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The 13/13 Essays – material linked to the seminars of The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought

Posted on December 9, 2023 by stuartelden

For several years Bernard Harcourt and colleagues at The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought have been running a series of 13/13 seminars. The seminars usually have short essays by participants available online, and now they are being collected on … Continue reading →

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Catherine Malabou, Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy – Polity, trans. Carolyn Shread, November 2023

Posted on December 4, 2023 by stuartelden

Catherine Malabou, Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy – Polity, trans. Carolyn Shread, November 2023 Many contemporary philosophers – including Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Giorgio Agamben – ascribe an ethical or political value to anarchy, but none ever called themselves … Continue reading →

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Bruce Lincoln, Secrets, Lies, and Consequences: A Great Scholar’s Hidden Past and his Protégé’s Unsolved Murder – Oxford University Press, March 2024

Posted on December 3, 2023 by stuartelden

Bruce Lincoln, Secrets, Lies, and Consequences: A Great Scholar’s Hidden Past and his Protégé’s Unsolved Murder – Oxford University Press, March 2024 The tale of a legendary scholar, an unsolved murder, and the mysterious documents that may connect themIn early … Continue reading →

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Books received – Mauss, Ginzburg, Amin, Lefebvre, Foucault, Jackson, Danielsson

Posted on December 1, 2023 by stuartelden

A mix of recently bought books along with Ash Amin, After Nativism: Belonging in an Age of Intolerance, sent by Polity, and the long-awaited hardback of Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography. I think I’ve mentioned all the … Continue reading →

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Gillian Rose, Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory – Verso, August 2024 

Posted on December 1, 2023 by stuartelden

Gillian Rose, Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory – Verso, August 2024  Marxist Modernism presents for the first time Gillian Rose’s 1979 lectures on the Frankfurt School, art, and politics. Delivered soon after the publication of her now … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 15: A first trip to the Paris archives since the spring and more archive work in the UK

Posted on November 30, 2023 by stuartelden

I’m now back at work full time, though very grateful to be free of teaching and administrative duties, and I am feeling much better and more like myself. I was in Paris for two weeks this month, which was the … Continue reading →

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The Theory Variations: An Interview with Fredric Jameson by Jason Demers

Posted on November 29, 2023 by stuartelden

The Theory Variations: An Interview with Fredric Jameson by Jason Demers (open access) Thanks to Robert Tally for the link. Some interesting discussion of the early days of ‘French theory’ in the United States.

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Charlotte Thevenet, Derrida et ses doubles – Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, November 2023

Posted on November 26, 2023 by stuartelden

Charlotte Thevenet, Derrida et ses doubles – Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, November 2023 Qu’on la pourfende, la déplore ou la célèbre, l’obscurité du style de Derrida semble mettre d’accord disciples et adversaires du philosophe. Plutôt que de prendre parti, ce … Continue reading →

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Tilman Schwarze, Space, Urban Politics, and Everyday Life: Henri Lefebvre and U.S. City – Springer, November 2023

Posted on November 23, 2023 by stuartelden

Tilman Schwarze, Space, Urban Politics, and Everyday Life: Henri Lefebvre and U.S. City – Springer, November 2023 This Book develops a novel and innovative methodological framework for operationalising Henri Lefebvre’s work for empirical research on the U.S. city. Building on … Continue reading →

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Raymond Ruyer, Cybernetics and the Origin of Information, Rowman & Littlefield, December 2023

Posted on November 22, 2023 by stuartelden

Raymond Ruyer, Cybernetics and the Origin of Information, trans. Amélie Berger-Soraruff, Andrew Iliadis, Daniel W. Smith and Ashley Woodward, Rowman & Littlefield, December 2023 [October 2025: link updated to the Bloomsbury site. They also publish the earlier translation The Genesis of Living … Continue reading →

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