Author Archives: stuartelden

‘Critical Theory, Aesthetics and Speculative Philosophy: A Special Edition on the Thought of Gillian Rose’ – Thesis Eleven

Posted on April 2, 2025 by stuartelden

‘Critical Theory, Aesthetics and Speculative Philosophy: A Special Edition on the Thought of Gillian Rose‘ – Thesis Eleven, eds. Michael Lazarus and Daniel Andrés López Several papers, including a previously unpublished piece by Rose on Marx, are open access

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An interview with Achille Mbembe – video of the Holberg conversation

Posted on April 2, 2025 by stuartelden

An interview with Achille Mbembe – thanks to David Beer for the link Achille Mbembe received the 2024 Holberg Prize for his groundbreaking research in African history and politics, and related fields. Mbembe is research professor of history and politics at … Continue reading →

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André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology: A Selection of Writings from the 1930s to the 1960s, ed. Nathan Schlanger, trans. Nils F. Schott – Hau Books, February 2025 (open access)

Posted on April 1, 2025 by stuartelden

André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology: A Selection of Writings from the 1930s to the 1960s, ed. Nathan Schlanger, trans. Nils F. Schott – Hau Books, February 2025 Now published – open access here A selection of Leroi-Gourhan’s most important texts—many translated into English … Continue reading →

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Anthony King, Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century – Polity, 2nd edition, May 2025

Posted on April 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Anthony King, Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century – Polity, 2nd edition, May 2025 War is urbanising. From Mosul to Mumbai, Aleppo to Marawi, the largest and most intense battles of the twenty-first century have taken place in densely populated … Continue reading →

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Troubling Classical Bodies, Remarque Institute, New York University, 11 April 2025, 12.30pm and online – Brooke Holmes, Anurima Banerji and Stuart Elden

Posted on March 31, 2025 by stuartelden

Troubling Classical Bodies, Remarque Institute, New York University, 11 April 2025, 12.30pm and online – Brooke Holmes, Anurima Banerji and Stuart Elden I’ll be speaking about an aspect of my Indo-European project, on an early text by Émile Benveniste about … Continue reading →

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Richard Carter-White and Claudio Minca, A Spatial Theory of the Camp: Geopolitics, Biopolitics and the Immunitarian State – Edward Elgar, February 2025 (open access)

Posted on March 31, 2025 by stuartelden

Richard Carter-White and Claudio Minca, A Spatial Theory of the Camp: Geopolitics, Biopolitics and the Immunitarian State – Edward Elgar, February 2025 (open access) The link for the entire book is at the bottom of the page This is an open … Continue reading →

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The Territory of the Vocabulary and the Vocabulary of Territory: Emile Benveniste 

Posted on March 30, 2025 by stuartelden

If I was writing The Birth of Territory again, I would certainly have found a little space for a brief discussion of Émile Benveniste and his Le Vocabulaire des institutions indo-européennes, now available in English again as the Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society and open access … Continue reading →

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Edwin D. Rose, Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820 – University of Pittsburgh Press, March 2025

Posted on March 29, 2025 by stuartelden

Edwin D. Rose, Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820 – University of Pittsburgh Press, March 2025 In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—a period that marked the emergence of a global modernity—educated landowners, or “gentlemen,” dominated the development … Continue reading →

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Lea Ypi, Indignity: A Life Reimagined – Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2025

Posted on March 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Lea Ypi, Indignity: A Life Reimagined – Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2025 The author of Free returns with an extraordinary inquiry into historical injustice, dignity, truth, and imagination.  When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the … Continue reading →

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Kostas Axelos, The Game of the World, trans. Justin Clemens and Hellmut Munz – Edinburgh University Press, April 2023, paperback February 2025

Posted on March 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Kostas Axelos, The Game of the World, trans. Justin Clemens and Hellmut Munz – Edinburgh University Press, April 2023, paperback February 2025 Now in paperback

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