Author Archives: stuartelden

Nina Power and Justin Murphy, Introduction to Bataille – video beginning an online course

Posted on May 21, 2020 by stuartelden

Nina Power and Justin Murphy, Introduction to Bataille – video beginning an online course. More details on the course here – thanks to Jeremy Crampton for the links.

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Michael Wood and Adam Shatz, The Theory Truce, LRB conversations (podcast)

Posted on May 19, 2020 by stuartelden

Michael Wood and Adam Shatz, The Theory Truce, LRB conversations (podcast) Michael Wood talks to Adam Shatz about critical theory, its origins, developments and various diversions, and where it stands today. The conversation marks the publication of the eighth volume … Continue reading →

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Anna Krakus and Cristina Vatulescu, “Foucault in Poland: A Secret Archive”, Diacritics, 2020 (open access at present)

Posted on May 19, 2020 by stuartelden

Anna Krakus and Cristina Vatulescu, “Foucault in Poland: A Secret Archive“, Diacritics, Vol 47 No 2, 2020. It seems to be open access at present. It’s a great piece on an important year in Foucault’s life – I was lucky … Continue reading →

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Books received – Merleau-Ponty, Bataille, Dumézil, Arboleda, Khalili, Patron

Posted on May 19, 2020 by stuartelden

Second-hand books by Merleau-Ponty, Bataille and Dumézil; Martin Arboleda, Planetary Mine and Laleh Khalili, Sinews of War and Trade from the Verso sale; and Sylvie Patron, Critique 1946-1996.

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Faut-il brûler… Sade, Dumézil, Heidegger, Kafka – a question on the use of a trope [updated]

Posted on May 18, 2020 by stuartelden

I had previously thought that the use of the expression ‘Faut-il brûler… ?’ – ‘must we burn.. ?’ someone or something was due to Simone de Beauvoir. Her text Faut-il brûler Sade? first appeared in Les temps modernes in 1951 and 1952, and … Continue reading →

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Keith Thomas on the working methods of a historian (archive)

Posted on May 18, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Keith Thomas on the working methods of a historian – archive piece from the LRB. I shared this back in the early days of this blog, but I came across it again today, and it’s worth…

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Michel Foucault, Confessions of the Flesh: History of Sexuality Volume IV, translated by Robert Hurley – Penguin January 2021

Posted on May 17, 2020 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Confessions of the Flesh: History of Sexuality Volume IV, translated by Robert Hurley, edited by Frédéric Gros – Penguin January 2021 Long awaited news of the English translation of this text, first published in French in early 2018. … Continue reading →

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Laleh Khalili, Sinews of War and Trade Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula – Verso, May 2020 (and podcast discussion)

Posted on May 16, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Laleh Khalili, Sinews of War and Trade Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula – Verso, May 2020 On the map of global trade, China is now the factory of the world. A parade of…

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Hashim Sarkis, Roi Salgueiro Barrio and Gabriel Kozlowski, The World as an Architectural Project – MIT Press, March 2020

Posted on May 15, 2020 by stuartelden

Hashim Sarkis, Roi Salgueiro Barrio and Gabriel Kozlowski, The World as an Architectural Project – MIT Press, March 2020 [updated to correct the attribution – the three names are the book’s authors, not editors. My apologies.] Architects imagine the planet: … Continue reading →

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Alain Badiou – the film, directed by Gorav and Rohan Kalyan

Posted on May 15, 2020 by stuartelden

Badiou – the film, directed by Gorav and Rohan Kalyan (more details here)

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