Category Archives: People

Books received – Sollers, Kristeva, Shakespeare, Storm, Andrew & Ungar

Posted on June 5, 2026 by stuartelden

Some books bought new or second-hand recently, including some for ‘Sunday History’ posts; the first two volumes of the Arden Shakespeare fourth series; and Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault and the Coils of Critical History, … Continue reading →

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Marc Bloch, Ecrire La société féodale: lettres à Henri Berr, 1921-1943 – ed. Jacqueline Pluet-Despatin, Éditions EHESS, June 2026

Posted on June 3, 2026 by stuartelden

Marc Bloch, Ecrire La société féodale: lettres à Henri Berr, 1921-1943 – ed. Jacqueline Pluet-Despatin, Éditions EHESS, June 2026 En 1939-1940, l’historien Marc Bloch publie les deux volumes de La société féodale dans la collection « L’évolution de l’humanité», chez Albin Michel. Ce livre … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, Éléments de rythmanalyse et autres essais sur les temporalités – new edition, Eterotopia, April 2026

Posted on June 1, 2026 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre, Éléments de rythmanalyse et autres essais sur les temporalités – new edition, Eterotopia, April 2026 Thanks to John Raimo for this link. As far as I can tell, this has the same content as the 2019 edition of … Continue reading →

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Henry Somers-Hall, Reading A Thousand Plateaus: Adventures in Nomad Thought – Edinburgh University Press, May 2026

Posted on June 1, 2026 by stuartelden

Henry Somers-Hall, Reading A Thousand Plateaus: Adventures in Nomad Thought – Edinburgh University Press, May 2026 Interview with Brent Adkins about the book

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Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois and the Question of Fascism

Posted on May 31, 2026 by stuartelden

Most of Georges Bataille’s earliest writings were literary, and between 1929 and the early 1930s he was the editor of Documents, an art and literary journal (scans are available on Gallica). Most of his articles there were included in the first … Continue reading →

Posted in Alberto Toscano, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Bataille, Georges Dumézil, Maurice Blanchot, Pierre Klossowski, Politics, Roger Caillois, Sunday Histories, Walter Benjamin | 2 Comments

Yannis Flytzanis ed. Henri Lefebvre – Space, Philosophy and the Political – Bloomsbury, July 2026

Posted on May 30, 2026 by stuartelden

Yannis Flytzanis ed. Henri Lefebvre – Space, Philosophy and the Political – Bloomsbury, July 2026 A fresh interdisciplinary examination of the thought of Henri Lefebvre which sheds light on the politics of utopia and commoning through the examination of the wide-ranging … Continue reading →

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Heidegger, Space and the New Translation of Being and Time

Posted on May 24, 2026 by stuartelden

Cyril Welch’s version of Heidegger’s Being and Time: An Annotated Translation has been published by Yale University Press, in the United States in February, and the United Kingdom in May 2026. A fuller discussion of the translation, its choices and terminology, and … Continue reading →

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Trevor Paglen, How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI – Verso, May 2026

Posted on May 23, 2026 by stuartelden

Trevor Paglen, How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI – Verso, May 2026 We once looked at pictures. Then, with the advent of computer vision and machine learning, pictures started looking at us. By the award-winning artist, filmmaker … Continue reading →

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Audio recording of Foucault’s interview with Charles Ruas about Raymond Roussel now online

Posted on May 22, 2026 by stuartelden

The audio recording of Foucault’s interview with Charles Ruas about Raymond Roussel is now online. Foucault did this interview late in life, about one of his least-known books, translated into English as Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond … Continue reading →

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Eli B. Lichtenstein, Partisan Genealogy: Foucault’s Critique of Penal Power – SUNY Press, November 2026

Posted on May 21, 2026 by stuartelden

Eli B. Lichtenstein, Partisan Genealogy: Foucault’s Critique of Penal Power – SUNY Press, November 2026 Just a very expensive hardback listed at the moment, unfortunately. [Update: in a comment below, Eli says the paperback is due around May 2027] Presents … Continue reading →

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