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Ben Clift, Comparative Political Economy: States, Markets and Global Capitalism, 2nd edition – Red Globe Press, 2021

Posted on February 16, 2021 by stuartelden

Ben Clift, Comparative Political Economy: States, Markets and Global Capitalism, 2nd edition – Red Globe Press/Macmillan, 2021 This is a book about how 21st-century capitalism really works. Modern economics strips away social, historical, and political context from analysis of ‘the … Continue reading →

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‘Michel Foucault and the Social Contract’, Stuart Elden, Mark Kelly and Christopher Watkin, 13 April 2021 (online seminar)

Posted on February 16, 2021 by stuartelden

On 13 April 2021, 6pm Melbourne/9am UK, I’ll be taking part in an online discussion on ‘Michel Foucault and the Social Contract‘ with Mark Kelly and Christopher Watkin, as part of a series looking at the social contract today. Full … Continue reading →

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Books received – Rose, Balibar, Martinet, Lévi-Strauss, Harker, Dumézil

Posted on February 15, 2021 by stuartelden

Books for the Foucault research, along with a few in recompense for review work for Verso, and Christopher Harker, Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine, sent by Duke University Press, and the new translation of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Wild … Continue reading →

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Łukasz Stanek, Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War – Princeton University Press, January 2020 – discussion at New Books Network

Posted on February 15, 2021 by stuartelden

Łukasz Stanek, Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War – Princeton University Press, January 2020 Discussion at New Books Network with Sharika Crawford In the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and … Continue reading →

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Jean Hyppolite’s teaching at the Collège de France – ‘the history of philosophical thought’

Posted on February 15, 2021 by stuartelden

The chair Foucault held at the Collège de France was previously occupied by Jean Hyppolite. Hyppolite had been Foucault’s teacher, was supervisor of his diploma thesis on Hegel and rapporteur for his secondary doctoral thesis on Kant’s Anthropology. Hyppolite succeeded … Continue reading →

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Harriet Hawkins, Geography, Art, Research: Artistic Research in the GeoHumanities – Routledge, 2021

Posted on February 15, 2021 by stuartelden

Harriet Hawkins, Geography, Art, Research: Artistic Research in the GeoHumanities – Routledge, 2021 This book explores the intersection of geographical knowledge and artistic research in terms of both creative methods and practice-based research. In doing so it brings together geography’s … Continue reading →

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Paul Earlie, Derrida and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis – Oxford University Press, February 2021

Posted on February 12, 2021 by stuartelden

Paul Earlie, Derrida and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis – Oxford University Press, February 2021 In Derrida and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis, Paul Earlie offers a detailed account of the importance of psychoanalysis in Derrida’s thought. Based on close readings of texts … Continue reading →

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Elizabeth A. Povinelli, The Inheritance – Duke University Press, 2021 (open access Introduction)

Posted on February 12, 2021 by stuartelden

Elizabeth A. Povinelli, The Inheritance – Duke University Press, 2021 Elizabeth A. Povinelli’s inheritance was passed down not through blood or soil but through a framed map of Trentino, Alto Adige—the region where family’s ancestral alpine village is found. Far … Continue reading →

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Edward Baring, Converts to the Real: Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy – Paris Institute for Critical Thinking Bookaholics #5

Posted on February 12, 2021 by stuartelden

Edward Baring, Converts to the Real: Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy – Paris Institute for Critical Thinking Bookaholics #5 Converts to the Real was published by Harvard University Press in 2019. Our fifth interview is with Edward Baring, … Continue reading →

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Claude Lévi-Strauss, Wild Thought – a new translation of La pensée sauvage – University of Chicago Press, February 2021 (now published)

Posted on February 11, 2021 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Wild Thought – a new translation of La pensée sauvage – translated by Jeffrey Mehlman and John Leavitt, University of Chicago Press, December 2020 [update: now listed as February 2021] Perhaps the most influential…

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