Author Archives: stuartelden

Francesco Biagi, Renewing Urban Critical Theories Rediscovering Thinkers, Reimagining Texts, and Reframing Questions – Routledge, November 2025

Posted on December 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Francesco Biagi, Renewing Urban Critical Theories Rediscovering Thinkers, Reimagining Texts, and Reframing Questions – Routledge, November 2025 This book presents an interdisciplinary and international reevaluation of urban critical theories, bringing together key perspectives from around the world on contemporary urban studies. Engaging … Continue reading →

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Engin Isin, The Birth of Sensory Power: Doing Things with Words, Numbers and Neurons – Edinburgh University Press, November 2025

Posted on December 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Engin Isin, The Birth of Sensory Power: Doing Things with Words, Numbers and Neurons – Edinburgh University Press, November 2025

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Books received – Porshnev, Jameson, Coveney, de Menasce, Foucault, Medby, Chimisso, Blencowe, Braudel, Jakobson

Posted on December 4, 2025 by stuartelden

A few books bought recently, mostly second-hand; Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, Cristina Chimisso, Hélène Metzger, Historian and Historiographer of the Sciences, Ingrid Medley, Arctic State Identity and Claire Blencowe, Spirits of Extraction, in recompense for review work; and Foucault’s … Continue reading →

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Cyanne E. Loyle, Escaping Justice: Impunity for State Crimes in the Age of Accountability – Cambridge, October 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on December 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Cyanne E. Loyle, Escaping Justice: Impunity for State Crimes in the Age of Accountability – Cambridge, October 2025 (print and open access) Now more than ever the international community plays a central role in pressing governments to hold their own to … Continue reading →

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Iftekhar Iqbal, The Range of the River: A Riverine History of Empire across China, India, and Southeast Asia – Stanford University Press, December 2025

Posted on December 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Iftekhar Iqbal, The Range of the River: A Riverine History of Empire across China, India, and Southeast Asia – Stanford University Press, December 2025 Spanning nearly 4 million square kilometers, the Tibetan river system—including the Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween, Mekong, Red, … Continue reading →

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Sebastian Truskolaski, Adorno and the Ban on Images – Bloomsbury, December 2020 and New Books discussion

Posted on December 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Sebastian Truskolaski, Adorno and the Ban on Images – Bloomsbury, December 2020 New Books discussion with Lukas Hoffman – thanks to dmf for the link This book upends some of the myths that have come to surround the work of … Continue reading →

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Joel Wainwright, The End: Marx, Darwin, and the Natural History of the Climate Crisis – Verso, November 2025

Posted on December 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Joel Wainwright, The End: Marx, Darwin, and the Natural History of the Climate Crisis – Verso, November 2025 How Marx provides new insights into our environmental crisis when read alongside Darwin In this pathbreaking study, Joel Wainwright shows how deeply Darwin … Continue reading →

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Federico Marcon, Fascism: The History of a Word – University of Chicago Press, June 2025 and JHI blog interview with Jonathon Catlin

Posted on December 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Federico Marcon, Fascism: The History of a Word – University of Chicago Press, June 2025 I’ve shared news of the book before, now there is a two-part interview at the Journal of the History of Ideas blog (part I; part … Continue reading →

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Elena Del Rio, Techno-Ecologies of Bill Viola and Gilbert Simondon: The Birth of Form – Edinburgh University Press, November 2025

Posted on December 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Elena Del Rio, Techno-Ecologies of Bill Viola and Gilbert Simondon: The Birth of Form – Edinburgh University Press, November 2025

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Daniel Frost and Evan Smith eds., In solidarity, under suspicion: The British far left from 1956 – Manchester University Press, November 2025

Posted on December 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Daniel Frost and Evan Smith eds., In solidarity, under suspicion: The British far left from 1956 – Manchester University Press, November 2025 In solidarity, under suspicion is the successor volume to Against the grain (2014) and Waiting for the revolution (2017), complementing analysis … Continue reading →

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