Author Archives: stuartelden

Berfrois articles – an archive of my pieces for this much-missed site

Posted on August 26, 2025 by stuartelden

Between 2011 and 2022 I wrote eleven pieces for the much-missed Berfrois site. Most were reviews of recent books. Although the site closed to new submissions in 2022, I thought the archive would be preserved. I was therefore disappointed to … Continue reading →

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Giancarlo Cotella and Umberto Janin Rivolin eds. Handbook of Territorial Government, Edward Elgar, August 2025

Posted on August 26, 2025 by stuartelden

Giancarlo Cotella and Umberto Janin Rivolin eds. Handbook of Territorial Government, Edward Elgar, August 2025 Another really expensive hardback, unfortunately. Integrating political, social, and technical dimensions of territorial governance, this timely Handbook provides insights into the topic from scholars across … Continue reading →

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Sara Kippur, New York Nouveau: How Postwar French Literature Became American – Stanford University Press, August 2025

Posted on August 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Sara Kippur, New York Nouveau: How Postwar French Literature Became American – Stanford University Press, August 2025 Postwar French writers were at the vanguard of global literary innovation—from the experimental minimalism of the Nouveau Roman to the literary games of the OuLiPo—but … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault’s early English translations – indications from the archives of the Georges Borchardt literary agency, the memoirs of André Schiffrin and the Susan Sontag connection

Posted on August 24, 2025 by stuartelden

Now it is almost automatic: a new book by Foucault in French is translated within a couple of years. The Collège de France courses, the Vrin series of critical editions of lecture courses and now other material, the fourth volume … Continue reading →

Posted in Georges Dumézil, Michel Foucault, Roger Caillois, Sunday Histories, The Archaeology of Foucault, Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Gilles Deleuze, Sur Spinoza, ed. David Lapoujade, Minuit, 2024

Posted on August 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Gilles Deleuze, Sur Spinoza, ed. David Lapoujade, Minuit, 2024 Juste après la destruction de l’université de Vincennes en 1980, Deleuze consacre ses premiers cours dans les nouveaux locaux de Saint-Denis à l’Éthique de Spinoza. Ce n’est certainement pas un hasard, étant … Continue reading →

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Quinn Slobodian and Philip J. Stern on Political Economy – New Books discussion with Erika Monahan

Posted on August 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Quinn Slobodian and Philip J. Stern on Political Economy – New Books discussion with Erika Monahan Philip J. Stern, Empire, Incorporated. The Corporations That Built British Colonialism (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in 2023) Quinn Slobodian, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the … Continue reading →

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Gilles Deleuze, On Painting: Courses, March-June 1981, ed. David Lapoujade, trans. Charles J. Stivale – University of Minnesota Press, August 2025

Posted on August 22, 2025 by stuartelden

Gilles Deleuze, On Painting: Courses, March-June 1981, ed. David Lapoujade, trans. Charles J. Stivale – University of Minnesota Press, August 2025 A translation of Gilles Deleuze, Sur la peinture – ed. David Lapoujade, Minuit, 2023 Update October 2025: New Books … Continue reading →

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Stockholm Studies in Indo-European Language and Culture series – two volumes open access

Posted on August 22, 2025 by stuartelden

Stockholm Studies in Indo-European Language and Culture series Jenny Larsson, Thomas Olander, Anders Richardt Jørgensen eds. Indo-European Interfaces: Integrating Linguistics, Mythology and Archaeology – Stockholm University Press, 2024 Current scientific advances are reshaping our understanding of prehistory, offering unprecedented insights into … Continue reading →

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Joshua Comaroff, Spectropolis: The Enchantment of Capital in Singapore – University of Minnesota Press, November 2025

Posted on August 21, 2025 by stuartelden

Joshua Comaroff, Spectropolis: The Enchantment of Capital in Singapore – University of Minnesota Press, November 2025 In Singapore, the financial center of Southeast Asia, hyperurbanization and commercial development exist alongside enduring belief in the economic power of ghosts: in their … Continue reading →

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Felia Allum, Women in the Mafia: Power and Influence in the Neapolitan Camorra – Cornell University Press, July 2024

Posted on August 20, 2025 by stuartelden

Felia Allum, Women in the Mafia: Power and Influence in the Neapolitan Camorra – Cornell University Press, July 2024 Women of the Mafia dives into the Neapolitan criminal underworld of the Camorra as seen and lived by the women who inhabit … Continue reading →

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