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Gëzim Visoka and Nicolas Lemay-Hébert, Normalization in World Politics – University of Michigan Press, 2022 (open access e-book)

Posted on August 17, 2022 by stuartelden

Gëzim Visoka and Nicolas Lemay-Hébert, Normalization in World Politics – University of Michigan Press, 2022 (open access e-book) As we face new challenges from climate change and the rise of populism in Western politics and beyond, there is little doubt … Continue reading →

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Angharad Closs Stephens, National Affects: The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political – Bloomsbury, September 2022

Posted on August 15, 2022 by stuartelden

Angharad Closs Stephens, National Affects: The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political – Bloomsbury, September 2022 Identity is widely acknowledged to be a felt experience, yet questions of atmosphere, mood and public sentiments are rarely made central to understanding the global … Continue reading →

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Books received – Kuper, Ojakangas, Drews, Glendinning, Cassirer

Posted on August 12, 2022 by stuartelden

Books in recompense for review work, including the new translation of Ernst Cassirer’s The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, and Simon Glendinning’s Europe: A Philosophical History.

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Seminario: El bestiario de Michel Foucault (2022-23)

Posted on August 12, 2022 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Seminario: El bestiario de Michel Foucault 9 sesiones mensuales, Miércoles 19-20:30 horas. Del 26 octubre 2022 al 28 de junio de 2023. Institut français (Marqués de la Ensenada, 12) – Sala Mediateca. Coordinación: Rodrigo Castro…

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Books received – Detienne, Benveniste, Olender, Dumézil, Rampling, Katz

Posted on August 11, 2022 by stuartelden

Some second-hand books for the Indo-European thought project, along with Jennifer M. Rampling, The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700, in recompense for review work, and Irit Katz, The Common Camp: Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel-Palestine, which I … Continue reading →

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Ulrich Johannes Schneider, Foucault im Hörsaal: Über das mündliche Philosophieren – Verlag Turia + Kant, 2022

Posted on August 11, 2022 by stuartelden

Ulrich Johannes Schneider, Foucault im Hörsaal: Über das mündliche Philosophieren – Verlag Turia + Kant, 2022 Im Hörsaal zeigt sich das europäische Philosophieren jederzeit mündlich und beweglich. Viele pilgerten zwischen 1970 und 1984 nach Paris, wo Michel Foucault dreizehn umfangreiche … Continue reading →

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Pierre Macherey and the Case of Literary Production, ed. Warren Montag and Audrey Wasser – Northwestern University Press, 2022

Posted on August 8, 2022 by stuartelden

Pierre Macherey and the Case of Literary Production, ed. Warren Montag and Audrey Wasser – Northwestern University Press, 2022 Contributions by Pierre Macherey, Nathan Brown, David Marriott, Nick Nesbitt, Ellen Rooney and Joseph Serrano

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Ash Amin and Michele Lancione eds. Grammars of the Urban Ground – Duke University Press, June 2022

Posted on August 8, 2022 by stuartelden

Ash Amin and Michele Lancione eds. Grammars of the Urban Ground – Duke University Press, June 2022 the Introduction is open access here

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David Beer, The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking: Automation, Intelligence and the Politics of Knowing – Bristol University Press, November 2022

Posted on August 4, 2022 by stuartelden

David Beer, The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking: Automation, Intelligence and the Politics of Knowing – Bristol University Press, November 2022 We are living in algorithmic times.  From machine learning and artificial intelligence to blockchain or simpler news-feed filtering, automated systems … Continue reading →

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Christina B. Carroll, The Politics of Imperial Memory in France, 1850–1900 – Cornell University Press, May 2022

Posted on August 4, 2022 by stuartelden

Christina B. Carroll, The Politics of Imperial Memory in France, 1850–1900 – Cornell University Press, May 2022 By highlighting the connections between domestic political struggles and overseas imperial structures, The Politics of Imperial Memory in France, 1850–1900 explains how and why French … Continue reading →

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