Author Archives: stuartelden

Michel Serres, Hermes I: Communication, trans. Louise Burchill, University of Minnesota Press, December 2023

Posted on October 28, 2023 by stuartelden

Michel Serres, Hermes I: Communication, Translated by Louise Burchill, Introduction by Paul A. Harris, University of Minnesota Press, 2023 Michel Serres is recognized as one of the giants of postwar French philosophy of knowledge, along with Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel … Continue reading →

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On the trail of Aurel Stein – working in archives for the Indo-European thought project

Posted on October 27, 2023 by stuartelden

The research for the Indo-European thought project has been difficult to confine to a solely French focus. I knew I wanted to begin what will probably be the first chapter with the story of the Mission Paul Pelliot, an expedition to Chinese … Continue reading →

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Søren Mau, Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital – Verso, January 2023

Posted on October 27, 2023 by stuartelden

Søren Mau, Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital – Verso, January 2023 Despite insoluble contradictions, intense volatility and fierce resistance, the crisis-ridden capitalism of the 21st century lingers on. To understand capital’s paradoxical expansion and … Continue reading →

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Oscar Mazzoleni, Territory and Democratic Politics: A Critical Introduction – Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 (print and open access)

Posted on October 26, 2023 by stuartelden

Oscar Mazzoleni, Territory and Democratic Politics: A Critical Introduction – Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 (print and open access) Despite the publication date, the open access version is available now. The book provides a comprehensive and updated introduction to concept of territory … Continue reading →

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Jason Read, The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work – Verso, February 2024

Posted on October 25, 2023 by stuartelden

Jason Read, The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work – Verso, February 2024 In a world of declining wages, working conditions, and instability, the response for many has been to work harder, increasing hours and finding various ways … Continue reading →

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Todd Andrew Borlik, Shakespeare Beyond the Green World – Oxford University Press, January 2023

Posted on October 24, 2023 by stuartelden

Todd Andrew Borlik, Shakespeare Beyond the Green World: Drama and Ecopolitics in Jacobean Britain – Oxford University Press, January 2023 Part of the Early Modern Literary Geographies series – just an expensive hardback at present Unpicking the ecopolitics of Shakespeare’s … Continue reading →

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Sergei Prozorov, Biopolitics After Truth: Knowledge, Power and Democratic Life – Edinburgh University Press, May 2023 (print and open access)

Posted on October 23, 2023 by stuartelden

Sergei Prozorov, Biopolitics After Truth: Knowledge, Power and Democratic Life – Edinburgh University Press, May 2023 (print and open access)

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John Brewer, Volcanic: Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions – Yale University Press, November 2023

Posted on October 22, 2023 by stuartelden

John Brewer, Volcanic: Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions – Yale University Press, November 2023 A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous eruption of 79CE. … Continue reading →

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Susan Bredlau and Talia Welsh (eds.), Normality, Abnormality, and Pathology in Merleau-Ponty, SUNY Press, August 2022

Posted on October 21, 2023 by stuartelden

Susan Bredlau and Talia Welsh (eds.), Normality, Abnormality, and Pathology in Merleau-Ponty, SUNY Press, August 2022 Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s work draws our attention to how the body is always our way of having a world and never merely a thing in … Continue reading →

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Jared D. Margulies, The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade – University of Minnesota Press, November 2023

Posted on October 20, 2023 by stuartelden

Jared D. Margulies, The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade – University of Minnesota Press, November 2023 Cacti and succulents are phenomenally popular worldwide among plant enthusiasts, despite being among the world’s most threatened species. The … Continue reading →

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