Author Archives: stuartelden

Giorgio Agamben, Self-Portrait in the Studio – The Paris Review, August 2024; an excerpt from the forthcoming book with Seagull

Posted on September 10, 2024 by stuartelden

Giorgio Agamben, Self-Portrait in the Studio – The Paris Review, August 2024 A form of life that keeps itself in relation to a poetic practice, however that might be, is always in the studio, always in its studio. Its—but in … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 23: Emile Benveniste and Georges Dumézil at the Collège de France, and an article on Alexandre Koyré

Posted on September 9, 2024 by stuartelden

The chapter I’m currently working on for the Mapping Indo-European Thought project is a study of the two decades Benveniste and Dumézil were teaching in parallel at the Collège de France. I’ve been concentrating on Dumézil so far, but I plan to … Continue reading →

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David Matless, England’s Green: Nature and Culture since the 1960s – University of Chicago Press, August 2024

Posted on September 8, 2024 by stuartelden

David Matless, England’s Green: Nature and Culture since the 1960s – University of Chicago Press, August 2024 A sweeping history of how ecological challenges have shaped English society over the last sixty years. England’s Green explores how environmental concerns have shaped and … Continue reading →

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K. Maria D. Lane, Fluid Geographies: Water, Science, and Settler Colonialism in New Mexico – University of Chicago Press, July 2024

Posted on September 7, 2024 by stuartelden

K. Maria D. Lane, Fluid Geographies: Water, Science, and Settler Colonialism in New Mexico – University of Chicago Press, July 2024 An unprecedented analysis of the origin story of New Mexico’s modern water management system. Maria Lane’s Fluid Geographies traces New Mexico’s transition … Continue reading →

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“A Different Open Access Model for Journals”, Daily Nous; David Murakami Wood “radical open access [journals] in the Social Sciences”

Posted on September 6, 2024 by stuartelden

“A Different Open Access Model for Journals“, Daily Nous Recent discussion of open-access journals and their financing prompted a reader to share information about a different model for publishers and journals converting to open-access, known as “subscribe-to-open”. This model isn’t … Continue reading →

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Debbie Hall, Adventures in Maps – Bodleian Library Publishing, July 2024

Posted on September 6, 2024 by stuartelden

Debbie Hall, Adventures in Maps – Bodleian Library Publishing, July 2024 A richly illustrated collection that maps twenty historical journeys. Adventures in Maps features twenty awe-inspiring journeys, ranging in distances from a few miles to great treks across land, sea, air, … Continue reading →

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Books received – Koyré, Meillet, Rose, Barry, Moyn

Posted on September 5, 2024 by stuartelden

Some recently bought second-hand books, including Gillian Rose’s The Broken Middle, James Barry, Measures of Science, and Samuel Moyn, Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics. Top of the pile is a first edition of Alexandre Koyré’s … Continue reading →

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Brook Ziporyn, Experiments in Mystical Atheism: Godless Epiphanies from Daoism to Spinoza and Beyond – University of Chicago Press, October 2024

Posted on September 5, 2024 by stuartelden

Brook Ziporyn, Experiments in Mystical Atheism: Godless Epiphanies from Daoism to Spinoza and Beyond – University of Chicago Press, October 2024 A new approach to the theism-scientism divide rooted in a deeper form of atheism.  Western philosophy is stuck in … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies 36: Special Issue – Foucault’s Legacy in Contemporary Thinking: Forty Years Later (1984-2024)

Posted on September 4, 2024 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies 36: Special Issue – Foucault’s Legacy in Contemporary Thinking: Forty Years Later (1984-2024) The issue is edited by Valentina Antoniol and Stefano Marino – all open access and able to download either individual essays or the issue as … Continue reading →

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Tuomo Tiisala, Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons: Elaborating Foucault’s Pragmatism – Routledge, July 2024 (open access)

Posted on September 4, 2024 by stuartelden

Tuomo Tiisala, Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons: Elaborating Foucault’s Pragmatism – Routledge, July 2024 (open access) Update: Colin Koopman reviews it at NDPR This book argues that the received view of the distinction between freedom and power … Continue reading →

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