall Archive

Posted on October 21, 2026 by stuartelden

Stuart Hall Digital: Mediations of the Stuart Hall Archive A huge amount of material from the Stuart Hall archives has been digitised. This website hosts collections of materials digitised from Stuart Hall’s personal archive, many of which are now available to … Continue reading →

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Leonhard Emmerling, The Idiots: The History of the Homo Nullius – trans. Parnal Chirmuley, Seagull, 2026 and New Books discussion

Posted on October 21, 2026 by stuartelden

Leonhard Emmerling, The Idiots: The History of the Homo Nullius – trans. Parnal Chirmuley, Seagull, 2026 New Books discussion with Morteza Hajizadeh – thanks to dmf for the link In a world obsessed with expertise and control, the figure of … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, La Place de l’homme dans la pensée occidentale moderne: Cours de Tunis (1966-1967) – Seuil/Gallimard/EHESS, November 2026

Posted on October 20, 2026 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, La Place de l’homme dans la pensée occidentale moderne: Cours de Tunis (1966-1967) – eds. Daniele Lorenzini and Orazio Irrera, Seuil/Gallimard/EHESS, November 2026 En 1966-1967, première année de son enseignement à l’université de Tunis, Michel Foucault consacre un … Continue reading →

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Mark Carrigan, The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal – University of Manchester, September 2026 (open access)

Posted on October 20, 2026 by stuartelden

Mark Carrigan, The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal – University of Manchester, September 2026 (open access) Language models have become ubiquitous in universities without being normalised. Mark Carrigan argues this has produced a multidimensional crisis of trust, … Continue reading →

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More links for the Foucault centenary

Posted on October 19, 2026 by stuartelden

On Foucault’s 100th birthday I shared some of the publications timed to coincide with the anniversary – The Foucault Centenary. Here are a few more: Michel Foucault Centennial at Duke University Press (via Foucault News) – includes Lynne Huffer’s remarkable … Continue reading →

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Daniel J. McKaughan and Holly VandeWall eds. The History and Philosophy of Western Science – three volumes, Bloomsbury, November 2026

Posted on October 19, 2026 by stuartelden

Daniel J. McKaughan and Holly VandeWall eds. The History and Philosophy of Western Science: From Antiquity to the 19th Century – three volumes, Bloomsbury, November 2026 How did we learn how to learn about the natural world? Across a set … Continue reading →

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The Friendship between Hannah Arendt, Alexandre Koyré and Horace Kallen

Posted on October 18, 2026 by stuartelden

I’ve written before about the friendship between Hannah Arendt and Alexandre Koyré, and a little about different aspects of Arendt and Koyré’s careers. Koyré’s letters to Arendt have been published by Paola Zambelli, but Arendt’s to Koyré are presumed lost. Both … Continue reading →

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