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Jacques Derrida, Thinking What Comes, eds. Geoffrey Bennington, Kas Saghafi, two volumes, Edinburgh University Press, March 2024

Posted on May 1, 2024 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Thinking What Comes, eds. Geoffrey Bennington, Kas Saghafi, two volumes, Edinburgh University Press, March 2024 – volume 1; volume 2 In two volumes, Geoffrey Bennington and Kas Saghafi present the majority of Jacques Derrida’s untranslated, and previously uncollected, essays and interviews. … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 19: back to Dumézil, politics, and Benveniste in Persia and Afghanistan

Posted on April 30, 2024 by stuartelden

Since the last update on this project, I have begun work on a chapter on Dumézil’s career from the late 1930s to the late 1940s. This is another fascinating period, partly because of the range of books he published – 14 in 11 … Continue reading →

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David Freedberg and Claudia Wedepohl (eds.), Aby Warburg 150: Work, Legacy, Promise – De Gruyter, April 2024

Posted on April 28, 2024 by stuartelden

David Freedberg and Claudia Wedepohl (eds.), Aby Warburg 150: Work, Legacy, Promise – De Gruyter, April 2024 Aby Warburg is regarded as one of the great pioneers of modern cultural studies. This book brings together texts by many of the most … Continue reading →

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Books received – Chevallier, Behrent, Testa, Bloch & Febvre, Kadercan, Barthes, Koyré

Posted on April 27, 2024 by stuartelden

Some books I’ve mentioned here recently – Philippe Chevallier, Michel Foucault et le christianisme: Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée; Michael C. Behrent, Becoming Foucault: The Poitiers Years; Federico Testa (ed.), Canguilhem beyond Epistemology and the History of Science – a special issue of Revue … Continue reading →

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Ben Clift, The Office for Budget Responsibility and the Politics of Technocratic Economic Governance – Oxford University Press, March 2023 and Faculti interview

Posted on April 25, 2024 by stuartelden

Ben Clift, The Office for Budget Responsibility and the Politics of Technocratic Economic Governance – Oxford University Press, March 2023 The Office for Budget Responsibility and the Politics of Technocratic Economic Governanceis about the politics of economic ideas and technocratic … Continue reading →

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Jo van Every, ‘You don’t have to start with an abstract’

Posted on April 25, 2024 by stuartelden

Jo van Every, ‘You don’t have to start with an abstract‘ Some interesting discussion, particularly in terms of highlighting multiple ways to work, rather than a single way to begin. Do you use conferences as a way to start new … Continue reading →

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“The Architectural Gift,” a conversation between architectural historian Łukasz Stanek and Places editor Frances Richard

Posted on April 24, 2024 by stuartelden

 “The Architectural Gift,” a conversation between architectural historian Łukasz Stanek and Places editor Frances Richard Gifted buildings are potent mechanisms of geopolitical reshuffling, premised on an uneven power relation between giver and receiver. How do such exchanges shape cities in transition? For … Continue reading →

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Matthew Beaumont, How We Walk: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body – Verso, March 2024, and discussion at the Verso podcast

Posted on April 23, 2024 by stuartelden

Matthew Beaumont, How We Walk: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body – Verso, March 2024 You can tell a lot about people by how they walk. Matthew Beaumont argues that our standing, walking body holds the social traumas … Continue reading →

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Andy Merrifield, “Gramsci and his friend ‘S'”

Posted on April 23, 2024 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield, “Gramsci and his friend ‘S’“ A post exploring the generational links between Merrifield, David Harvey, Piero Sraffa and Antonio Gramsci. I was in New York recently, where I once lived, some twenty-years back, there to visit my old … Continue reading →

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Immanuel Kant’s 300th birthday – and some thoughts on Elden and Mendieta (eds.), Reading Kant’s Geography (2011)

Posted on April 22, 2024 by stuartelden

It’s Immanuel Kant’s 300th birthday today. I’ve not written much on Kant, but he was the topic of perhaps my favourite of the essay collections I’ve edited or co-edited – Stuart Elden and Eduardo Mendieta (eds.), Reading Kant’s Geography, SUNY … Continue reading →

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