Category Archives: People

Historicizing Foucault: Stuart Elden on Tracing Foucault’s Ideas from Discipline and Punish to the History of Sexuality

Posted on April 27, 2020 by stuartelden

Historicizing Foucault: Stuart Elden on Tracing Foucault’s Ideas from Discipline and Punish to the History of Sexuality – part 1 of a longer interview at the Journal of History of Ideas blog, conducted earlier this month. My thanks to Anne … Continue reading →

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Books received – Veyne, Dumézil, Bataille & Leiris, Eliade, Chapsal

Posted on April 24, 2020 by stuartelden

Trying to keep second-hand booksellers in business… a pile of recently bought books, including Paul Veyne’s memoirs, the English translation of the Bataille-Leiris correspondence, the first volume of Mircea Eliade’s journals, a collection of interviews by Madeleine Chapsal, and some … Continue reading →

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Samantha Rose Hill, Where to start with Hannah Arendt’s work

Posted on April 23, 2020 by stuartelden

People often ask me where they should start with Hannah Arendt's work. These are my most common suggestions. For those who want a taste before committing to the longer works: Politics: CrisesTheory: Between Past & FutureA sense of Arendt: Men … Continue reading →

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Christopher Watkin, “So you want to read Michel Serres? Start here”

Posted on April 23, 2020 by stuartelden

A very useful reading guide from Christopher Watkin, author of the recently published Michel Serres: Figures of Thought from Edinburgh University Press. I recently received an email from someone wanting to get into Michel Serres’s writing in English translation, and asking … Continue reading →

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Georges Bataille’s Oeuvres complètes and English translations – addition of Vols I and II to the list

Posted on April 21, 2020 by stuartelden

I’ve done some further updating to the list of works in Georges Bataille’s Oeuvres complètes and other French collections and the English translations. The main work is the list of articles in Volume I, and the posthumous texts of Volume II, … Continue reading →

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Gunnar Olsson, Arkography: A Grand Tour through the Taken-for-Granted – University of Nebraska Press, May 2020

Posted on April 20, 2020 by stuartelden

Gunnar Olsson, Arkography: A Grand Tour through the Taken-for-Granted – University of Nebraska Press, May 2020 In this fascinating text Gunnar Olsson tells the story of an arkographer, who with Pallas Athene’s blessings, travels down the Red River Valley, navigates … Continue reading →

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Louise Amoore: Our lives with algorithms (video)

Posted on April 17, 2020 by stuartelden

From detecting anomalies in the landscape of medical images to drone footage to the influencing of elections, machine learning algorithms are transforming radically how we make sense in society. Deep neural net algorithms condense the features of a scene to … Continue reading →

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Georges Bataille’s Oeuvres complètes and English translations – list updated and a couple of questions

Posted on April 16, 2020 by stuartelden

I’ve done some updating to the list of works in Georges Bataille’s Oeuvres complètes and other French collections and the English translations. This includes some links to books, a bit of detail on texts in The College of Sociology not in the … Continue reading →

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Books received – Bataille, Eliade, Ballvé, de Waelhens

Posted on April 15, 2020 by stuartelden

Mainly books by Bataille, but also a volume of Mircea Eliade’s journals, the first book in French on Heidegger, originally published in 1942, and Teo Ballvé’s The Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia. Teo kindly sent a copy of his … Continue reading →

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Marta Faustino, Gianfranco Ferraro (eds.), The Late Foucault: Ethical and Political Questions – Bloomsbury, December 2020

Posted on April 14, 2020 by stuartelden

Marta Faustino, Gianfranco Ferraro (eds.), The Late Foucault: Ethical and Political Questions – Bloomsbury, December 2020 Michel Foucault is one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century and one of the leading figures in contemporary Western … Continue reading →

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