Author Archives: stuartelden

Mara van der Lugt, Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering – Princeton University Press, paperback September 2023 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on the question of how God could have allowed evil and suffering in … Continue reading →

Siobhan Angus, Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography – Duke University Press, March 2024 In Camera Geologica Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on immateriality in discourses on photography, … Continue reading →

David O’Sullivan, Computing Geographically: Bridging Giscience and Geography – Guilford Press, January 2024 Geographic information science (GISc) and systems (GIS) have grown rapidly in recent decades, increasingly on a separate track from geographic thought. As geography’s “big ideas”—such as space, place, … Continue reading →

Rachael Squire and Anna Jackman, Political Geography: Approaches, Concepts, Futures – Sage, November 2023

David W. Bates, An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence: Thinking with Machines from Descartes to the Digital Age – University of Chicago Press, April 2024 A revolutionary history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines. … Continue reading →

Stefanos Geroulanos, The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and our Obsession with Human Origins – Liveright, April 2024 There is more info about the book and related essays on the author’s website. Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller … Continue reading →

Kathryn Lawson and Joshua Livingstone (eds), Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil: Unprecedented Conversations – Bloomsbury, February 2024 Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil were two of the most compelling political thinkers of the 20th century who, despite having similar life-experiences, developed … Continue reading →