Author Archives: stuartelden

Naomi Waltham-Smith, Free Listening – University of Nebraska Press, November 2024 Free Listening offers a radical reframing of seemingly intractable debates and polarized positions on free speech, academic freedom, systemic injustice, and political dissent by shifting attention from our voices to … Continue reading →

Martin Paul Eve, Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History – Stanford University Press, July 2024 (print and open access) Digital spaces are saturated with metaphor: we have pages, sites, mice, and windows. Yet, in the world of digital textuality, … Continue reading →

The Case for Diamond Open Access at Daily Nous, about Philosophy and Public Affairs “As editors of one of our field’s leading journals, we feel a strong responsibility to help build collective momentum towards a better arrangement: a publishing model … Continue reading →

Eric Storm, Nationalism: A World History – Princeton University Press, October 2024 The current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, living in a borderless world of virtual connectivity. In Nationalism, historian Eric … Continue reading →

Alain Corbin, A History of Rest, trans. Helen Morrison – Polity, June 2024 Rest occupies a space outside of sleep and alertness: it is a form of recuperation but also of preparation for what is to come, and is a … Continue reading →

Sami Moisio and Ugo Rossi, The Urban Field: Capital and Governmentality in the Age of Techno-Monopoly – Agenda, July 2024 We live in an era of techno-monopoly power in which technocapitalism – through ubiquitous digital platforms – has colonized both the internet … Continue reading →

Another useful contribution to the debate from Liz Morrish at Academic Irregularities.

Jasmine Cooper, Lili Owen Rowlands and Katie Pleming (eds.), Rage: Affect and Resistance in French and Francophone Culture and Thought, 1968–2020 – Peter Lang, June 2024 This volume explores the political life of rage as it has been experienced and mobilized … Continue reading →