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John Guillory, Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study – University of Chicago Press, December 2022

Posted on January 18, 2023 by stuartelden

John Guillory, Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study – University of Chicago Press, December 2022 A sociological history of literary study—both as a discipline and as a profession. As the humanities in higher education struggle with a labor … Continue reading →

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Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences – Columbia University Press, August 2022; reviewed at London Review of Books by John Whitfield

Posted on January 17, 2023 by stuartelden

Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences – Columbia University Press, August 2022; reviewed at London Review of Books by John Whitfield – doesn’t seem to require subscription to read. The books looks important, but the … Continue reading →

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Stephanie C. Kane, Just One Rain Away: The Ethnography of River-City Flood Control – McGill-Queen’s University Press, December 2022

Posted on January 16, 2023 by stuartelden

Stephanie C. Kane, Just One Rain Away: The Ethnography of River-City Flood Control – McGill-Queen’s University Press, December 2022 Not long ago it seemed flood control experts were close to mastering the unruly flows funnelling toward Hudson Bay and the … Continue reading →

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Ellen Meiksins Wood, A Social History of Western Political Thought – Verso, August 2022

Posted on January 16, 2023 by stuartelden

Ellen Meiksins Wood, A Social History of Western Political Thought – Verso, August 2022

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Aileen Fyfe, Noah Moxham, Julie McDougall-Waters, and Camilla Mørk Røstvik, A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015 – UCL Press, October 2022 (print and open access pdf)

Posted on January 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Aileen Fyfe, Noah Moxham, Julie McDougall-Waters, and Camilla Mørk Røstvik, A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015 – UCL Press, October 2022 (print and open access pdf) Modern scientific research has changed so much since Isaac … Continue reading →

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La Pensée 410 – special issue on Henri Lefebvre

Posted on January 13, 2023 by stuartelden

La Pensée 410 – special issue on Henri Lefebvre Les 24 et 25 mars 2022 s’est tenu à Paris un colloque, organisé par La Pensée, le Groupe d’études du matérialisme rationnel et la Fondation Gabriel Péri, consacré à l’étude et à l’hommage … Continue reading →

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Kristi Sweet, Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: The Territory of the Third Critique – Cambridge University Press, January 2023 [and open access Introduction]

Posted on January 11, 2023 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Kristi Sweet, Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: The Territory of the Third Critique – Cambridge University Press, January 2023 Another expensive hardback, but looks interesting… [update: the Introduction is available open access] Kant’s Critique…

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Victor Konrad and Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, Border Culture: Theory, Imagination, Geopolitics – Routledge, December 2022

Posted on January 9, 2023 by stuartelden

Victor Konrad and Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, Border Culture: Theory, Imagination, Geopolitics – Routledge, December 2022 This book introduces readers to the cultural imaginings of borders: the in-between spaces in which transnationalism collides with geopolitical cooperation and contestation. Recent debates about … Continue reading →

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Italo Calvino, The Written World and the Unwritten World: Collected Non-Fiction, translated by Ann Goldstein – Penguin, January 2023

Posted on January 8, 2023 by stuartelden

Italo Calvino, The Written World and the Unwritten World: Collected Non-Fiction, translated by Ann Goldstein – Penguin, January 2023

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Michel Foucault Werner Schroeter, la conversation (film) (1981)

Posted on January 8, 2023 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Poster for sale – click picture MICHEL FOUCAULT WERNER SCHROETER, LA CONVERSATION (CARNET FILMÉ : 3 décembre 1981) Année : 1981. Durée : 1 H 30′ Voir aussi BNF Catalogue Général An English translation of…

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