Author Archives: stuartelden

Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney eds. Media Rurality – Duke University Press, April 2026

Posted on May 15, 2026 by stuartelden

Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney eds. Media Rurality – Duke University Press, April 2026 Media Rurality investigates the centrality of rural places and people within the media systems and technologies that shape daily life in and across rural and urban settings … Continue reading →

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Patrick Brodie, Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland – Duke University Press, March 2026

Posted on May 14, 2026 by stuartelden

Patrick Brodie, Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland – Duke University Press, March 2026 In Wild Tides, Patrick Brodie maps the shifting fortunes of the Irish economy before the 2008 financial crisis up to 2020, outlining how the … Continue reading →

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Ana Oancea, Dangerous Creations: The Inventor Novel in Fin-de-Siècle France – University of Toronto Press, July 2025 and New Books discussion

Posted on May 14, 2026 by stuartelden

Ana Oancea, Dangerous Creations: The Inventor Novel in Fin-de-Siècle France – University of Toronto Press, July 2025 Dangerous Creations presents a master narrative of the inventor in fin-de-siècle French literature by analyzing the works of Jules Verne, Albert Robida, Émile Zola, and Villiers … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault’s annotated theses on Madness and Kant – now available online

Posted on May 13, 2026 by stuartelden

In March last year I shared news of the discovery of typescript versions of Foucault’s two theses – what became the History of Madness and his introduction and translation of Kant’s Anthropology, annotated by Foucault – Emmanuel le Doeff, À … Continue reading →

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Robin James, Good Vibes Only: Phenomenology and the Biopolitics of Algorithmic Legitimation – Duke University Press, November 2026

Posted on May 13, 2026 by stuartelden

Robin James, Good Vibes Only: Phenomenology and the Biopolitics of Algorithmic Legitimation – Duke University Press, November 2026 In Good Vibes Only, Robin James argues that the vibes, the mathematical vectors driving modern technologies, have shifted. Considering the forms of governance … Continue reading →

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Alex Tomas Fusco, The Production of Camp Space: An Analysis of a Refugee Camp in Mainland Greece – Springer, May 2026

Posted on May 12, 2026 by stuartelden

Alex Tomas Fusco, The Production of Camp Space: An Analysis of a Refugee Camp in Mainland Greece – Springer, May 2026 This book uses a Lefebvrian spatial framework to explore the ‘production’ of Ritsona refugee camp in Central Greece. Lefebvre’s … Continue reading →

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Franco Basaglia ed. The Negated Institution: Report from a Psychiatric Hospital – trans. John Foot, Brainstorm Books, October 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on May 12, 2026 by stuartelden

Franco Basaglia ed. The Negated Institution: Report from a Psychiatric Hospital – trans. John Foot, Brainstorm Books, October 2025 (print and open access) Thanks to dmf for the link The Negated Institution: Report from a Psychiatric Hospital was first published in 1968 … Continue reading →

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Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and his World: A New Translation, trans. Sergeiy Sandler, Cambridge: MIT Press, October 2025

Posted on May 11, 2026 by stuartelden

Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and his World: A New Translation, trans. Sergeiy Sandler, Cambridge: MIT Press, October 2025 A new and improved translation of Mikhail Bakhtin’s classic and celebrated study of carnival. Mikhail Bakhtin’s classic study of carnival, laughter, the grotesque, and … Continue reading →

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Maria Antonietta Macciocchi – Althusser, Gramsci, Maoism, Fascism and Pasolini

Posted on May 10, 2026 by stuartelden

Maria Antonietta Macciocchi (1922-2007) was a journalist, politician and academic. She is known for works including Daily Life in Revolutionary China (Italian and French in 1971; English in 1972). Her work on China was heavily criticised, and one example would be a … Continue reading →

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Books received – Simon, Macciocchi, Spinney, Kristeva, Leray, Mallory

Posted on May 9, 2026 by stuartelden

John K. Simon, Modern French Criticism; Maria-Antoinetta Macciocchi, Les femmes et leurs maîtres; Laura Spinney, Proto; Julia Kristeva, Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death; a special issue on Jean Leray; Ryan L. Allen, Adventures in the Archaic and J.P. Mallory, … Continue reading →

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