Category Archives: People

Émile Benveniste, Problèmes de linguistique générale – Problems in General Linguistics and other English translations

Posted on December 3, 2024 by stuartelden

Émile Benveniste’s Problèmes de linguistique générale was published in two volumes in 1966 and 1974 by Gallimard, and later reprinted in the Tel series (volumes 1 and 2). The first volume brought together essays from 1939 to 1964, and was compiled … Continue reading →

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Lynne Huffer, “Order and Archive: A Foucault Abecedary”, boundary 2, 2024

Posted on December 2, 2024 by stuartelden

Lynne Huffer’s extraordinary essay, “Order and Archive: A Foucault Abecedary“, has just been published in boundary 2, Vol 51 No 4, 2024 (requires subscription unfortunately). Update January 2025: Lynne is now on Instagram and has posted several tiles relating to … Continue reading →

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Georges Canguilhem et l’écologie – 3-5 December 2024, Université Paris 8

Posted on November 27, 2024 by stuartelden

Georges Canguilhem et l’écologie – 3-5 December 2024, Université Paris 8

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“Indo-European Thought at the Collège de France”, Social Anthropology Seminar, University of St Andrews, 29 November 2024 (online)

Posted on November 26, 2024 by stuartelden

“Indo-European Thought at the Collège de France“, Social Anthropology Seminar, University of St Andrews, 29 November 2024, 2pm (online) On Friday I’ll be speaking about my current research.

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Books received – Moyn, Pérez, Herring, Vatulescu, Marx, Foucault

Posted on November 25, 2024 by stuartelden

Some books bought recently. Samuel Moyn, Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times; Amín Pérez, Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle, trans. Andrew Brown; Emily Herring, Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson … Continue reading →

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Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Three Tracts on City Government and Related Writings, ed. and trans. George Garnett and Magnus Ryan – Cambridge University Press, 2024

Posted on November 21, 2024 by stuartelden

Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Three Tracts on City Government and Related Writings, ed. and trans. George Garnett and Magnus Ryan – Cambridge University Press, 2024 The medieval jurist Bartolus of Sassoferrato (d. 1357) has long been accorded seminal importance by historians of political thought. This volume … Continue reading →

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Edward Said Memorial Lecture – Étienne Balibar, “Geometries of Imperialism in the 21st Century”, November 2024 (video)

Posted on November 20, 2024 by stuartelden

Edward Said Memorial Lecture – Étienne Balibar, “Geometries of Imperialism in the 21st Century”, November 2024 (video) The Department of English and Comparative Literature hosted in November 2024 the Edward Said Memorial Lecture, titled ‘ Geometries of Imperialism in the … Continue reading →

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The RTE interview of Gillian Rose (audio)

Posted on November 19, 2024 by stuartelden

The RTE interview of Gillian Rose (audio) Thanks to Robert Lucas Scott for the link. Update 21 November: I should have given the link to the transcription published in Theory, Culture and Society in 2008, edited by Vincent Lloyd. It’s … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Foucault, Derrida, Arendt and Scholem

Posted on November 18, 2024 by stuartelden

Books sent in recompense for review work for University of Chicago Press – three of the four volumes of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Mythologies (the other one is out of print), Michel Foucault, What is Critique? and The Culture of the Self, … Continue reading →

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Derrida at NYU, 21 November 2024 – online and in-person

Posted on November 17, 2024 by stuartelden

Derrida at NYU, 21 November 2024 – online and in-person

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