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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 14: returning to work, tracking Benveniste’s teaching, and working with archives including the Aurel Stein collections in London

Posted on October 31, 2023 by stuartelden

I have now been back at work for a few weeks, initially beginning half-time and gradually increasing what I can do. The support I have had from my department for a long period off work and a phased transition has … Continue reading →

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Albert Camus, Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World – ed. Alice Kaplan, trans. Ryan Bloom, University of Chicago Press, March 2023

Posted on October 30, 2023 by stuartelden

Albert Camus, Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World – ed. Alice Kaplan, trans. Ryan Bloom, University of Chicago Press, March 2023 Albert Camus’s lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South … Continue reading →

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Josephine Quinn, How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History – Bloomsbury, February 2024

Posted on October 29, 2023 by stuartelden

Josephine Quinn, How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History – Bloomsbury, February 2024 What does history look like without ‘civilisations’? Josephine Quinn calls for a major reassessment of the West and the concepts that define it. The West, … Continue reading →

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Søren Mau, Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital – Verso, January 2023

Posted on October 27, 2023 by stuartelden

Søren Mau, Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital – Verso, January 2023 Despite insoluble contradictions, intense volatility and fierce resistance, the crisis-ridden capitalism of the 21st century lingers on. To understand capital’s paradoxical expansion and … Continue reading →

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Jason Read, The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work – Verso, February 2024

Posted on October 25, 2023 by stuartelden

Jason Read, The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work – Verso, February 2024 In a world of declining wages, working conditions, and instability, the response for many has been to work harder, increasing hours and finding various ways … Continue reading →

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Sergei Prozorov, Biopolitics After Truth: Knowledge, Power and Democratic Life – Edinburgh University Press, May 2023 (print and open access)

Posted on October 23, 2023 by stuartelden

Sergei Prozorov, Biopolitics After Truth: Knowledge, Power and Democratic Life – Edinburgh University Press, May 2023 (print and open access)

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John Brewer, Volcanic: Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions – Yale University Press, November 2023

Posted on October 22, 2023 by stuartelden

John Brewer, Volcanic: Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions – Yale University Press, November 2023 A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous eruption of 79CE. … Continue reading →

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Susan Bredlau and Talia Welsh (eds.), Normality, Abnormality, and Pathology in Merleau-Ponty, SUNY Press, August 2022

Posted on October 21, 2023 by stuartelden

Susan Bredlau and Talia Welsh (eds.), Normality, Abnormality, and Pathology in Merleau-Ponty, SUNY Press, August 2022 Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s work draws our attention to how the body is always our way of having a world and never merely a thing in … Continue reading →

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Jared D. Margulies, The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade – University of Minnesota Press, November 2023

Posted on October 20, 2023 by stuartelden

Jared D. Margulies, The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade – University of Minnesota Press, November 2023 Cacti and succulents are phenomenally popular worldwide among plant enthusiasts, despite being among the world’s most threatened species. The … Continue reading →

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Books received – Parkin, Mac Cumhaill & Wiseman, Margulies, Thompson, Demoule, Hubbard, Kitchin & Valentine

Posted on October 19, 2023 by stuartelden

Some recently bought books, along with Jared D. Margulies, The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade, sent by University of Minnesota Press. Key Thinkers on Space and Place is the first edition; I already had the … Continue reading →

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