Author Archives: stuartelden

Rok Benčin, Rethinking the Concept of World: Towards Transcendental Multiplicity – Edinburgh University Press, print and open access, January 2024

Domenico Losurdo, Democracy or Bonapartism: Two Centuries of War on Democracy – trans. David Broder, Verso, April 2024 The history of universal suffrage is best understood as a conflict between liberal elites and democractic workers’ movements, according to Domenico Losurdo. … Continue reading →

Kathryn Yusoff, Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race – Duke University Press, May 2024 The Introduction is open access In Geologic Life, Kathryn Yusoff theorizes the processes by which race and racialization emerged geologically. Examining both the history … Continue reading →

Henri Bergson, Freedom: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1904–1905 – edited by Nils F. Schott and Alexandre Lefebvre, translated by Leonard Lawlor, Bloomsbury, May 2024

Jonas Roelens, Citizens and Sodomites: Persecution and Perception of Sodomy in the Southern Low Countries (1400–1700) – Brill, February 2024 The Southern Low Countries were among Europe’s core regions for the repression of sodomy during the late medieval period. As the … Continue reading →

Robert T. Tally Jr., The Fiction of Dread: Dystopia, Monstrosity, and Apocalypse – Bloomsbury Academic, December 2023 A history and examination of dystopia and angst in popular culture that speaks to our current climate of dread.At the dawn of the … Continue reading →

Arang Keshavarzian, Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East – Stanford University Press, April 2024 The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space—an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The roots … Continue reading →

William Carruthers, Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia and the Recolonization of Archaeology – Cornell University Press, December 2022 I missed this when it came out, but looks interesting Flooded Pasts examines a world famous yet critically underexamined event—UNESCO’s International Campaign to Save … Continue reading →

British library – February 2024 update ‘Restoring our Services‘