Author Archives: 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 →

“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 →

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 →

Writing Intellectual History after the “Age of Forms”: An Interview with Elías J. Palti – Journal of the History of Ideas blog – Part I and Part II In this interview, primary editors Jacob Saliba and Zac Endter speak with … Continue reading →

Johanna Vuorelma, Irony in International Politics – Edinburgh University Press, December 2024 Examines the use of ironic language among political leaders in international politics. Irony in International Politics investigates ironic language in international politics, focusing on how political leaders use irony … Continue reading →

Sam Halvorsen (ed.), Latin American Geographies – Routledge, March 2025 Latin American Geographies introduces student readers to cutting-edge scholarship on a range of topics from Indigenous geographies to sustainable development and dependency theory. The book is written primarily by a Latin … Continue reading →

Amin Erfani, Theatricality Beyond Disciplines – Intellect, October 2025 This book expands on theories of “theatricality” in French and critical studies, adopting a transdisciplinary approach that reaches beyond performance studies into poetry, media technology, translation, and psychoanalytic theory.  Building on Artaud’s … Continue reading →

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World – Penguin Random House, October 2024 A globe shows the world we think we know: neatly delineated sovereign nations that grant or restrict their citizens’ rights. Beneath, above, and … Continue reading →