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Georges Bataille, The Limit of the Useful, translated by Cory Knutson and Thomas Elliott – MIT Press, February 2023 (and interview with translators)

Posted on January 30, 2023 by stuartelden

Georges Bataille, The Limit of the Useful, translated by Cory Knutson and Thomas Elliott – MIT Press, February 2023 Update: now published; there is an interview with the translators at the Acid Horizon podcast. Forthcoming translation of this early text, … Continue reading →

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William Walters and Martina Tazzioli (eds.), Handbook on Governmentality – Edward Elgar, April 2023

Posted on January 28, 2023 by stuartelden

William Walters and Martina Tazzioli (eds.), Handbook on Governmentality – Edward Elgar, April 2023 My piece in here is entitled “The Yoke of Law and the Lustre of Glory: Foucault and Dumézil on Sovereignty”. It’s the first in a series … Continue reading →

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A big day for Lacan publications… Premier écrits, Seminar XIV: La Loqique du fantasme, English translation of Seminar XIX: Or Worse, Points edition of Seminar V

Posted on January 27, 2023 by stuartelden

27 January 2023 seems to be a big day for Lacan publications…                  Premier écrits – on which I say a little here Le Séminaire Livre XIV: La Logique du fantasme, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller – the first seminar to be published … Continue reading →

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Carlo Ginzburg: ‘In history as in cinema, every close-up implies an off-screen scene’

Posted on January 26, 2023 by stuartelden

Carlo Ginzburg: ‘In history as in cinema, every close-up implies an off-screen scene’ – Verso blog translated by David Fernbach from a text in Le Monde des Livres

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Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Lacan, Tamm, Geoghegan, Barthes

Posted on January 23, 2023 by stuartelden

A few books bought recently, including Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory and Jacques Lacan’s The Object Relation, recently out in paperback.

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Alyssa Battistoni, “Latour’s Metamorphosis”, New Left Review Sidecar (open access)

Posted on January 21, 2023 by stuartelden

Alyssa Battistoni, “Latour’s Metamorphosis“, New Left Review Sidecar (open access)

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Jacques Lacan, Le Séminaire Livre XIV: La Logique du fantasme, ed. Jacques-Alain Miller – Seuil, January 2023

Posted on January 20, 2023 by stuartelden

Jacques Lacan, Le Séminaire Livre XIV: La Logique du fantasme, ed. Jacques-Alain Miller – Seuil, January 2023 After a long gap, and some legal problems, the publication of the seminar is ongoing once again: « Logique du fantasme », l’expression … Continue reading →

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Elisabetta Basso’s Young Foucault reviewed in The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (behind paywall; some excerpts here)

Posted on January 18, 2023 by stuartelden

I have a review of Elisabetta Basso’s excellent Young Foucault: The Lille manuscripts on psychopathology, phenomenology, and anthropology, 1952–1955, translated by Marie Satya McDonough (Columbia University Press, 2022) in The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. The review is unfortunately … Continue reading →

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La Pensée 410 – special issue on Henri Lefebvre

Posted on January 13, 2023 by stuartelden

La Pensée 410 – special issue on Henri Lefebvre Les 24 et 25 mars 2022 s’est tenu à Paris un colloque, organisé par La Pensée, le Groupe d’études du matérialisme rationnel et la Fondation Gabriel Péri, consacré à l’étude et à l’hommage … Continue reading →

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Italo Calvino, The Written World and the Unwritten World: Collected Non-Fiction, translated by Ann Goldstein – Penguin, January 2023

Posted on January 8, 2023 by stuartelden

Italo Calvino, The Written World and the Unwritten World: Collected Non-Fiction, translated by Ann Goldstein – Penguin, January 2023

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