Category Archives: People

A 1970 French interdisciplinary seminar on structuralism, attended by Foucault, Canguilhem, Bourdieu, Serres, Thom et. al., its published traces and a request for help

Posted on October 12, 2022 by stuartelden

This is a short account of an interesting event and a rather specialist request for help. In the late 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s the Institut collégial européen organised a series of events, most of which were reported in their annual … Continue reading →

Posted in Clémence Ramnoux, Georges Canguilhem, Georges Dumézil, Michel Foucault, Michel Serres, Roland Barthes | 7 Comments

Bruno Latour, ‘Is Europe’s soil changing beneath our feet?’ at geopolitique.eu

Posted on October 10, 2022 by stuartelden

Bruno Latour, ‘Is Europe’s soil changing beneath our feet?’ A late text by Latour, published yesterday at geopolitique.eu I will begin with a text which will seem unusual: Jean Bollack’s translation from the beginning of Oedipus Rex when the priest is addressing … Continue reading →

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Spatial Delight – ten-part podcast about space, society, and power inspired by geographer Doreen Massey

Posted on October 10, 2022 by stuartelden

A ten-part podcast about space, society, and power inspired by geographer Doreen Masseyhttps://thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/spatial-delight/ Spatial Delight is a ten-part podcast about space, society, and power inspired by British geographer Doreen Massey. From a London laundromat to a public park in Berlin, from … Continue reading →

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Bruno Latour (1947-2022) [updated]

Posted on October 9, 2022 by stuartelden

Sorry to hear this news – Libération, L’Obs, Le Monde Update: I’ll add other links here – Radio France, France Bleu The Guardian obituary (and 2020 interview) Adrian Ivakhiv at Immanence; Graham Harman at Object-Orientated Philosophy Graham Harman, Bruno Latour: … Continue reading →

Posted in Bruno Latour, Uncategorized | 7 Comments

Indo-European thought project update 6: beginning the Leverhulme fellowship, my self-imposed guidelines for writing and time-discipline, and some summer cycling and writing

Posted on October 7, 2022 by stuartelden

I’m in the incredibly privileged position of beginning a Leverhulme major research fellowship this week, to work on the Indo-European thought in Twentieth-Century France project. As a note to myself, I’m going to try to work with the guidelines I set myself seven years … Continue reading →

Posted in Cycling, Foucault: The Birth of Power, Georges Dumézil, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault, Shakespearean Territories, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare, Writing | Leave a comment

Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, trans. Derek Coltman, ed. Stuart Elden – HAU books, June 2023

Posted on October 3, 2022 by stuartelden

Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, trans. Derek Coltman, ed. Stuart Elden – HAU books, June 2023. Pre-order details at the University of Chicago Press site, who distribute HAU books. A classic text that develops one … Continue reading →

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Books received – Sevilla-Buitrago, Saberi, TCS, Polity, Gaston,

Posted on September 30, 2022 by stuartelden

Two excellent books I read in manuscript – Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, Against the Commons: A Radical History of Planning and Parastou Saberi, Fearing the Immigrant: Racialization and Urban Policy in Toronto, the new special issue of Theory, Culture & Society, Richard Polt, … Continue reading →

Posted in Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Theory, Culture and Society, urban/urbanisation | 1 Comment

David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Grundrisse – Verso, February 2023

Posted on September 16, 2022 by stuartelden

David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Grundrisse – Verso, February 2023 Update: editor Sebastian Budgen discusses the book here.

Posted in David Harvey, Karl Marx, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Jeff Malpas, In the Brightness of Place: Topological Thinking In and After Heidegger – SUNY Press, September 2022

Posted on September 16, 2022 by stuartelden

Jeff Malpas, In the Brightness of Place: Topological Thinking In and After Heidegger – SUNY Press, September 2022 The work of Jeff Malpas is well-known for its contribution to contemporary thinking about place and space. In the Brightness of Place takes that … Continue reading →

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Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History – Princeton University Press, June 2023

Posted on September 14, 2022 by stuartelden

Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History – Princeton University Press, June 2023 The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. In his career-long engagement with … Continue reading →

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