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Melissa Adler, Surveillance in the Empire of Liberty: Why Thomas Jefferson Matters in Our Information Age – Bloomsbury, January 2026

Posted on December 27, 2025 by stuartelden

Melissa Adler, Surveillance in the Empire of Liberty: Why Thomas Jefferson Matters in Our Information Age – Bloomsbury, January 2026 Examines the formation of a surveillance state through a close examination of Thomas Jefferson’s plantation management techniques and political actions. With … Continue reading →

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The Logic of Fantasy: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XIV – ed. Jacques-Alain Miller, trans. Adrian Price, Polity, April 2026

Posted on December 26, 2025 by stuartelden

The Logic of Fantasy: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XIV – ed. Jacques-Alain Miller, trans. Adrian Price, Polity, April 2026 ‘Logic of the fantasy’: the expression recurs throughout the Seminar as a leitmotif, yet not a single lesson is … Continue reading →

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My favourite music of 2025

Posted on December 25, 2025 by stuartelden

The music I enjoyed this year, either bought in physical form, often through Burning Shed, or digitally through bandcamp. For previous years: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012. Live, I enjoyed Dream Theater, Steven Wilson, Neal Morse, Remain in Light, Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin, Nik Bärtsch and Kaspar … Continue reading →

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Books received – Davy, Luyssen, Deleuze, Lévi-Strauss and Dreyfus, Derrida

Posted on December 24, 2025 by stuartelden

Some second-hand or new French books, including Johanna Luyssen, Les Fragments d’Hélène, Deleuze’s Sur l’appareil d’État et la machine de guerre: Cours novembre 1979-mars 1980 and Sur Spinoza, Aux sources de tristes tropiques. Les carnets de terrain de Claude et Dina … Continue reading →

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Gary Slater, Lisa Landoe Hedrick eds. Ethics Across Borders: Reimagining Religious, Political, and Ecological Divides – Routledge, December 2025

Posted on December 24, 2025 by stuartelden

Gary Slater, Lisa Landoe Hedrick eds. Ethics Across Borders: Reimagining Religious, Political, and Ecological Divides – Routledge, December 2025 Ethics Across Borders assembles perspectives from geographers, historians, theologians, philosophers, and scientists to explore ethically relevant connections across multiple types of borders. … Continue reading →

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Books received – Leshem, Arvidsson, Natter and Réfrégier, Pawelski

Posted on December 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Noam Leshem, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land, the reedition of Stefan Arvidsson, Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology As Ideology and Science, Henri Natter and Adam Réfrégier, Five Years Behind Hitler’s Barbed Wire:A Diary of French Officers … Continue reading →

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Katie Donington, Abdul Mohamud, Robin Whitburn and Nicholas Draper, Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past – UCL Press, November 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on December 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Katie Donington, Abdul Mohamud, Robin Whitburn and Nicholas Draper, Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past – UCL Press, November 2025 (print and open access) This groundbreaking book brings together the latest academic research on Britain’s involvement in transatlantic … Continue reading →

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Penelope Corfield interviews Christopher Hill

Posted on December 22, 2025 by stuartelden

Thanks to Neil Stewart for this – Penelope Corfield interviews Christopher Hill Institute of Historical Research – Interviews with Historians – Christopher Hill

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Michael Braddick, Christopher Hill: The life of a Radical Historian – Verso, February 2025

Posted on December 22, 2025 by stuartelden

Michael Braddick, Christopher Hill: The life of a Radical Historian – Verso, February 2025 I’ve shared the book before, but there is now a New Books discussion with Lucas Tse – thanks to dmf for this link A luminous biography … Continue reading →

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Michaela Fišerová and Jakub Mácha eds. Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Decoration: Ornamental Thinking – Routledge, January 2026

Posted on December 22, 2025 by stuartelden

Michaela Fišerová and Jakub Mácha eds. Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Decoration: Ornamental Thinking – Routledge, January 2026 Just a very expensive hardback listed at the moment. This volume offers a fresh and timely contribution to current discussions of ornamentation, repetition, … Continue reading →

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