Author Archives: stuartelden

Laleh Khalili and Sara Fregonese on the Beirut explosion

Posted on August 12, 2020 by stuartelden

Laleh Khalili, ‘Behind the Beirut explosion lies the lawless world of international shipping‘, The Guardian (via The Gamming – which has an important note about the title) Her book Sinews of War and Trade was published by Verso earlier this year. See also … Continue reading →

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Books received – Mauss, Davidson, Dubuisson, Schrift, Sartre, Hannah, Derrida, Prideaux

Posted on August 11, 2020 by stuartelden

Mainly some books from Routledge in recompense for review work, including Matthew Hannah, Direction and Socio-Spatial Theory, but also Alastair Davidson’s Antonio Gramsci: Towards an Intellectual Biography, Tel Quel 17 – to which Foucault contributed, Derrida’s Le calcul des langues, and Sue Prideaux’s Strindberg: A Life.

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Robert Boncardo on the sixtieth anniversary of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason

Posted on August 10, 2020 by stuartelden

Robert Boncardo on the sixtieth anniversary of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason at the Verso blog. Celebrating its sixtieth birthday this year, and enjoying a new print run thanks to Verso Books, the first volume of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique … Continue reading →

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Mitchell Dean on Foucault’s Last Decade; Peter Beilharz on Foucault: The Birth of Power in Thesis Eleven

Posted on August 10, 2020 by stuartelden

Two interesting reviews of my books in Thesis Eleven. Mitchell Dean reviews Foucault’s Last Decade and Ben Golder’s Foucault and the Politics of Rights; and Peter Beilharz reviews Foucault: The Birth of Power. Both reviews require subscription, unfortunately. Dean is generous in his praise, but also … Continue reading →

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Video and audio recordings of Hannah Arendt

Posted on August 10, 2020 by stuartelden

Samantha Rose Hill (@Samantharhill) shared these on Twitter – a really useful resource. UpdateL there is some useful discussion at Aphelis Recordings of Hannah Arendt: with Joachim Fest https://t.co/3sOLQtVzPC On Heidegger https://t.co/3myge0R7ZP On Brecht https://t.co/r7iHPVO0Pa On Power & Violence https://t.co/b3MPsHPUQk … Continue reading →

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Bernard Stiegler (1952-2020)

Posted on August 7, 2020 by stuartelden

Sorry to hear the news of the death of Bernard Stiegler. There is a brief note in Libération. I only met him once, at the Association for Philosophy and Literature/Theory, Culture & Society conference in Klagenfurt, Austria last year. His … Continue reading →

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Bradley Garrett, Bunker: Building for the End Times – Allen Lane, August 2020 (and Guardian article)

Posted on August 4, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Bradley Garrett, Bunker: Building for the End Times – Allen Lane, August 2020 Update: see also this piece in The Guardian ‘Bunker is an extraordinary achievement; a big-thinking, deep-diving, page-turning study of fear, privilege and…

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Hilary Angelo, How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens – University of Chicago Press, February 2021

Posted on July 31, 2020 by stuartelden

Hilary Angelo, How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens – University of Chicago Press, February 2021 As projects like Manhattan’s High Line, Chicago’s 606, China’s eco-cities, and Ethiopia’s tree-planting efforts show, cities around the … Continue reading →

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Books received – Dumézil, Lévi-Strauss, Mountz, Balzac

Posted on July 31, 2020 by stuartelden

Some recently published or reprinted books from University of Minnesota Press in recompense for review work, including Alison Mountz, The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago and a new translation of Balzac’s Lost Illusions, and some second-hand books, mainly in … Continue reading →

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Racism in America: A Reader – open access e-book from Harvard University Press

Posted on July 30, 2020 by stuartelden

Racism in America: A Reader – open access e-book from Harvard University Press Racism in America has been the subject of serious scholarship for decades. At Harvard University Press, we’ve had the honor of publishing some of the most influential … Continue reading →

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