Author Archives: stuartelden

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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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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