Author Archives: stuartelden

Books received – Foucault, Greimas, Lévi-Strauss, Derrida, Vernant, Lejeune

Posted on December 30, 2024 by stuartelden

Most of these bought on a recent Paris trip, and a couple from online second-hand stores. Spectres of Marx is a new edition, including a debate with Étienne Balibar; Du même à l’autre is the most recent seminar volume, including … Continue reading →

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C.L.R. James, interviewed by Stuart Hall, introduction by Phoebe Braithwaite – complete unaired BBC interview from 1976, in The New York Review

Posted on December 29, 2024 by stuartelden

C.L.R. James, interviewed by Stuart Hall, introduction by Phoebe Braithwaite – complete unaired BBC interview from 1976, in The New York Review – requires subscription or free registration to read just this piece

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Kenny Cupers, The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design – University of Texas Press, 2024 and New Books discussion

Posted on December 28, 2024 by stuartelden

Kenny Cupers, The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design – University of Texas Press, 2024  New Books discussion with Miranda Melcher. Thanks to dmf for the link. An intellectual history of architectural modernism for an … Continue reading →

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My publications in 2024

Posted on December 27, 2024 by stuartelden

“Canguilhem, Dumézil, Hyppolite: Georges Canguilhem and his Contemporaries”, Revue Internationale de Philosophie, No 307, 2024, 27-48 – special issue on Georges Canguilhem beyond Epistemology and the History of Science, edited by Federico Testa. “Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity”, Journal of the History of … Continue reading →

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Things Hidden: The Life and Legacy of René Girard (full documentary)

Posted on December 27, 2024 by stuartelden

Things Hidden: The Life and Legacy of René Girard (YouTube) Website and trailer at the film’s site – Things Hidden

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Dan Davies, The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind – University of Chicago Press, 2024

Posted on December 26, 2024 by stuartelden

Dan Davies, The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind – University of Chicago Press, 2024 Longlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Book of the Year. How life and the economy became a … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2024 by stuartelden

I’ve shared this before, but was thinking again about Daniel Defert’s memories of Foucault’s working routines in this interview – ‘The Materiality of a Working Life‘ (open access; original French). No no, weekends didn’t exist! We would go to see … Continue reading →

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My favourite music of 2024

Posted on December 25, 2024 by stuartelden

The music I enjoyed this year, either bought in physical form, often through Burning Shed, or digitally through bandcamp. For previous years: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012.

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Veronica Strang, Water Beings: from nature worship to the environmental crisis – Reaktion, March 2023 and book launch, Oxford, 7 March 2023

Posted on December 24, 2024 by stuartelden

Veronica Strang, Water Beings: from nature worship to the environmental crisis – Reaktion, March 2023 I’ve shared news of the book before. There is a New Books discussion with Jana Byers now available. A major study of marine serpent deities, … Continue reading →

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Ben Anderson and Anna Secor, The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism – Goldsmiths Press/PERC Papers, July 2025

Posted on December 24, 2024 by stuartelden

Ben Anderson and Anna Secor, The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism – Goldsmiths Press/PERC Papers, July 2025 How today’s dominant political forms—right-wing populism, progressivism, and liberalism—offer differentiated responses to shared conditions of uncertainty. The Politics of Feeling argues that politics has … Continue reading →

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