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Veronica Strang, Water Beings: from nature worship to the environmental crisis – Reaktion, March 2023 and book launch, Oxford, 7 March 2023

Posted on January 30, 2023 by stuartelden

Veronica Strang, Water Beings: from nature worship to the environmental crisis – Reaktion, March 2023 There is a book launch at Lineacre College, Oxford, 7 March 2023, 6pm A major study of marine serpent deities, which embodied ancient people’s reverence … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Late Politics. Special Issue. South Atlantic Quarterly (2022)

Posted on January 29, 2023 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Foucault’s Late Politics. Special Issue. South Atlantic Quarterly, October 2022, Vol 121, Issue 4 Introduction: The Late Foucault and the Allegories of Theory Gavin Walker ARTICLES Beyond Neoliberal Realism: Foucault’s Late Politics Johanna Oksala Crisis…

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William Walters and Martina Tazzioli (eds.), Handbook on Governmentality – Edward Elgar, April 2023

Posted on January 28, 2023 by stuartelden

William Walters and Martina Tazzioli (eds.), Handbook on Governmentality – Edward Elgar, April 2023 My piece in here is entitled “The Yoke of Law and the Lustre of Glory: Foucault and Dumézil on Sovereignty”. It’s the first in a series … Continue reading →

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Thom Tyerman, Everyday Border Struggles: Segregation and Solidarity in the UK and Calais – book discussion, online event, 8 February 2023, 5pm

Posted on January 27, 2023 by stuartelden

Book Launch: Everyday Border Struggles: Segregation and Solidarity in the UK and Calais ONLINE EVENT – 8th February 2023, 17:00-18:30 Thom Tyerman will discuss his book Everyday Border Struggles: Segregation and Solidarity in the UK and Calais with Ana Aliverti (University of Warwick) and … Continue reading →

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Nikolina Bobic and Farzaneh Haghighi (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume I: Violence, Spectacle and Data – Routledge, November 2022

Posted on January 27, 2023 by stuartelden

Nikolina Bobic and Farzaneh Haghighi (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume I: Violence, Spectacle and Data – Routledge, November 2022 One for libraries, at this price… [update Jan 2023: a more affordable e-book is also … Continue reading →

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A big day for Lacan publications… Premier écrits, Seminar XIV: La Loqique du fantasme, English translation of Seminar XIX: Or Worse, Points edition of Seminar V

Posted on January 27, 2023 by stuartelden

27 January 2023 seems to be a big day for Lacan publications…                  Premier écrits – on which I say a little here Le Séminaire Livre XIV: La Logique du fantasme, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller – the first seminar to be published … Continue reading →

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Carlo Ginzburg: ‘In history as in cinema, every close-up implies an off-screen scene’

Posted on January 26, 2023 by stuartelden

Carlo Ginzburg: ‘In history as in cinema, every close-up implies an off-screen scene’ – Verso blog translated by David Fernbach from a text in Le Monde des Livres

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Cara Nine, Sharing Territories: Overlapping Self-Determination and Resource Rights – Oxford University Press, March 2022

Posted on January 26, 2023 by stuartelden

Cara Nine, Sharing Territories: Overlapping Self-Determination and Resource Rights – Oxford University Press, March 2022

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Joseph Vogl, Capital and Ressentiment: A Short Theory of the Present, translated by Neil Solomon – Polity, November 2022

Posted on January 26, 2023 by stuartelden

Joseph Vogl, Capital and Ressentiment: A Short Theory of the Present, translated by Neil Solomon – Polity, November 2022 The proliferation of social media has provided ideal conditions in which feelings of anger and frustration can be expressed and shared, … Continue reading →

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Engin Isin relaunched website – The Subjects of Politics

Posted on January 25, 2023 by stuartelden

Engin Isin has relaunched his website – The Subjects of Politics – with most of his publications available to download, some thematic organisation with “reflections on concepts and methods that guided it and the questions that motivated it”, along with possible connections to an “interest in … Continue reading →

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