Author Archives: stuartelden

Juan Francisco Salazar, Céline Granjou, Matthew Kearnes, Anna Krzywoszynska, Manuel Tironi (eds.), Thinking with Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory – Bloomsbury, June 2020 This book presents a novel and systematic social theory of soil, and is representative of the … Continue reading →

Geographers, sociologists, philosophers etc. on covid-19 – this list continues to be updated, though more sporadically. Particularly recent updates include some pieces on the future of universities.

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Gregg Lambert, The Elements of Foucault, University of Minnesota Press | 152 pages | May 2020 Posthumanities Series, volume 55 ISBN 978-1-5179-0878-2 | paper | $23.00 ISBN 978-1-5179-0877-5 | cloth | $92.00 A new conceptual…

I was very sorry to hear of the death of Ron Johnston, whose impact in geography and political science was extensive. I didn’t know him at all really – just a few meetings at conferences or elsewhere, but he was … Continue reading →

Originally posted on The Philosophy of Movement:
At our website “The Deleuze Seminars” we are creating edited, paginated, and formatted pdfs of Deleuze’s lectures in order to make printable versions of the material more reader-friendly and accessible. We have just…

Romanic Review theme issue: – “Category Crossings: Bruno Latour and Medieval Modes of Existence” – freely available online for three months Bruno Latour’s philosophical project has long been conceived as a critique of modernity, starting with Enlightenment dualisms (nature/culture, words/things, sacred/secular) and … Continue reading →

Online launch of “Critical Zones” exhibition at ZKM (video and links) Fri, 22.05., 6 pm (CEST): OPENING Sat–Sun, 23.–24.05.2020: STREAMING FESTIVAL The exhibition “Critical Zones – Observatories for Earthly Politics” about the critical situation of the earth falls through the … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Cat Moir, Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics – Brill 2019; paperback forthcoming with Haymarket, December 2020 In Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics, Cat Moir offers a new interpretation of the philosophy…