Author Archives: stuartelden

Sarah C. Dunstan and Ian Stewart eds. Race in the Modern World: An intellectual History – Cambridge University Press, August 2026 Few ideas have had a more powerful effect on the modern world than that of race, yet few ideas … Continue reading →

Reading suggestions from Stanford University Press.

Jacques Rancière, Distant Freedom: Essay on Chekhov – trans. Steven Corcoran, Polity, February 2026 Chekhov’s fiction offers a subtle yet powerful message: another life is possible. Something can always happen to our lives – a possibility that breaks the monotony … Continue reading →

First conference of the British Daseinanalysis Institute, 29 June 2026, Corpus Christi, Oxford registration: office@daseinanalysis.uk

Marcus Rediker, Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea – Verso, March 2026 Conspiracy, mutiny, and liberation across the Atlantic from the award-winning author of The Slave Ship Freedom Ship is a gripping history of the enslaved African Americans … Continue reading →

Kélina Gotman, What is a Thoughtful Life? – Manchester University Press, June 2026 In fresh readings of Theodor W. Adorno, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler, Barbara Cassin, Michel Foucault, Werner Hamacher, Martin Heidegger, and many more, Gotman rearticulates the … Continue reading →

Timothy Mitchell, The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow – Verso, March 2026 Stealing the future and concealing the theft – capitalism’s method, as examined by the author of the acclaimed Carbon … Continue reading →