Author Archives: stuartelden

Efimia D. Karakantza, Alexandros Velaoras, and Marion Meyer (eds.), Ancient Necropolitics: Maltreating the Living, Abusing the Dead in Greek Antiquity – Brill, January 2025 

Posted on February 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Efimia D. Karakantza, Alexandros Velaoras, and Marion Meyer (eds.), Ancient Necropolitics: Maltreating the Living, Abusing the Dead in Greek Antiquity – Brill, January 2025  This is the first collection of essays approaching aspects of Greek antiquity and its reception through … Continue reading →

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Open access directories – a resource page on Foucault News

Posted on February 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Open access directories – a resource page on Foucault News

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Linda Peake, Anindita Datta and Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin (eds.), Handbook on Gender and Cities – Edward Elgar, 2024

Posted on February 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Linda Peake, Anindita Datta and Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin (eds.), Handbook on Gender and Cities – Edward Elgar, 2024 This Handbook is a state-of-the-art exploration of the multidisciplinary field of gender and cities scholarship, providing in-depth assessments of the latest research within key areas … Continue reading →

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Special issue: Alexandre Kojève and Russian Philosophy – Studies in East European Thought, eds. Isabel Jacobs and Trevor Wilson, March 2024

Posted on February 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Special issue: Alexandre Kojève and Russian Philosophy – Studies in East European Thought, eds. Isabel Jacobs and Trevor Wilson, March 2024 Alexandre Kojève and Russian philosophy, Isabel Jacobs & Trevor Wilson The paradoxical anchoring of Kojève’s philosophizing in the tradition … Continue reading →

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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