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Books received – Parkin, Mac Cumhaill & Wiseman, Margulies, Thompson, Demoule, Hubbard, Kitchin & Valentine

Posted on October 19, 2023 by stuartelden

Some recently bought books, along with Jared D. Margulies, The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade, sent by University of Minnesota Press. Key Thinkers on Space and Place is the first edition; I already had the … Continue reading →

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Richard Bourke, Hegel’s World Revolutions – Princeton University Press, October 2023

Posted on October 18, 2023 by stuartelden

Richard Bourke, Hegel’s World Revolutions – Princeton University Press, October 2023 G.W.F. Hegel was widely seen as the greatest philosopher of his age. Ever since, his work has shaped debates about issues as varied as religion, aesthetics and metaphysics. His most … Continue reading →

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Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity – University of Pittsburgh Press, February 2024

Posted on October 17, 2023 by stuartelden

Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity – University of Pittsburgh Press, February 2024 Philosopher Michel Foucault’s cultural criticism crosses disciplines and is well known as an influence on modern conceptions of knowledge and power. Less well known … Continue reading →

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Books received – Renou, Althusser, Safransky, Zumwalt, Woodard

Posted on October 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Mainly bought second-hand for the Indo-European project, along with Sara Safransky, The City after Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit, sent by Duke University Press. The Rosemary LévyZumwalt book is the first part Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, The Japan Lectures: A Transnational Critical Encounter – Routledge, December 2023

Posted on October 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, The Japan Lectures: A Transnational Critical Encounter – Routledge, December 2023 This book makes available, for the first time in English, lectures and interviews that Foucault gave in Japan in 1978, reconstructing their context, and isolating the question of their … Continue reading →

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Lyndsey Stonebridge, We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience – Penguin, January 2024

Posted on October 9, 2023 by stuartelden

Lyndsey Stonebridge, We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience – Penguin, January 2024 (US; UK) The violent unease of today’s world would have been familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, … Continue reading →

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Tehlike, Suç ve Haklar: Michel Foucault ile Jonathan Simon’ın Söyleşisi, trans. Utku Özmakas, Ayrıntı Yayınları, October 2023

Posted on October 6, 2023 by stuartelden

Tehlike, Suç ve Haklar, 2023: Michel Foucault ile Jonathan Simon’ın Söyleşisi, trans. Utku Özmakas, Ayrıntı Yayınları, October 2023 A text I edited from the Berkeley archive, “Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon“, which originally … Continue reading →

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Stefan Kipfer, Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context – Haymarket, September 2023

Posted on October 4, 2023 by stuartelden

Stefan Kipfer, Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context – Haymarket, September 2023 Now in paperback: What do struggles over pipelines in Canada, housing estates in France, and shantytowns in Martinique have in common? In Urban Revolutions, Stefan Kipfer shows … Continue reading →

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Adriana Zaharijevic, Judith Butler and Politics – Edinburgh University Press, August 2023

Posted on September 30, 2023 by stuartelden

Adriana Zaharijevic, Judith Butler and Politics – Edinburgh University Press, August 2023 Just an expensive hardback only at this point unfortunately

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Gilles Deleuze, Sur la peinture – ed. David Lapoujade, Minuit, 2023

Posted on September 29, 2023 by stuartelden

Gilles Deleuze, Sur la peinture – ed. David Lapoujade, Minuit, 2023 [update August 2025: the English translation On Painting is now published] De 1970 à 1987, Gilles Deleuze a donné un cours hebdomadaire à l’université expérimentale de Vincennes, puis de … Continue reading →

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