Author Archives: stuartelden

Max Haiven, The Player and the Played: From Gamed Capitalism to 21st-Century Fascism – MIT Press, September 2026 A provocative examination of the ways our economy has been rigged by financialization, and the importance of games to our dangerous political … Continue reading →

Scott B. Ritner, Revolutionary Pessimism: Simone Weil’s Antifascist Politics – Stanford University Press, November 2026 Scott B. Ritner argues that the antifascist philosopher and mystic Simone Weil’s critical writings about the social crises of the mid-twentieth century, especially fascism, are … Continue reading →

Chad Wellmon, After the University: Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work – Johns Hopkins University Press, June 2026 When the pursuit of knowledge is eclipsed by money and power, what remains of higher learning? What is a university … Continue reading →

Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Kristin Anabel Eggeling, The Brussels Bubble: Inside the European Union in the Digital Age – Cambridge University Press, June 2026

Salvador Santino Regilme ed., Statelessness and Citizenship Revocation in Europe: Rethinking Politics, Law, Security, and Human Rights – De Gruyter Brlll, July 2026

Andrew McKenzie-McHarg, The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory – Princeton University Press, June/August 2026 Will be interesting to read this alongside Nicolas Guilhot, Conspiracy: The History of a Political Obsession – Harvard University Press, October 2026. Truthers, birthers, flat-Earthers, the deep state, … Continue reading →