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Nicolaas Buitendag, States of exclusion: A critical systems theory reading of international law – Aosis, 2023 (print and open access e-book)

Posted on March 24, 2023 by stuartelden

Nicolaas Buitendag, States of exclusion: A critical systems theory reading of international law – Aosis, 2023 (print and open access e-book) The theoretical underpinnings of public international law have taken the sovereign status of the nation-state for granted since the … Continue reading →

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Julian Roche, Marxism and Real Estate: Taking Lefebvre Seriously – Routledge, September 2023

Posted on March 24, 2023 by stuartelden

Julian Roche, Marxism and Real Estate: Taking Lefebvre Seriously – Routledge, September 2023 Intriguing, but a truly ridiculous price of £140! This book straddles two worlds and attempts to bring them together: that of Lefebvre’s Marxism on the one hand, and … Continue reading →

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Walter Benjamin’s translators on translating Walter Benjamin

Posted on March 23, 2023 by stuartelden

Esther Leslie, Sam Dolbear, Sebastian Truskolaski on Translating Walter Benjamin In 1923 Walter Benjamin published The Task of the Translator, a seminal essay in which he considers what is obscured and what is elucidated through the process of literary translation. The … Continue reading →

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty, new series of Inédits – Éditions Mimesis, Vols I and II

Posted on March 23, 2023 by stuartelden

Interesting to see a new series of Maurice Merleau-Ponty texts in progress, Inédits. I’ve seen two volumes so far, and I can’t find information on further volumes planned. At 42 euros each volume this might become expensive: Volume I Cet … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, What is Critique? & The Culture of the Self (2023)

Posted on March 23, 2023 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michel Foucault, What is Critique? & The Culture of the Self Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini. Introduction and critical apparatus by Daniele Lorenzini & Arnold I. Davidson Translated by Clare O’Farrell, The University…

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Georges Bataille, The Limit of the Useful, translated by Cory Knutson and Thomas Elliott – MIT Press, February 2023 (and interview with translators)

Posted on March 19, 2023 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Georges Bataille, The Limit of the Useful, translated by Cory Knutson and Thomas Elliott – MIT Press, February 2023 Update: now published; there is an interview with the translators at the Acid Horizon podcast. Forthcoming…

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Roland Barthes, Évocations et incantations dans la tragédie grecque – Classiques Garnier, eds. Christophe Corbier and Coste Claude, February 2023

Posted on March 19, 2023 by stuartelden

Roland Barthes, Évocations et incantations dans la tragédie grecque – Classiques Garnier, edited by Christophe Corbier and Coste Claude, February 2023 En 1941, Roland Barthes soutient son diplôme d’études supérieures à la Sorbonne sous la direction de Paul Mazon. Le … Continue reading →

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Karen Culcasi, Displacing Territory: Syrian and Palestinian Refugees in Jordan – University of Chicago Press, September 2023

Posted on March 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Karen Culcasi, Displacing Territory: Syrian and Palestinian Refugees in Jordan – University of Chicago Press, September 2023 Based on fieldwork with Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Jordan, Displacing Territory explores how the lived realities of refugees are deeply affected by their imaginings … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault THE PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE (1) Table of Contents

Posted on March 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AGENT SWARM:
Publication of an unpublished book manuscript by Michel Foucault: PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE. Text established by Daniele Lorenzini and Orazio Irrera, under the direction of François Ewald – to be published by Gallimard/Seuil/EHESS, in May 2023 The…

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David Myer Temin, Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought – University of Chicago Press, August 2023

Posted on March 9, 2023 by stuartelden

David Myer Temin, Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought – University of Chicago Press, August 2023 An examination of anticolonial thought and practice across key Indigenous thinkers. Accounts of decolonization routinely neglect Indigenous societies, yet … Continue reading →

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