Author Archives: stuartelden

Andy Merrifield, Gramsci’s Animality “I want to plunge into animality to draw from it new vigor” — Gramsci, New Year’s Day, 1916 One of the central “living” attractions of Testaccio’s Non-Catholic cemetery is its stray cats, a colony of twenty-five or … Continue reading →

Gerard Toal, Oceans Rise Empires Fall: Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate Catastrophe – Oxford University Press, February 2024 A powerful explanation of why geopolitical competition makes implementing effective climate change policies so difficult. As the Russia-Ukraine war has shown, great-power competition … Continue reading →

Sheryl Lightfoot and Elsa Stamatopoulou (eds.), Indigeneous People and Borders – Duke University Press, January 2024 The legacies of borders are far-reaching for Indigenous Peoples. This collection offers new ways of understanding borders by departing from statist approaches to territoriality. Bringing together … Continue reading →

Radical online collections and archives – New Historical Express I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I … Continue reading →

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Ananya Agustin Malhotra, Tran Duc Thao’s Anticolonial Phenomenology: In Theory and in Practice – JHI blog In February 1946, before the outbreak of the first Indochina War, the Vietnamese Marxist philosopher Tran Duc Thao (1917–93) outlined for the French reading … Continue reading →

In Conversation: Achille Mbembe and David Theo Goldberg on ‘Critique of Black Reason’ (2017) Achille Mbembe, The Critique of Black Reason. Duke University Press, 2016

Achille Mbembe, Brutalism – Duke University Press, January 2024 In Brutalism, eminent social and critical theorist Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale. Just as … Continue reading →