Author Archives: stuartelden

Julian Brigstocke, Nonauthoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power – LSE Press, March 2026 (print and open access)

Posted on April 7, 2026 by stuartelden

Julian Brigstocke, Nonauthoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power – LSE Press, March 2026 (print and open access) Authority is not a word with many positive connotations. It suggests power-hungry dictators, trigger-happy police, stifling bureaucracies, and monumental urban … Continue reading →

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Clémentine Fauré-Bellaïche, A Protestant Air: Gide, Sartre, Barthes, and the Religion of Literary Modernity –  Cornell University Press, June 2026

Posted on April 6, 2026 by stuartelden

Clémentine Fauré-Bellaïche, A Protestant Air: Gide, Sartre, Barthes, and the Religion of Literary Modernity –  Cornell University Press, June 2026 A Protestant Air focuses on the Protestant connection linking three intellectual giants of twentieth-century French thought: André Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Roland … Continue reading →

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Maurice Blanchot’s Politics and His War-Time Reviews of Georges Dumézil

Posted on April 5, 2026 by stuartelden

The philosopher, literary theorist and novelist Maurice Blanchot’s politics have come under periodic scrutiny. Leslie Hill describes the source of the controversy:  As early as 1931 and 1932, while starting out with the Journal des débats, Blanchot was writing political articles … Continue reading →

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Sakora Christmas, Territorial Natures: Imperial Japan and the Mongolian Question – University of Chicago Press, October 2026

Posted on April 4, 2026 by stuartelden

Sakora Christmas, Territorial Natures: Imperial Japan and the Mongolian Question – University of Chicago Press, October 2026 A critical account of the Japanese occupation in Inner Mongolia. Early in the twentieth century, the steppe borderlands between China and Mongolia erupted in violence. … Continue reading →

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The Story of Capital: Book Launch with David Harvey in Conversation with Adam Tooze

Posted on April 3, 2026 by stuartelden

The Story of Capital: Book Launch with David Harvey in Conversation with Adam Tooze – discussing The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works (Verso, 2026), via Reading Capital with David Harvey

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Mark Pennington, Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom – Oxford University Press, August 2025 and New Books interview

Posted on April 3, 2026 by stuartelden

Mark Pennington, Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom – Oxford University Press, August 2025 New Books interview with Morteza Hajizadeh – thanks to dmf for the link This highly original and innovative book is the first to … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre wasn’t a fan of previous missions to the moon

Posted on April 2, 2026 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre wasn’t a fan of previous missions to the moon, describing it as “the sacrifice of a considerable part of the earth’s resources in order to gain possession of one of the ghastliest of all the piles of pebbles … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s lectures in Buffalo – audio recordings of the 1972 course and part of the 1970 course online

Posted on April 2, 2026 by stuartelden

Foucault’s lectures in Buffalo – audio recordings of the 1972 course and part of the 1970 one are now available online. The 1972 course has recently been transcribed as Histoire de la vérité, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Orazio Irrera. … Continue reading →

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Books received – Barthes, Berthier, Pleynet, Traini, Nizan, Cresswell, Amigo Pina, Meng, Deleuze, Jacob, Cusset

Posted on April 2, 2026 by stuartelden

I’ve been away for a while, so there were a few books waiting for me on my return. Several of these relate to a planned ‘Sunday History‘ on the Tel Quel visit to China – Jean Berthier’s recent book Voyage … Continue reading →

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Paul Harrison, Anna J. Secor and Mikko Joronen eds. Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe – Edinburgh University Press, August 2026 (print and open access)

Posted on April 1, 2026 by stuartelden

Paul Harrison, Anna J. Secor and Mikko Joronen eds. Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe – Edinburgh University Press, August 2026 (print and open access)

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