Author Archives: stuartelden

Jacques Lacan, Premiers écrits, Seuil, January 2023 [updated]

Posted on January 5, 2023 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Jacques Lacan, Premiers écrits, Seuil, January 2023 Avant que d’être psychanalyste, Lacan a été psychiatre. On n’aurait pas republié ses premiers écrits s’ils n’invitaient à une lecture après coup. Que nous apprennent-ils de la formation…

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Mark Atherton, Kazutomo Karasawa, Francis Leneghan (eds), Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature – Brepols, 2002

Posted on January 2, 2023 by stuartelden

Mark Atherton, Kazutomo Karasawa, Francis Leneghan (eds), Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature – Brepols, 2002 Looks interesting, but that price! Across three thematically-linked sections, this volume charts the development of competing geographical, national, and imperial identities … Continue reading →

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Twenty one 1000 word encounters with Lauren Berlant’s work at The Geographical Journal

Posted on January 2, 2023 by stuartelden

Twenty one 1000 word encounters with Lauren Berlant’s incredible work Encountering Berlant Part 1: Concepts otherwise Encountering Berlant Part 2: Cruel and other optimisms Open access – thanks to Ben Anderson for the link

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Books received – Roland Barthes

Posted on January 1, 2023 by stuartelden

Some lecture courses by Roland Barthes, and Michael Moriarty’s study of him, all bought second-hand.

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My favourite music of 2022

Posted on December 31, 2022 by stuartelden

And live, I particularly enjoyed Big Big Train, Frost*, Marillion, Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets, The Neal Morse Band, Porcupine Tree, Transatlantic, Van der Graaf Generator and the streaming of Nik Bärtsch’s Montags series at yourstage.live [I should have shared … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2022

Posted on December 30, 2022 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021). The criteria was simply that they were published in that year (or late the previous year), and that I read and appreciated them. … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies. New Issue (December 2022)

Posted on December 30, 2022 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Foucault Studies. Number 33, December 2022 Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al Articles The Use and Misuse of Pleasure: Hadot contra Foucault on the Stoic Dichotomy Gaudium-Voluptas in Seneca Matteo Johannes Stettler The Subject of Desire…

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Michael Hardt – Empire, 20 Years On (podcast)

Posted on December 29, 2022 by stuartelden

Michael Hardt – Empire, 20 Years On Michael Hardt joined Coop and Taylor for a look at his work with a focus on an article from he and Toni Negri titled, Empire, 20 Years On. We look back at some … Continue reading →

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Brett Christophers, Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World – Verso, April 2023

Posted on December 29, 2022 by stuartelden

Brett Christophers, Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World – Verso, April 2023 All hail the new masters of Capitalism: How asset managers acquired the world Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a … Continue reading →

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Indo-European thought project update 8: working on Barthes, Lévi-Strauss and the Mission Paul Pelliot

Posted on December 23, 2022 by stuartelden

Since the last update on this project I’ve not done quite what I intended. I had thought I’d begin working systematically through Georges Dumézil’s works in a chronological way, filling in much detail and some gaps in my previous reading. Instead I went down … Continue reading →

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