Author Archives: stuartelden

Books received – Edelstein, Geroulanos & Wheatley, Balzac, Lévi-Strauss, Lichnerowicz et. al., Mallory & Adams, Derrida

Posted on March 5, 2021 by stuartelden

A mix of recently received books – the new translations of Balzac’s Lost Souls and Derrida’s Clang from University of Minnesota Press in recompense for review work, and Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos & Natascha Wheatley (eds.), Power and Time: Temporalities … Continue reading →

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Grégoire Chamayou, The Ungovernable Society: A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism – Polity, March 2021

Posted on March 4, 2021 by stuartelden

Grégoire Chamayou, The Ungovernable Society: A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism – Polity, translated by Andrew Brown, March 2021 Rebellion was in the air. Workers were on strike, students were demonstrating on campuses, discipline was breaking down. No relation of domination was … Continue reading →

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Colm McAuliffe on the 1973 ICA festival that sparked British interest in Francophone structuralist and post-structuralist thought – Verso blog

Posted on March 4, 2021 by stuartelden

The French Programme: How Theory Came to London – Colm McAuliffe on the 1973 ICA festival that sparked British interest in Francophone structuralist and post-structuralist thought. March 1973: two months after Britain joins the European Economic Community, the French historian of … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Speaking the Truth about Oneself: Lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982 – University of Chicago Press, October 2021

Posted on March 3, 2021 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Speaking the Truth about Oneself: Lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982 – University of Chicago Press, October 2021, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini, English edition established by Daniel Louis Wyche A collection of Foucault’s lectures that … Continue reading →

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Philosophical Inquiries, Vol 9 No 1, 2021 – special section on Ian Hacking

Posted on March 3, 2021 by stuartelden

Philosophical Inquiries, Vol 9 No 1, 2021 – special section on Ian Hacking Introduction open access, other papers require subscription Introduction. Ian Hacking and the Historical Reason of the Sciences Matteo Vagelli, Marica Setaro115-120 Naturalism, pragmatism and historical epistemology David … Continue reading →

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Does Attention to Language Matter Anymore? Philology, Translation, Criticism – special issue of boundary 2, 2021

Posted on March 3, 2021 by stuartelden

Does Attention to Language Matter Anymore? Philology, Translation, Criticism – special issue of boundary 2, 2021 (requires subscription) Paul A. Bové / Editor’s Note / 1 Jonathan Arac / Ways of Working with Language / 3 David Golumbia / The … Continue reading →

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Sasha Engelmann, Sensing Art in the Atmosphere: Elemental Lures and Aerosolar Practices – Routledge, September 2020

Posted on March 3, 2021 by stuartelden

Sasha Engelmann, Sensing Art in the Atmosphere: Elemental Lures and Aerosolar Practices – Routledge, September 2020 This book engages artistic interventions in the aerial elements to investigate the aesthetics and politics of atmosphere. Sensing Art in the Atmosphere: Elemental Lures … Continue reading →

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Stuart Hall, Selected Writings on Marxism, Duke University Press, 2021 (open access introduction by Gregor McLennan)

Posted on March 2, 2021 by stuartelden

Stuart Hall, Selected Writings on Marxism, Duke University Press, 2021 – the introduction by Gregor McLennan is open access here Throughout his career Stuart Hall engaged with Marxism in varying ways, actively rethinking it to address the political and cultural exigencies … Continue reading →

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BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking ‘Foucault: The History of Sexuality, Volume 4’ – Shahidha Bari with Lisa Downing, Stuart Elden and Stephen Shapiro, 25 February 2021

Posted on February 26, 2021 by stuartelden

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BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking – ‘Foucault: The History of Sexuality, Volume 4‘ – Shahidha Bari with Lisa Downing, Stuart Elden, and Stephen Shapiro, 25 February 2021, 10pm (and new available online) On the day…

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Michael J. Shapiro, Writing Politics: Studies in Compositional Method – Routledge, June 2021

Posted on February 26, 2021 by stuartelden

Michael J. Shapiro, Writing Politics: Studies in Compositional Method – Routledge, June 2021 Writing Politics is a methods book designed to instruct on politically focused literary inquiry. Exploring the political sensibilities that arise from the way literary fiction re-textualizes historical periods … Continue reading →

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