Author Archives: 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 →

Thomas Nail, Lucretius III: A History of Motion – Edinburgh University Press, February 2022 A guidebook to living in a world that’s destined to die, through a new reading of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura Presents a new theory of history … Continue reading →

Babette Babich, Günther Anders’ Philosophy of Technology: From Phenomenology to Critical Theory – Bloomsbury, October 2021 Gunter Anders’ Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive exploration of the ground-breaking work of German thinker Gunter Anders. Anders’ philosophy has become increasingly prescient in … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS International Workshop Nietzsche, Genealogy, Foucault: History between between Life and Power School of Arts and Humanities – University of Lisbon 14th June 2022 Event organized as part of the Praxis-CFUL  Keynote Speakers: Keynote…

A lot of second-hand books bought recently, including Cynthia Haven’s Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard.

Irus Braverman (ed.), Laws of the Sea:Interdisciplinary Currents – Routledge, July 2022 Update: the e-book can be accessed open access here. Currently listed just as hardback, but a paperback and open access e-book will also be available. One of the … Continue reading →

Stjuart Elden: Fuko: Rođenje moći (the Serbian translation of Foucault: The Birth of Power), two older Althusser books and one by Catherine Bates, Rachael Squire’s fascinating Undersea Geopolitics: Sealab, Science, and the Cold War, which I endorsed, and Miguel de Beistegui, Thought … Continue reading →

Tom Long, A Small State’s Guide to Influence in World Politics – OUP, May 2022 A complete guide for how small states can be strikingly successful and influential–if they assess their situations and adapt their strategies.Small states are crucial actors … Continue reading →

Books in recompense for University of Chicago Press review work – some older ones, two recent Derrida translations, Carlo Ginzburg and Bruce Lincoln, Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf, Camille Robcis, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy and Radical Psychology in Postwar France, and … Continue reading →