Author Archives: stuartelden

Raoul Vaneigem, Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century – trans. Bill Brown, Columbia University Press, February 2024 Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth … Continue reading →

Thomas Nail, Matter and Motion: A Brief History of Kinetic Materalism – Edinburgh University Press, December 2023 Tells a new history of materialism – from prehistory to the present – that resists stasis, heirarchy and domination

Md Azmeary Ferdoush, Sovereign Atonement: Citizenship, Territory, and the State at the Bangladesh-India Border – Cambridge University Press, May 2024 The former border enclaves of Bangladesh and India existed as extra-territorial spaces since 1947. They were finally exchanged and merged as host … Continue reading →

Daniele Lorenzini, Jacques Maritain and Human Rights: Totalitarianism, Anti-semitism and Democracy (1936–1951) – trans. C. C. Godfrey-Howell, St Augustine’s Press, March 2024 The influence of Jacques Maritain in the post-war era’s embrace of human rights is undeniable. Scholars, however, overlook a … Continue reading →

James A. Tyner, The Apathy of Empire: Cambodia in American Geopolitics – University of Minnesota Press, March 2024 The Apathy of Empire reveals just how significant Cambodia was to U.S. policy in Indochina during the Vietnam War, broadening the lens to … Continue reading →

Angela Y. Davis, Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1 – Haymarket, January 2024 A major collection of essays and  speeches from pioneering freedom fighter Angela Y. DavisFor over fifty years, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective … Continue reading →

Yan Slobodkin, The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France’s Colonies – Cornell University Press, November 2023

Geotheory book series with Edinburgh University Press Editors: Paul Kingsbury and Arun Saldanha The earth is a hot topic. Accelerating crises have steadily replaced the fantasy of a global village with dreadful anticipation of the geographies of destitution, paranoia and … Continue reading →

Adam Kotsko, Things I’d like to work on before the world ends at An und für sich