Author Archives: stuartelden

Alex Danchev, Magritte: A Life – Profile, November 2021

Posted on December 10, 2021 by stuartelden

Alex Danchev, Magritte: A Life – Profile, November 2021 Great to see this book is now out – completed after Danchev’s untimely death by Sarah Whitfield. There is a review in The Guardian. ‘The first significant biography of the artist’ … Continue reading →

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Eileen Hunt Botting (ed.), Portraits of Wollstonecraft, two volumes, Bloomsbury, May 2021

Posted on December 9, 2021 by stuartelden

Eileen Hunt Botting (ed.), Portraits of Wollstonecraft, two volumes, Bloomsbury, May 2021 A major, and very expensive, reference work on Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary Wollstonecraft’s watershed contribution to theories of women’s human rights and her international reception by both Western and non-Western … Continue reading →

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Stuart Hall, Writings on Media: History of the Present – Duke University Press, November 2021; and BBC Sounds ‘Afterwords: Stuart Hall’

Posted on December 9, 2021 by stuartelden

Stuart Hall, Writings on Media: History of the Present, edited by Charlotte Brunsdon – Duke University Press, November 2021. This is the latest volume in the Selected Writings series. Writings on Media gathers more than twenty of Stuart Hall’s media analyses, … Continue reading →

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Keith Tribe, Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950 – OUP, December 2021

Posted on December 9, 2021 by stuartelden

Keith Tribe, Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950 – OUP, December 2021. Only expensive hardback and e-book at the moment, unfortunately. During the late nineteenth century concerns about international commercial rivalry were often expressed in terms of … Continue reading →

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Cat Moir, Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism – discussion, 14 December 2021

Posted on December 7, 2021 by stuartelden

Cat Moir, Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics – hardback Brill 2019; paperback Haymarket, 2020 Discussion 14 December 2021, 5pm – details and registration here Update: the stream of this discussion will be here Cat Moir’s 2020 book Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism: … Continue reading →

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Books received – Kristeva, Lacan, Cahiers pour l’analyse, Benveniste

Posted on December 6, 2021 by stuartelden

All bought second-hand, including the issue of Cahiers pour l’analyse with the questions to Foucault and his reply.

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Philosophy and the Rise of Fascism: A Symposium on Lukács’s Destruction of Reason, New York, 1-3 February 2022

Posted on December 6, 2021 by stuartelden

Philosophy and the Rise of Fascism: A Symposium on Lukács’s Destruction of Reason Join us for a three-day online symposium on György Lukács’s 1954 work, The Destruction of Reason, one of the most important works of philosophy in the 20th … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 12: archival work in Paris on drafts of The Archaeology of Knowledge and Foucault’s notebooks

Posted on November 26, 2021 by stuartelden

As the last update on this book said, I was able to make a trip to Paris over reading week. I spent most of the time at the BNF working on archival materials related to The Archaeology of Knowledge. There is a manuscript on philosophical … Continue reading →

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Sheila Hones, Literary Geography – Routledge, May 2022

Posted on November 25, 2021 by stuartelden

Sheila Hones, Literary Geography – Routledge, May 2022 Literary Geography provides an introduction to work in the field, making the interdiscipline accessible and visible to students and academics working in literary studies and human geography, as well as related fields such … Continue reading →

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Sylvère Lotringer (1938–2021)

Posted on November 25, 2021 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Sylvère Lotringer (1938–2021) Art Forum, November 10, 2021 Renowned French thinker Sylvère Lotringer, a lodestar in the twin galaxies of literary criticism and cultural theory, died on November 8 at the age of eighty-three following…

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