Author Archives: stuartelden

Matthew J Dennis, Cultivating our Passionate Attachments – Routledge, 2020 Does a flourishing life involve pursuing passionate attachments? Can we choose what these passionate attachments will be? This book offers an original theory of how we can actively cultivate our … Continue reading →

Historical Materialism Online 2020: Deutscher prize lecture – Brett Christophers, who won the 2019 Deutscher Memorial Prize with his The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain (Verso). The pre-recorded lecture is following by a live discussion … Continue reading →

Joseph Pugliese, Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human: Forensic Ecologies of Violence – Duke University Press, November 2020 In Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human Joseph Pugliese examines the concept of the biopolitical through a nonanthropocentric lens, arguing that more-than-human entities—from soil and orchards to animals … Continue reading →

William Viney, Twins – Reaktion Books, April 2021 Human twins have many meanings and different histories. They have been seen as gods and monsters, signs of danger, death and sexual deviance. They are taken as objects of wonder and violent … Continue reading →

Nigel Clark, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Planetary Social Thought: The Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences – Polity, January 2021 The Anthropocene has emerged as perhaps the scientific concept of the new millennium. Going further than earlier conceptions of the human–environment relationship, Anthropocene science proposes that … Continue reading →

Tiphanie Samoyault on the process of writing her biography of Roland Barthes I worked hard, taking the historian’s approach to begin with: spent whole days consulting the archives; moving on to interviews (which weren’t actually that useful because my interviewees … Continue reading →