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Books received – Aron, Hyppolite, Nietzsche, Saussure, Nora, Benveniste, Butler, Sirinelli

Posted on November 18, 2020 by stuartelden

Some new and second-hand books for the Foucault work and related projects.

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Marcos Saquet, Approaches and conceptions of territory – Platão, 2020

Posted on November 18, 2020 by stuartelden

Marcos Saquet, Approaches and conceptions of territory – Platão, 2020 An English translation of a book originally published in Portuguese – description is in Portuguese below. Este texto publicado originalmente em língua portuguesa (2007) está sendo preparado para a 5ª. … Continue reading →

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The Deleuze Seminars – Data Rescue

Posted on November 18, 2020 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned the Deleuze Seminars project before – an online resource gathering recordings, transcriptions and translations of his teaching work. This kind of work is very valuable, but relies on source material. I know from my work on Foucault that … Continue reading →

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David Storey (ed.), A Research Agenda for Territory and Territoriality – Elgar, 2020 [paperback 2022]

Posted on November 17, 2020 by stuartelden

David Storey (ed.), A Research Agenda for Territory and Territoriality – Edward Elgar, 2020 Just an expensive hardback at present, but Introduction and front matter open access here. Update: the paperback is now available. Elgar Research Agendas outline the future … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche Or the Realm of Shadows – Verso, February 2020 – reviewed at Marx & Philosophy by Kaiyue He

Posted on November 17, 2020 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche Or the Realm of Shadows – translated by David Fernbach, introduced by Stuart Elden, Verso, February 2020 – reviewed at Marx & Philosophy by Kaiyue He. The review is a useful survey of the book … Continue reading →

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Mona Domosh, Michael Heffernan, Charlie W.J. Withers (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography – Sage, December 2020

Posted on November 17, 2020 by stuartelden

Mona Domosh, Michael Heffernan, Charlie W.J. Withers (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography – Sage, December 2020 A major two-volume reference work, but really expensive… Historical geography is an active, theoretically-informed and vibrant field of study within modern geography, … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, ‘Foucault as Translator of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker’, Theory, Culture & Society, 2020 (open access)

Posted on November 17, 2020 by stuartelden

My article ‘Foucault as Translator of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker‘, is now available online first in Theory, Culture & Society, 2020 Foucault’s Introduction to a translation of Ludwig Binswanger’s essay ‘Dream and Existence’ was published in late 1954. The translation … Continue reading →

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Talking to Thinkers with Quentin Skinner, 2 November 2020 (video)

Posted on November 16, 2020 by stuartelden

Talking to Thinkers with Quentin Skinner with Johnny Lyons, 2 November 2020 (video) In the episode of Talking to Thinkers Johnny Lyons talks to the eminent historian Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London … Continue reading →

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Charlotte Epstein, Birth of the State: The Place of the Body in Crafting Modern Politics – Oxford University Press, December 2020

Posted on November 13, 2020 by stuartelden

Charlotte Epstein, Birth of the State: The Place of the Body in Crafting Modern Politics – Oxford University Press, December 2020 This book uses the body to peel back the layers of time and taken-for-granted ideas about the two defining … Continue reading →

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Craig Robertson, The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information – University of Minnesota Press, May 2021

Posted on November 13, 2020 by stuartelden

Craig Robertson, The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information – University of Minnesota Press, May 2021 The ubiquity of the filing cabinet in the twentieth-century office space, along with its noticeable absence of style, has obscured its transformative role … Continue reading →

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