Category Archives: People

D.J.S. Cross ed. Deleuze and Affect – Edinburgh University Press, June 2026

Posted on July 13, 2026 by stuartelden

D.J.S. Cross ed. Deleuze and Affect – Edinburgh University Press, June 2026

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The Stockholm Appeal against Atomic weapons – Émile Benveniste, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Jean Boulier and Cold War Politics

Posted on July 12, 2026 by stuartelden

Émile Benveniste was one of the signatories of the Stockholm appeal on 19 March 1950, against nuclear weapons. The short text of the appeal reads:  We demand the outlawing of atomic weapons as instruments of intimidation and mass murder of … Continue reading →

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Susana Caló & Godofredo Enes Pereira, CERFI – Analysis Everywhere. Militancy, Research, Architecture and Psychiatry – Minor Compositions, May 2026 (print and open access)

Posted on July 11, 2026 by stuartelden

Susana Caló & Godofredo Enes Pereira, CERFI – Analysis Everywhere. Militancy, Research, Architecture and Psychiatry – Minor Compositions, May 2026 Between the radical energies of the 1960s and the shifting terrains of the 1980s, a group in France quietly detonated … Continue reading →

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Georgina Lucas, Massacres in Early Modern Drama – Manchester University Press, May 2026

Posted on July 11, 2026 by stuartelden

Georgina Lucas, Massacres in Early Modern Drama – Manchester University Press, May 2026 Massacres in Early Modern Drama analyses the dynamically ambivalent meanings constructed by the language and action of massacre on the early modern stage. Informed by theories drawn … Continue reading →

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Frederic Jameson, After Year Zero: On Postwar German Thought – ed. Carson Welch, Verso, September 2026

Posted on July 9, 2026 by stuartelden

Frederic Jameson, After Year Zero: On Postwar German Thought – ed. Carson Welch, Verso, September 2026 Jameson’s Legendary Lectures on German thought, together in one volume for the first time. In this series of accessible lectures, Fredric Jameson explores German philosophy … Continue reading →

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Foucault. Une aventure intellectuelle au Collège de France – exhibition and lectures, 30 September 2026-15 January 2027

Posted on July 8, 2026 by stuartelden

Foucault. Une aventure intellectuelle au Collège de France – 30 September 2026-15 January 2027 L’exposition « Foucault. Une aventure intellectuelle au Collège de France » explore le parcours de Michel Foucault dans l’institution où il enseigna de 1970 à 1984. À l’occasion … Continue reading →

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Andrea Brondino, Narrative and History in the Works of Umberto Eco, Carlo Ginzburg, and Wu Ming: Untangling the Strands – Bloomsbury, December 2026

Posted on July 7, 2026 by stuartelden

Andrea Brondino, Narrative and History in the Works of Umberto Eco, Carlo Ginzburg, and Wu Ming: Untangling the Strands – Bloomsbury, December 2026 Using the works of prominent Italian authors of both fiction and nonfiction, this book challenges the established … Continue reading →

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Environments of Planetary Urbanization and Data-Spheres of Planetary Urbanization – two recent books from Neil Brenner’s Urban Theory Lab

Posted on July 6, 2026 by stuartelden

Two recent books from Neil Brenner’s Urban Theory Lab at the University of Chicago. Neil Brenner, Swarnabh Ghosh and Nikos Katsikis, Environments of Planetary Urbanization – Jovis, December 2025 Grga Bašić, Neil Brenner, Mariano Gomez-Luque and Nikos Katsikis, Data-Spheres of … Continue reading →

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Introducing Richard Wilson’s Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers – text of a talk at Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, 27 June 2026

Posted on July 5, 2026 by stuartelden

These are my opening remarks to a roundtable celebrating Richard Wilson’s book Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers: Modern Friends, at an event on Shakespeare and British Inter-war Philosophy (1918-1939) held at Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare on 27 June 2026. A few lines … Continue reading →

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Book review of Ernst Kantorowicz, Radiances: Unpublished Essays on Gods, Kingship, and Images of the State, ed. Robert E. Lerner

Posted on July 3, 2026 by stuartelden

My book review of Ernst Kantorowicz, Radiances: Unpublished Essays on Gods, Kingship, and Images of the State, ed. Robert E. Lerner, is now online first at The English Historical Review. I’m happy to send a copy if you can’t access this, … Continue reading →

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