Category Archives: People

Stuart Elden, ‘Terrain, Politics, History’ – Dialogues in Human Geography article with responses from Gastón Gordillo, Kimberley Peters and Deborah P. Dixon (and more to come)

Posted on March 23, 2021 by stuartelden

My 2019 Dialogues in Human Geography lecture, ‘Terrain, Politics, History‘ has been published online first (open access). The responses are beginning to appear too. The ones available so far are Gastón Gordillo, The power of terrain: The affective materiality of … Continue reading →

Posted in Bruno Latour, Gaston Gordillo, terrain, Territory | 1 Comment

Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, new translation of all three volumes – Routledge, September 2020

Posted on March 18, 2021 by stuartelden

Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, new translation of all three volumes – Routledge, September 2020 I missed this when it was published last year, but this looks a major undertaking. There is a review in the New York … Continue reading →

Posted in Ernst Cassirer | Leave a comment

Timothy Brennan, Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said – Bloomsbury, March 2021 – and discussion on BBC 3: Free Thinking

Posted on March 16, 2021 by stuartelden

Timothy Brennan, Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said – Bloomsbury, March 2021 Rana Mitter talks to Timothy Brennan and the writers Ahdaf Soueif, Pankaj Mishra and Marina Warner on BBC 3: Free Thinking Drawing on extensive archival sources … Continue reading →

Posted in Edward Said | Leave a comment

Books received – Nietzsche, Lacan, Dodds, Balibar, Wall, Dumézil

Posted on March 16, 2021 by stuartelden

Some older second-hand books, along with Klaus Dodds, Border Wars: The Conflicts that will Define our Future, two books by Étienne Balibar including his Histoire Interminable, and Illan rua Wall, Law and Disorder: Sovereignty, Protest, Atmosphere.

Posted in Etienne Balibar, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Dumézil, Jacques Lacan | Leave a comment

Norbert Guterman and Leo Löwenthal, Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator – Verso, April 2021

Posted on March 16, 2021 by stuartelden

Norbert Guterman and Leo Löwenthal, Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator – Verso, April 2021 Foreword by Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse, Introduction by Alberto Toscano Good to see this reissued by Verso. Among … Continue reading →

Posted in Henri Lefebvre, Herbert Marcuse | Leave a comment

Henri Lefebvre, From the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography – a new collection of writings forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press, 2022

Posted on March 15, 2021 by stuartelden

Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton – Henri Lefebvre, From the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography – a new collection of writings forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press, 2022 [update: the University of Minnesota Press page for On the Rural is here] (cross-posted … Continue reading →

Posted in Adam David Morton, Henri Lefebvre, Karl Marx, Neil Brenner | 5 Comments

Jean Cavaillès, On Logic and the Theory of Science – Urbanomic, 2021

Posted on March 12, 2021 by stuartelden

Jean Cavaillès, On Logic and the Theory of Science – Urbanomic, 2021 (UK sales; US sales) Translated by Knox Pedenand Robin Mackay. Preface by Gaston Bachelard. Introductory notice by Georges Canguilhem and Charles Ehresmann. Introduction by Knox Peden. In this … Continue reading →

Posted in Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem | Leave a comment

University Of London Institute In Paris videos – Étienne Balibar, Deborah Cowen, Achille Mbembe

Posted on March 10, 2021 by stuartelden

University Of London Institute In Paris videos – Étienne Balibar, Deborah Cowen, Achille Mbembe

Posted in Achille Mbembe, Etienne Balibar, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Books received – Edelstein, Geroulanos & Wheatley, Balzac, Lévi-Strauss, Lichnerowicz et. al., Mallory & Adams, Derrida

Posted on March 5, 2021 by stuartelden

A mix of recently received books – the new translations of Balzac’s Lost Souls and Derrida’s Clang from University of Minnesota Press in recompense for review work, and Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos & Natascha Wheatley (eds.), Power and Time: Temporalities … Continue reading →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault | Leave a comment

Grégoire Chamayou, The Ungovernable Society: A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism – Polity, March 2021

Posted on March 4, 2021 by stuartelden

Grégoire Chamayou, The Ungovernable Society: A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism – Polity, translated by Andrew Brown, March 2021 Rebellion was in the air. Workers were on strike, students were demonstrating on campuses, discipline was breaking down. No relation of domination was … Continue reading →

Posted in Grégoire Chamayou | 1 Comment