Author Archives: stuartelden

Anthony Burke and Stefanie Fishel, The Ecology Politic: Power, Law, and Earth in the Anthropocene – MIT Press, May 2025

Posted on February 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Anthony Burke and Stefanie Fishel, The Ecology Politic: Power, Law, and Earth in the Anthropocene – MIT Press, May 2025 A compelling proposal for new international law and institutions to address the planetary crisis that improves biodiversity protection, supports Indigenous peoples, and prevents … Continue reading →

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Marina F. Bykova (ed.), Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature: A Critical Guide – Cambridge university Press, December 2024

Posted on February 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Marina F. Bykova (ed.), Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature: A Critical Guide – Cambridge university Press, December 2024

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Franck Billé, Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity – Duke University Press, April 2025

Posted on February 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Franck Billé, Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity – Duke University Press, April 2025 In Somatic States, Franck Billé examines the conceptual link between the nation-state and the body, particularly the visceral and affective attachment to the state and the … Continue reading →

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Gillian Rose articles in Thesis Eleven

Posted on February 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Some new articles about Gillian Rose in Thesis Eleven Michael Lazarus, Economy and state: The politics of citizenship and universality in Gillian Rose, Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg – open access J.M. Bernstein, Reification in the age of climate catastrophe: … Continue reading →

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Sunday histories – short essays on Progressive Geographies

Posted on February 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Updated June 2025: The full list of essays in this series is here. Over the past several years, my Progressive Geographies blog has become too much of a noticeboard, sharing information about books, talks or shorter pieces by other people … Continue reading →

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Thomas Sebeok, Umberto Eco and the Semiotics of Nuclear Waste

Posted on February 2, 2025 by stuartelden

The oldest texts preserved are inscriptions which date back about 5,000 years, though the dating is disputed, and how they should be read presents its own controversies. Most of the earliest texts are on tablets or in stone; with surviving … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Julia Kristeva, Roman Jakobson, Sunday Histories, Umberto Eco | 13 Comments

H.E. Chehabi and David Motadel, Unconquered States: Non-European Powers in the Imperial Age – Oxford University Press, June 2025

Posted on February 1, 2025 by stuartelden

H.E. Chehabi and David Motadel, Unconquered States: Non-European Powers in the Imperial Age – Oxford University Press, June 2025 In the heyday of empire, most of the world was ruled, directly or indirectly, by the European powers. Unconquered States explores the struggles … Continue reading →

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Shelley Lynn Tremain (ed.) The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, Bloomsbury, December 2023

Posted on February 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Shelley Lynn Tremain (ed.) The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, Bloomsbury, December 2023 The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability is a revolutionary collection encompassing the most innovative and insurgent work in philosophy of disability. Edited and anthologized by disabled philosopher … Continue reading →

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Alexander Aerts, “Alexandre Kojève: Bildung in a Revolutionary Cell” – Journal of the History of Ideas blog

Posted on January 31, 2025 by stuartelden

Alexander Aerts, “Alexandre Kojève: Bildung in a Revolutionary Cell” – Journal of the History of Ideas blog In 1918 the Russian-French philosopher Alexandre Kojève (1902-1968) was caught selling soap on the black-market in Moscow by the Tchèka, the political police … Continue reading →

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Mathelinda Nabugodi, Shelley with Benjamin: A Critical Mosaic – UCL Press, January 2023 (open access)

Posted on January 30, 2025 by stuartelden

Mathelinda Nabugodi, Shelley with Benjamin: A Critical Mosaic – UCL Press, January 2023 (open access) *Yet what surprises me most of all at this time is that what I have written consists, as it were, almost entirely of quotations. – … Continue reading →

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