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Edward S. Casey, Turning Emotion Inside Out: Affective Life Beyond the Subject – Northwestern University Press, November 2021

Posted on August 13, 2021 by stuartelden

Edward S. Casey, Turning Emotion Inside Out: Affective Life Beyond the Subject – Northwestern University Press, November 2021 In Turning Emotion Inside Out, Edward S. Casey challenges the commonplace assumption that our emotions are to be located inside our minds, brains, … Continue reading →

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Acid Horizon podcast: ‘Foucault (With Hair)’ – discussion of The Early Foucault

Posted on August 11, 2021 by stuartelden

Acid Horizon podcast: ‘Foucault (With Hair)’ – discussion of The Early Foucault On this episode, Adam and Will are joined by Stuart Elden to discuss his latest book, The Early Foucault. We discuss the academic experiences and personal relationships that were … Continue reading →

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Books received – Hill, Barthes, King, Chamayou, Keltner, Clark & Szerszynski, Nail

Posted on August 3, 2021 by stuartelden

Some books in recompense for review work for Polity, Thomas Nail’s Theory of the Earth, sent by Stanford, and Samantha Rose Hill’s Hannah Arendt.

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 8: a nearly complete draft of the chapter on art, and progress with literature and linguistics

Posted on July 30, 2021 by stuartelden

One excellent piece of advice I picked up sometime in June [here] was that while it might make sense to think of the autumn term as the beginning of the academic year, for research it makes sense to think of … Continue reading →

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Panagiotis Sotiris, A Philosophy for Communism: Rethinking Althusser – Haymarket, July 2021

Posted on July 30, 2021 by stuartelden

Panagiotis Sotiris, A Philosophy for Communism: Rethinking Althusser – Haymarket, July 2021 In A Philosophy for Communism: Rethinking Althusser, Panagiotis Sotiris undertakes a reading of the work of the French philosopher centered upon his deeply political conception of philosophy. Althusser’s endeavour is … Continue reading →

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Books received – Klossowski, Borges, Rancière, Lukács

Posted on July 28, 2021 by stuartelden

A few books picked up second-hand, and three by Lukács from Verso.

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Antonio Gramsci, Subaltern Social Groups: A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25 – Columbia University Press, August 2021

Posted on July 28, 2021 by stuartelden

Antonio Gramsci, Subaltern Social Groups: A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25 – edited and translated by Joseph A. Buttigieg and Marcus E. Green, Columbia University Press, 2021 Antonio Gramsci is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in … Continue reading →

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A minor note on the two versions of Foucault’s ‘This is Not a Pipe’, and the problems of the translation in Essential Works

Posted on July 8, 2021 by stuartelden

Foucault’s text on René Magritte, “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”, was published first in French in 1968 (reprinted in Dits et écrits as text 53), and then in a revised and expanded form as a book in 1973. The 1973 book was … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, ‘Terrain, Politics, History’ – Dialogues in Human Geography article with responses from Gastón Gordillo, Kimberley Peters, Bruno Latour, Rachael Squire and Deborah P. Dixon, and a reply (most open access)

Posted on July 6, 2021 by stuartelden

My 2019 Dialogues in Human Geography lecture, ‘Terrain, Politics, History‘ has been published in the journal (open access). The responses are by: Gastón Gordillo, The power of terrain: The affective materiality of planet Earth in the age of revolution (open … Continue reading →

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Alain Brossat et Daniele Lorenzini (dir.), Foucault et… Les liaisons dangereuses de Michel Foucault – Vrin, August 2021

Posted on July 2, 2021 by stuartelden

Alain Brossat et Daniele Lorenzini (dir.), Foucault et… Les liaisons dangereuses de Michel Foucault – Vrin, August 2021 Michel Foucault est un philosophe qui, loin de plancher sur d’autres philosophes, avance avec et contre eux – et contre pas moins … Continue reading →

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