Author Archives: stuartelden

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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Truth and Knowledge for Michel Foucault, with Ann Stoler (2020)

Posted on May 15, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Truth and Knowledge for Michel Foucault, with Ann Stoler Great Books 31, Think About It | Podcast Conversations on big ideas and great books hosted by Uli Baer. Why is everyone talking about Michel Foucault…

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Christopher Harker, Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine – Duke University Press, December 2020

Posted on May 15, 2020 by stuartelden

Christopher Harker, Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine – Duke University Press, December 2020 In Spacing Debt Christopher Harker demonstrates that financial debt is as much a spatial phenomenon as it is a temporal and social one. … Continue reading →

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