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Michel Serres, Hermes II: Interference, trans. Randolph Burke – University of Minnesota Press, April 2025

Posted on February 20, 2025 by stuartelden

Michel Serres, Hermes II: Interference, trans. Randolph Burke – University of Minnesota Press, April 2025 Unveiling the hidden connections in the network of knowledge Hermes II: Interference is the second in a series of works by philosopher Michel Serres using Hermes, … Continue reading →

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“Foucault, Dynastics and Power Relations: Between Archaeology and Genealogy” – forthcoming in Philosophy, Politics and Critique

Posted on February 20, 2025 by stuartelden

Out soon – “Foucault, Dynastics and Power Relations: Between Archaeology and Genealogy” – forthcoming in Philosophy, Politics and Critique Update May 2025: it is now published here. The article requires subscription, but as ever please email me if you don’t … Continue reading →

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Stephen Legg, Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities – University of Georgia Press, March 2025

Posted on February 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Stephen Legg, Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities – University of Georgia Press, March 2025 Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities provides a spatial analysis of the anticolonial governmentalities that emerged in the colonial capital of British India. Reading across imperial … Continue reading →

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Giacomo Clemente, Knowledge, Ideology, Reproduction: The Scholastic Apparatus in Louis Althusser and the Althusserian School, trans. Fabio Gironi, Brill, July 2025

Posted on February 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Giacomo Clemente, Knowledge, Ideology, Reproduction: The Scholastic Apparatus in Louis Althusser and the Althusserian School, trans. Fabio Gironi, Brill, July 2025 Knowledge, Ideology, Reproduction is the first book-length examination of the theses developed by Louis Althusser and his collaborators on the … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question” – forthcoming in Historical Materialism

Posted on February 18, 2025 by stuartelden

This has taken an age to reach this stage, but we now have proofs for Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, translated by Federico Testa, edited and introduced by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, forthcoming in Historical Materialism. … Continue reading →

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Kristin Ross, The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life – Verso, September 2024

Posted on February 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Kristin Ross, The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life – Verso, September 2024 What is the Commune? A leading radical historian looks at the global resurgence of the commune and asks how they can become sites of liberation. When … Continue reading →

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Ernst Kantorowicz and the California Loyalty Oath

Posted on February 16, 2025 by stuartelden

In 1950, the medieval historian Ernst Kantorowicz privately published, at his own expense, a short book entitled The Fundamental Issue. It cost him $425 – perhaps about $5000 today. It concerned a loyalty oath at the University of California, first proposed … Continue reading →

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Interview with James Bernauer about Michel Foucault (open access)

Posted on February 15, 2025 by stuartelden

“Interview with James Bernauer”, Agustín Colombo and Bernales Odino Martín, Dorsal: Revista de estudios Foucaultianos, 2025 (open access pdf) An interesting interview with James Bernauer about attending Foucault’s lectures, meeting him, organising a meeting with theologians, and Foucault’s impact on his … Continue reading →

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Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez, Unmaking Botany: Science & Vernacular Knowledge in the Colonial Philippines – Duke University Press, April 2025

Posted on February 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez, Unmaking Botany: Science & Vernacular Knowledge in the Colonial Philippines – Duke University Press, April 2025 The Introduction is available open access here. In Anglo-European botany, it is customary to think of the vernacular as that which … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 26: Benveniste’s late publications; Sunday Histories; beginning archival work in the United States

Posted on February 14, 2025 by stuartelden

Since the last update in December, I’ve been making some good progress on this project. The focus has mainly been on Benveniste’s work in the 1960s. But, as ever, I’ve found myself backtracking to earlier parts of his career and seeing some potentially … Continue reading →

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