Author Archives: stuartelden

Mark Neocleous, The Politics of Immunity: Security and the Policing of Bodies – Verso, March 2022 Our contemporary political condition is obsessed with immunity. The immunity of bodies and the body politic; personal immunity and herd immunity; how to immunize … Continue reading →

David Bissell, Mitch Rose and Paul Harrison (eds.), Negative Geographies: Exploring the Politics of Limits – University of Nebraska Press, November 2021 Negative Geographies is the first edited collection to chart the political, conceptual, and ethical consequences of how the underexplored … Continue reading →

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 →