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Émile Benveniste, Problems in General Linguistics, Expanded Edition – HAU Books, August 2021 [now listed as February 2023]

Posted on November 13, 2020 by stuartelden

Émile Benveniste, Problems in General Linguistics, Expanded Edition – HAU Books, distributed by University of Chicago Press, August 2021 [now listed as February 2023] First published fifty years ago, Émile Benveniste’s two-volume Problèmes de linguistique générale revolutionized the study of linguistics … Continue reading →

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Matthew Hart, Extraterritorial: A Political Geography of Contemporary Fiction – Columbia University Press, August 2020, discussed at New Books Network

Posted on November 12, 2020 by stuartelden

Matthew Hart, Extraterritorial: A Political Geography of Contemporary Fiction – Columbia University Press, 2020 is discussed at New Books Network Extraterritorial: A Political Geography of Contemporary Fiction (Columbia University Press, 2020) explores how texts—literary and visual—help us engage with the space … Continue reading →

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Betty Rojtman, The Fascination with Death in Contemporary French Thought: A Longing for the Abyss – Palgrave Pivot, 2020 – with discussion at New Books

Posted on November 11, 2020 by stuartelden

Betty Rojtman, The Fascination with Death in Contemporary French Thought:  A Longing for the Abyss – Palgrave Pivot, 2020 – with discussion at New Books with Renee Garfinkel This book analyses a cultural phenomenon that goes to the very roots of Western civilization: the centrality … Continue reading →

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Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Kärrholm, Animated Lands: Studies in Territoriology – University of Nebraska Press, November 2020

Posted on November 11, 2020 by stuartelden

Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Kärrholm, Animated Lands: Studies in Territoriology – University of Nebraska Press, November 2020 In Animated Lands Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Kärrholm focus on territory as a living phenomenon—and territoriality as an active and constantly reshaping force. … Continue reading →

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Robert J. Mayhew and Charles W. J. Withers (eds.), Geographies of Knowledge: Science, Scale, and Spatiality in the Nineteenth Century – Johns Hopkins University Press, August 2020

Posted on November 11, 2020 by stuartelden

Robert J. Mayhew and Charles W. J. Withers (eds.), Geographies of Knowledge: Science, Scale, and Spatiality in the Nineteenth Century – Johns Hopkins University Press, August 2020 There is a short blog post about the collection here. Over the past … Continue reading →

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Books received – Peeters, Benveniste, Biagi, Collard, Brighenti & Karrholm, Lévi-Strauss and Jakobson, Hyppolite, Derrida, Lévi-Strauss and Eribon

Posted on November 10, 2020 by stuartelden

Alongside some books bought new or second-hand for the Foucault work and related projects, I was sent a copy of Rosemary Clare-Collard, Animal Traffic: Lively Capital in the Global Exotic Pet Trade by the publisher, Animated Lands: Studies in Territoriology … Continue reading →

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Stuart Hall, Selected Writings on Marxism and Selected Writings on Race and Difference – Duke University Press, April 2021

Posted on November 10, 2020 by stuartelden

Stuart Hall, Selected Writings on Marxism and Selected Writings on Race and Difference – Duke University Press, April 2021. Throughout his career Stuart Hall engaged with Marxism in varying ways, actively rethinking it to address the particular political and cultural … Continue reading →

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Celia Lury, Problem Spaces: How and Why Methodology Matters – Polity, November 2020

Posted on November 9, 2020 by stuartelden

Celia Lury, Problem Spaces: How and Why Methodology Matters – Polity, November 2020 In this innovative book, Celia Lury argues that the time has come for us to explore the world not only with new methods, but with a new approach … Continue reading →

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Mark Neocleous, A Critical Theory of Police Power – new edition, Verso, January 2021 [and New Books discussion]

Posted on November 9, 2020 by stuartelden

Mark Neocleous, A Critical Theory of Police Power – new edition, Verso, January 2021 [update – discussion of the new edition at the New Books podcast] Putting police power into the centre of the picture of capitalism The ubiquitous nature … Continue reading →

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Illan rua Wall, Law and Disorder: Sovereignty, Protest, Atmosphere – Routledge, December 2020

Posted on November 5, 2020 by stuartelden

Illan rua Wall, Law and Disorder: Sovereignty, Protest, Atmosphere – Routledge, December 2020 Focusing on the moment when social unrest takes hold of a populace, Law and Disorder offers a new account of sovereignty with an affective theory of public order and … Continue reading →

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