Author Archives: stuartelden

Books received (2) – Hyppolite, Mauss, Wollstonecraft, Jameson, Benveniste, Forestal & Philips, Besteman

Posted on December 23, 2020 by stuartelden

The papers from Hyppolite’s final seminar (including pieces by Derrida and Althusser), Marcel Mauss, Sociologie et anthropologie, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, some works by Emile Benveniste, Fredric Jameson’s The Prison-House of Language, Jennifer Forestal and … Continue reading →

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Books received (1) – Badiou, Stimilli, Eliade, Rosenberg & Westfall, Duby, Heidegger, Turner

Posted on December 23, 2020 by stuartelden

Some books in recompense for review work for Bloomsbury, James Turner, Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities and a second-hand copy of Georges Duby, The Three Orders.

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Adrian J Ivakhiv’s Books of the decade in ecocultural theory

Posted on December 22, 2020 by stuartelden

Adrian J Ivakhiv’s Books of the decade in ecocultural theory Ten years ago, I posted an article on this blog with the exact same title as this one. It was enjoyable, at the time, to create a list of ten books I … Continue reading →

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Alexander Orakhelashvili, International Law and International Politics: Foundations of Interdisciplinary Analysis – Edward Elgar, December 2020

Posted on December 22, 2020 by stuartelden

Alexander Orakhelashvili, International Law and International Politics: Foundations of Interdisciplinary Analysis – Edward Elgar, December 2020 This illuminating monograph examines analytical and practical aspects of the relationship between international law and international politics, providing a comprehensive analysis of the foundations … Continue reading →

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New Books Network interview with Dave O’Brien – Stuart Elden, Shakespearean Territories (University of Chicago Press, 2018)

Posted on December 21, 2020 by stuartelden

New Books Network interview with Dave O’Brien – Stuart Elden, Shakespearean Territories (University of Chicago Press, 2018) Thanks to Dave for the invitation to be part of this excellent podcast again. What can Shakespeare tell us about territory, and what … Continue reading →

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Shirin M. Rai, Milija Gluhovic, Silvija Jestrovic and Michael Saward (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance – Oxford University Press, March 2021

Posted on December 21, 2020 by stuartelden

Shirin M. Rai, Milija Gluhovic, Silvija Jestrovic and Michael Saward (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance – Oxford University Press, March 2021. Political scientists and political theorists have long been interested in social and political performance. Theatre and … Continue reading →

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Rodney Harrison and Colin Sterling (eds.), Deterritorializing the Future: Heritage in, of and after the Anthropocene – Open Humanities Press (open access), 2020

Posted on December 21, 2020 by stuartelden

Rodney Harrison and Colin Sterling (eds.), Deterritorializing the Future: Heritage in, of and after the Anthropocene – Open Humanities Press (open access), 2020. Understanding how pasts resource presents is a fundamental first step towards building alternative futures in the Anthropocene. … Continue reading →

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Theodor W. Adorno, Notes to Literature (combined edition) – Columbia University Press, 2019

Posted on December 21, 2020 by stuartelden

Theodor W. Adorno, Notes to Literature (combined edition) – Columbia University Press, 2019, edited by Rolf Tiedemann, translated by Shierry Weber Nicholson, with a new introduction by Paul Kottman. I’d missed this when it was published late last year. Notes … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault Update 4: The term from hell, Foucault in Brazil and Tunisia, and the problems of archival research in a pandemic

Posted on December 18, 2020 by stuartelden

This was an exceptionally difficult term – probably the hardest I can remember in twenty-five years of working in universities. It was very hard to make any progress on this manuscript – the fourth and final book in this sequence … Continue reading →

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Emanuel Clairizio, Robert Poma and Michel Spanò (eds.), Milieu, mi-lieu, milieux – Éditions Mimesis, 2020

Posted on December 18, 2020 by stuartelden

Emanuel Clairizio, Robert Poma and Michel Spanò (eds.), Milieu, mi-lieu, milieux – Éditions Mimesis, 2020 Georges Canguilhem af­firmait que la notion de milieu s’était constituée « comme catégorie de la pensée contemporaine ». En effet, depuis que la biologie de … Continue reading →

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