Category Archives: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Books received (1) – Cohen and Duckert, Publicover, Kaplan, Longo, Kelly, Fouchard and Lorenzini, Staszak

Posted on February 13, 2018 by stuartelden

A lot of books arrived while I was away. These ones have all been sent by publishers or authors. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert’s collection Veer Ecology: A Companion for Environmental Thinking Laurence Publicover, Dramatic Geography: Romance, Intertheatricality, and Cultural … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lacan, Freud and Earth, Tree and Traffic from the Object Lessons series

Posted on April 5, 2017 by stuartelden

Second-hand copies of Lacan’s Ecrits (the old Sheridan translation) and Freud’s Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious; along with Earth, Tree and Traffic from Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series, sent by the publisher. Earth looks especially interesting – not just … Continue reading →

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Books received – Extraterritorialities, Elemental Ecocriticism, State Phobia and Civil Society and Shakespeare

Posted on March 8, 2016 by stuartelden

A pile of recent books. I have a chapter in Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds; Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert’s collection Elemental Ecocriticism, and Mitchell Dean and Kaspar Villadsen’s State Phobia and Civil Society were both sent by publishers, and … Continue reading →

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Academic Books of 2015 – my top twenty

Posted on December 31, 2015 by stuartelden

The vast majority of academic reading in 2015 was related to Foucault, with a lot of Shakespeare work along the way. Many of these were published some time ago. These were the twenty books published in 2015 I read and most … Continue reading →

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Elemental Ecocriticism – Thinking with Earth, Air, Water and Fire

Posted on December 13, 2015 by stuartelden

Elemental Ecocriticism – Thinking with Earth, Air, Water and Fire – now out from University of Minnesota Press, edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert. Brings to ecotheory and the environmental humanities the challenges and possibilities offered by thinking … Continue reading →

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Journal of Historical Geography review forum on The Birth of Territory published (Legg, Heffernan, McDonagh, Cohen, Sassen, Elden)

Posted on November 6, 2015 by stuartelden

The review forum on The Birth of Territory in Journal of Historical Geography is now published. Reviews by Stephen Legg, Michael Heffernan, Briony McDonagh, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Saskia Sassen, and a response by me. The full article requires subscription, but there is a preprint … Continue reading →

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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s next projects – “Earth” and “Veer Ecology”

Posted on August 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s next projects – “Earth” and “Veer Ecology” – details at In the Middle. When we return from Oregon I have a semester of leave to enjoy, so I will not be in the classroom for a while … Continue reading →

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How We Write: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blank Page – edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari, forthcoming from Punctum

Posted on July 16, 2015 by stuartelden

How We Write: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blank Page – edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari, forthcoming from Punctum. This little book arose spontaneously, in the late spring of 2015, when a series of conversations emerged — first in … Continue reading →

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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen on ‘Creativity, Routine, Writing Lockdowns, and the Necessity of Ignoring Those Who Offer Themselves as Example’

Posted on July 6, 2015 by stuartelden

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen has a draft of his contribution to a collection on writing with which I am also involved: ‘Creativity, Routine, Writing Lockdowns, and the Necessity of Ignoring Those Who Offer Themselves as Example‘. (A little more on my … Continue reading →

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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (ed.), Inhuman Nature – open access book from Punctum

Posted on September 24, 2014 by stuartelden

Now available to download from Punctum books – Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (ed.), Inhuman Nature. Gathering into lively conversation scholars in medieval, early modern and object studies, Inhuman Nature explores the activity of the things, forces, and relations that enable, sustain and operate indifferently … Continue reading →

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