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British Library new temporary site – but a concerning (realistic?) assessment of time to get back up and running

Posted on December 21, 2023 by stuartelden

The British Library has a new temporary site up, with much more information available since I last checked. But in their FAQ they are anticipating ‘several months’ to assess and repair, and indicate similar organisations have taken over 12 months … Continue reading →

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Tobias Keiling and Ian Alexander Moore, Spoiling the Party? Heidegger’s Lectures on Trakl at Spa Bühlerhöhe – b2o (boundary 2 online)

Posted on December 21, 2023 by stuartelden

Tobias Keiling and Ian Alexander Moore, Spoiling the Party? Heidegger’s Lectures on Trakl at Spa Bühlerhöhe – b2o (boundary 2 online)

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Julia Kristeva, Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death or Language Haunted by Sex, trans. Armine Kotin Mortimer, Columbia University Press, December 2023

Posted on December 20, 2023 by stuartelden

Julia Kristeva, Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death or Language Haunted by Sex, trans. Armine Kotin Mortimer, Columbia University Press, December 2023

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Johan Östling and David Larsson Heidenblad, The History of Knowledge – trans. Lena Olsson, Cambridge University Press, January 2024 (print and open access)

Posted on December 19, 2023 by stuartelden

Johan Östling and David Larsson Heidenblad, The History of Knowledge – trans. Lena Olsson, Cambridge University Press, January 2024 (print and open access) Despite the date, the e-book is available now. This Element provides a pedagogical overview of the history of … Continue reading →

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Richard Lynch and Daniele Lorenzini, Bibliography of Foucault’s shorter works in English translation – newly updated (2023)

Posted on December 18, 2023 by stuartelden

Richard Lynch’s very useful Bibliography of Foucault’s shorter works in English translation has been newly updated by Daniele Lorenzini. This is a continual work in progress, and updates and corrections should be sent to Daniele for inclusion in future versions (details … Continue reading →

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CFP: Foucault: Art, Histories, and Visuality in the 21st Century OCAD (Ontario College of Art and Design) University, Toronto/Tkaronto, Canada, May 29-30, 2024

Posted on December 18, 2023 by stuartelden

Foucault: Art, Histories, and Visuality in the 21st Century OCAD (Ontario College of Art and Design) University, Toronto/Tkaronto, Canada, May 29-30, 2024 The French philosopher Michel Foucault’s (1926–84) work has had a major effect on scholars of art and visuality … Continue reading →

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Earthly volumes, voluminous materialities: Working with apprehension – special issue of Territory, Politics, Governance, edited by Mia Bennett and Klaus Dodds (part open access)

Posted on December 17, 2023 by stuartelden

Earthly volumes, voluminous materialities: Working with apprehension – special issue of Territory, Politics, Governance, edited by Mia Bennett and Klaus Dodds (part open access) Earthly volumes, voluminous materialities: working with apprehensionMia M. Bennett & Klaus DoddsPages: 1-11 | DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2023.2242394 Data centres … Continue reading →

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Carolyn Dever, How to Lose a Library at Public Books – the best thing I’ve read on the ongoing and very serious British Library problems

Posted on December 16, 2023 by stuartelden

Carolyn Dever, How to Lose a Library at Public Books – the best thing I’ve read on the ongoing and very serious British Library problems (via @nescio13 on X/Twitter) What’s business as usual at the Victoria and Albert Museum is … Continue reading →

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Trailer for the film Umberto Eco: A Library of the World

Posted on December 16, 2023 by stuartelden

Umberto Eco: A Library of the World – Official Trailer I’ve shared the video below before, but a few years ago, and it’s still great. Umberto Eco, “I was always narrating“

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Six degrees of T.S. Eliot – the links through Jean de Menasce to Émile Benveniste

Posted on December 15, 2023 by stuartelden

Given how connected he was, I suppose it was only a matter of time before my Indo-European research project led me in the direction of T.S. Eliot. It came in the lead I was following with Jean de Menasce, who … Continue reading →

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