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Jerry Z. Muller, Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes – Princeton University Press, April 2022

Posted on July 26, 2021 by stuartelden

Jerry Z. Muller, Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes – Princeton University Press, April 2022 Scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar … Continue reading →

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A minor note on the two versions of Foucault’s ‘This is Not a Pipe’, and the problems of the translation in Essential Works

Posted on July 8, 2021 by stuartelden

Foucault’s text on René Magritte, “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”, was published first in French in 1968 (reprinted in Dits et écrits as text 53), and then in a revised and expanded form as a book in 1973. The 1973 book was … Continue reading →

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Anthony King, Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century – Polity, July 2021

Posted on July 7, 2021 by stuartelden

Anthony King, Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century – Polity, July 2021 Over the last two decades, warfare has migrated into cities. From Mosul to Mumbai, Aleppo to Marawi, the major military battles of our time have taken place in densely populated … Continue reading →

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Gavin Hollis reviews Shakespearean Territories in Renaissance Quarterly (open access)

Posted on July 6, 2021 by stuartelden

Gavin Hollis generously reviews my 2018 book Shakespearean Territories in Renaissance Quarterly (open access). The work of the prolific political theorist and geographer Stuart Elden merits further engagement by literary historians of early modernity, in particular anyone interested in matters … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, ‘Terrain, Politics, History’ – Dialogues in Human Geography article with responses from Gastón Gordillo, Kimberley Peters, Bruno Latour, Rachael Squire and Deborah P. Dixon, and a reply (most open access)

Posted on July 6, 2021 by stuartelden

My 2019 Dialogues in Human Geography lecture, ‘Terrain, Politics, History‘ has been published in the journal (open access). The responses are by: Gastón Gordillo, The power of terrain: The affective materiality of planet Earth in the age of revolution (open … Continue reading →

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Alain Brossat et Daniele Lorenzini (dir.), Foucault et… Les liaisons dangereuses de Michel Foucault – Vrin, August 2021

Posted on July 2, 2021 by stuartelden

Alain Brossat et Daniele Lorenzini (dir.), Foucault et… Les liaisons dangereuses de Michel Foucault – Vrin, August 2021 Michel Foucault est un philosophe qui, loin de plancher sur d’autres philosophes, avance avec et contre eux – et contre pas moins … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 7: more UK library work on Foucault and Dumézil; Foucault work on literature and art

Posted on July 1, 2021 by stuartelden

Now that marking is complete, and the end of term is here, it’s been great to regain time and focus for this work. Some of the nice comments I had about The Early Foucault helped to encourage this. I’m not tired of this book, … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Confessions videos – James Faubion, Martina Tazzioli, Daniele Lorenzini, Arianna Sforzini, Elizabeth Clark, Niki Kasumi Clements, Lynne Huffer, Mark Jordan, Peter Brown, James Bernauer

Posted on July 1, 2021 by stuartelden

Conference: Foucault’s confessions videos (2021) – the videos from the series organised by Niki Kasumi Clements, all available on YouTube thanks to Foucault Studies for the link

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Lauren Berlant (1957-2021) – tributes from University of Chicago, Duke University Press and Critical Inquiry (with open access papers)

Posted on June 30, 2021 by stuartelden

The news of the sad death of Lauren Berlant has been all over social media, with many heartfelt tributes to the impact of their work. I won’t try to link to all of them, but these three are useful. University … Continue reading →

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Rachael Squire, Undersea Geopolitics: Sealab, Science, and the Cold War – Rowman, July 2021

Posted on June 30, 2021 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Rachael Squire, Undersea Geopolitics: Sealab, Science, and the Cold War – Rowman, July 2021 This book furthers academic scholarship in cutting-edge areas of geographical and geopolitical writing by drawing on a series of little-studied undersea…

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