Author Archives: stuartelden

Philip Hutch and Elaine Stratford, Landscape, Association, Empire: Imagining Van Diemen’s Land – Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

Posted on December 10, 2023 by stuartelden

Philip Hutch and Elaine Stratford, Landscape, Association, Empire: Imagining Van Diemen’s Land – Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 This book tells a compelling story about invasion, settler colonialism, and an emergent sense of identity in place, as seen through topographical and landscape … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Foucault News Info wanted: What fountain pen did Foucault write with?

Posted on December 9, 2023 by stuartelden

At Foucault News, Clare O’Farrell asks for information – What fountain pen did Foucault write with? Editor: I have recently developed an interest in fountain pens and was wondering if anybody knew what brand of fountain pen Foucault used? He may have used a … Continue reading →

Posted in Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

The 13/13 Essays – material linked to the seminars of The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought

Posted on December 9, 2023 by stuartelden

For several years Bernard Harcourt and colleagues at The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought have been running a series of 13/13 seminars. The seminars usually have short essays by participants available online, and now they are being collected on … Continue reading →

Posted in Bernard E. Harcourt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault | 1 Comment

W.C. Hackett, Outside the Gates – Angelico, 2021 (historical novel about Jean Wahl)

Posted on December 8, 2023 by stuartelden

W.C. Hackett, Outside the Gates – Angelico, 2021 The gates of Drancy Internment Camp in the northeast suburbs of Paris served as a holding pen for thousands of Jews during the German occupation of France in World War II. Jean … Continue reading →

Posted in Jean Wahl, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Dana Luciano, How The Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century America – Duke UP, January 2024 (open access introduction)

Posted on December 7, 2023 by stuartelden

Dana Luciano, How The Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century America – Duke University Press, January 2024 The introduction is available open access here In How the Earth Feels Dana Luciano examines the impacts of the new science of geology on nineteenth-century … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Karl Marx, Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume I – trans. Paul Reitter, ed. Paul Reitter and Paul North, preface by Wendy Brown, afterword by William Clare Roberts – Princeton University Press, September 2024

Posted on December 6, 2023 by stuartelden

Karl Marx, Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume I – trans. Paul Reitter, ed. Paul Reitter and Paul North, preface by Wendy Brown, afterword by William Clare Roberts – Princeton University Press, September 2024 Karl Marx (1818–1883) was living in exile in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment

David Storey, Territories: The Claiming of Space – new edition, Routledge, May 2024

Posted on December 5, 2023 by stuartelden

David Storey, Territories: The Claiming of Space – new edition, Routledge, May 2024 (The Routledge description says second edition, but there was one before their first with a different press.) Territories are more than simply bounded spaces; they reflect the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Catherine Malabou, Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy – Polity, trans. Carolyn Shread, November 2023

Posted on December 4, 2023 by stuartelden

Catherine Malabou, Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy – Polity, trans. Carolyn Shread, November 2023 Many contemporary philosophers – including Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Giorgio Agamben – ascribe an ethical or political value to anarchy, but none ever called themselves … Continue reading →

Posted in Catherine Malabou, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Bruce Lincoln, Secrets, Lies, and Consequences: A Great Scholar’s Hidden Past and his Protégé’s Unsolved Murder – Oxford University Press, March 2024

Posted on December 3, 2023 by stuartelden

Bruce Lincoln, Secrets, Lies, and Consequences: A Great Scholar’s Hidden Past and his Protégé’s Unsolved Murder – Oxford University Press, March 2024 The tale of a legendary scholar, an unsolved murder, and the mysterious documents that may connect themIn early … Continue reading →

Posted in Mircea Eliade, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Jure Vidmar, Territorial Status in International Law – Bloomsbury, January 2024

Posted on December 2, 2023 by stuartelden

Jure Vidmar, Territorial Status in International Law – Bloomsbury, January 2024 This book develops a new theory of territorialism and international legal status of territories. It (i) defines the concept of territory, explaining how territories are created; (ii) redefines the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment