Author Archives: stuartelden

Cristina Vatulescu, Reading the Archival Revolution: Declassified Stories and their Challenges – Stanford University Press, November 2024

Posted on November 14, 2024 by stuartelden

Cristina Vatulescu, Reading the Archival Revolution: Declassified Stories and their Challenges – Stanford University Press, November 2024 The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the “archival revolution” due to its unprecedented scale, drama, and impact. … Continue reading →

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Jenny Turner reviews Gillian Rose, Marxism Modernism and Love’s Work at London Review of Books

Posted on November 13, 2024 by stuartelden

Jenny Turner reviews Gillian Rose, Marxism Modernism and Love’s Work at London Review of Books

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Matthew Watson, False Prophets of Economics Imperialism: The Limits of Mathematical Market Models – Agenda, November 2024

Posted on November 13, 2024 by stuartelden

Matthew Watson, False Prophets of Economics Imperialism: The Limits of Mathematical Market Models – Agenda, November 2024 This book studies the methodological revolution that has resulted in economists’ mathematical market models being exported across the social sciences. The ensuing process … Continue reading →

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Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, translated by Derek Coltman, edited by Stuart Elden, afterword by Veena Das – HAU books, December 2024

Posted on November 12, 2024 by stuartelden

Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, translated by Derek Coltman, edited by Stuart Elden, afterword by Veena Das – HAU books, December 2024 The book is now available for sale, in print or e-book via … Continue reading →

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Amín Pérez, Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle – Polity Press, December 2023 and New Books Discussion

Posted on November 12, 2024 by stuartelden

Amín Pérez, Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle – Polity Press, December 2023 New Books Discussion with Dave O’Brien – thanks to dmf for the link Pierre Bourdieu and Abdelmalek Sayad met in their twenties in the midst … Continue reading →

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Kaspar Villadsen, Foucault’s Technologies – Oxford University Press, November 2024

Posted on November 11, 2024 by stuartelden

Kaspar Villadsen, Foucault’s Technologies – Oxford University Press, November 2024 Shame about the prohibitive price… Michel Foucault is rarely viewed as a philosopher of technology, yet academics and students routinely refer to his terms ‘technologies of power’, ‘governmental technologies’, and … Continue reading →

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Caroline Ashcroft, Catastrophic Technology in Cold War Political Thought – Edinburgh University Press, November 2024

Posted on November 11, 2024 by stuartelden

Caroline Ashcroft, Catastrophic Technology in Cold War Political Thought – Edinburgh University Press, November 2024

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David McLaughlin, Making the literary-geographical word of Sherlock Holmes: The game is afoot – University of Wales Press, October 2024

Posted on November 10, 2024 by stuartelden

David McLaughlin, Making the literary-geographical word of Sherlock Holmes: The game is afoot – University of Wales Press, October 2024 In the second half of the twentieth century, American readers of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories – known as … Continue reading →

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Thomas Piketty and Michael J. Sandel, Equality: What it Means and Why it Matters – Polity, January 2025

Posted on November 9, 2024 by stuartelden

Thomas Piketty and Michael J. Sandel, Equality: What it Means and Why it Matters – Polity, January 2025 In this compelling dialogue, two of the world’s most influential thinkers reflect on the value of equality and debate what citizens and … Continue reading →

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Books received – Bradley, Konings, Nail, Adey, TCS

Posted on November 8, 2024 by stuartelden

Some books previously mentioned here, sent by publishers – Arthur Bradley, Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy; Martijn Konings, The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People; Thomas Nail, The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction; Peter Adey, Evacuation: The Politics … Continue reading →

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