Category Archives: People

Where to start with reading Peter Sloterdijk? – reading guide updated with recent translations

Posted on April 30, 2020 by stuartelden

Where to start with reading Peter Sloterdijk? – my reading guide has been updated with recent translations from Polity. I’d still suggest beginning with either You Must Change Your Life or In the World Interior of Capital, depending on whether you are … Continue reading →

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“Foucault Was Always Much More Circumspect”: Stuart Elden on Foucault’s Politics and the Rediscovery of His Early Years – 2nd part of Journal of the History of Ideas interview

Posted on April 29, 2020 by stuartelden

The second part of my interview with Jonas Knatz and Anne Schult for the Journal of History of Ideas blog is now available – “Foucault Was Always Much More Circumspect”: Stuart Elden on Foucault’s Politics and the Rediscovery of His … Continue reading →

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Two new Sloterdijk translations from Polity – After God and Infinite Mobilisation

Posted on April 28, 2020 by stuartelden

Two new Sloterdijk translations from Polity – After God, translated by Ian Alexander Moore, and Infinite Mobilisation, translated by Sandra Berjan. Here’s the press description for After God. In his Critique of Cynical Reason, Peter Sloterdijk pursued an enlightenment of the … Continue reading →

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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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