Author Archives: stuartelden

The Georges Dumézil-Michel Foucault correspondence – a chronological listing with archival locations

Posted on August 9, 2026 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault had a long friendship with the comparative mythologist and linguist Georges Dumézil. As well as providing invaluable support for Foucault’s career, Dumézil was also important to Foucault intellectually, as Didier Eribon was the first to discuss in detail, … Continue reading →

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Mark Crinson, Aviationland: Heathrow and the Making of an Airport Landscape – Paul Mellon Centre, June 2026 and New Books discussion

Posted on August 8, 2026 by stuartelden

Mark Crinson, Aviationland: Heathrow and the Making of an Airport Landscape – Paul Mellon Centre, June 2026 New Books discussion with Miranda Melcher How the UK’s largest international airport remade a local landscape Aviationland is the first critical study to examine how … Continue reading →

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Magdalena E. Stawowski, Atomic Collective: Radioactive Life in Kazakhstan – University of Toronto Press, June 2025 and New Books discussion

Posted on August 8, 2026 by stuartelden

Magdalena E. Stawowski, Atomic Collective: Radioactive Life in Kazakhstan – University of Toronto Press, June 2025 New Books discussion with Miranda Melcher – thanks to dmf for the link In the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s collapse, Kazakhstan inherited the … Continue reading →

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Delio Vasquez, Huey P. Newton: I am We – Polity, July 2026

Posted on August 7, 2026 by stuartelden

Delio Vasquez, Huey P. Newton: I am We – Polity, July 2026 Huey P. Newton was called many things in his time: revolutionary, genius, criminal, even the most surveilled human being in world history. Yet, little of the truth about … Continue reading →

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Phil McManus, Extreme Weather and the Media: Communicating Disasters and Climate Change – Elgar, 2026

Posted on August 7, 2026 by stuartelden

Phil McManus, Extreme Weather and the Media: Communicating Disasters and Climate Change – Elgar, 2026 This timely book examines how media reporting of extreme weather events informs and influences the public perception of climate change. Phil McManus argues that media … Continue reading →

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Jeanne Favret-Saada, L’impossible famille Rivière: Retour sur un triple meutre en 1835 – Gallimard, February 2026

Posted on August 6, 2026 by stuartelden

Jeanne Favret-Saada, L’impossible famille Rivière: Retour sur un triple meutre en 1835 – Gallimard, February 2026 Interview with Le Grand Continent Le 3 juin 1835, un jeune paysan normand, Pierre Rivière, égorge sa mère, sa sœur et son frère avant … Continue reading →

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Gilles Deleuze, On Spinoza: Courses, November 1980–March 1981, ed. David Lapoujade, trans. Charles J. Stivale and others, University of Minnesota Press, December 2026

Posted on August 6, 2026 by stuartelden

Gilles Deleuze, On Spinoza: Courses, November 1980–March 1981, ed. David Lapoujade, trans. Charles J. Stivale and others, University of Minnesota Press, December 2026 Through newly transcribed and translated lectures, Deleuze explores Spinoza’s philosophy concerning questions of good and evil and … Continue reading →

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Books received – Dupuis-Déri, Drouet, Mbembe, Ginzburg, Connor, Lorenzini

Posted on August 5, 2026 by stuartelden

Mostly books I’ve mentioned here before – Francis Dupuis-Déri, Killer Althusser: The Banality of Men – trans. Mélissa Bull; Pascale Drouet, Shakespeare and the Denial of Territory: Banishment, Abuse of Power and Strategies of Resistance; Achille Mbembe, Brutalism; Carlo Ginzburg, Threads and Traces; … Continue reading →

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Charles J. Stivale, Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987: Summaries and Commentary – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025

Posted on August 5, 2026 by stuartelden

Charles J. Stivale, Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987: Summaries and Commentary – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025 I’ve shared news of the book before, but now there is a New Books discussion with Nathan Smith

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Two Foucault books reissued by Routledge – History of Madness and Politics, Philosophy, Culture, October 2026

Posted on August 4, 2026 by stuartelden

History of Madness When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la Folie à l’âge Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time … Continue reading →

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