Category Archives: Uncategorized

Philipp Ther, How the West Lost the Peace: The Great Transformation Since the Cold War, trans. Jessica Spengler – Polity, May 2023

Posted on September 5, 2023 by stuartelden

Philipp Ther, How the West Lost the Peace: The Great Transformation Since the Cold War, trans. Jessica Spengler – Polity, May 2023 When the Berlin Wall was stormed and the Soviet Union fell apart, the West and above all the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Zygmunt Bauman, My Life in Fragments, ed. Izabela Wagner, trans. Katarzyna Bartoszyńska – Polity, June 2023

Posted on September 3, 2023 by stuartelden

Zygmunt Bauman, My Life in Fragments, ed. Izabela Wagner, trans. Katarzyna Bartoszyńska – Polity, June 2023 Zygmunt Bauman was one of the great social thinkers of our time: inventor of the idea of liquid modernity, he transformed our way of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Danny Dorling, Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State – Verso, September 2023

Posted on September 2, 2023 by stuartelden

Danny Dorling, Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State – Verso, September 2023 Britain was once the leading economy in Europe; it is now the most unequal. In Shattered Nation, leading geographer and author of Inequality and the 1% shows … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Sharad Chari, Gramsci at Sea – University of Minnesota Press Forerunners, August 2023

Posted on September 1, 2023 by stuartelden

Sharad Chari, Gramsci at Sea – University of Minnesota Press Forerunners, August 2023 Exploring how the crisis of the world ocean is produced by capitalism and imperialism This succinct work reads Antonio Gramsci’s writings on the sea, focused in his … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 13: work on Benveniste, Saussure and in UK archives, a seminar on the research, and a brief health update

Posted on August 31, 2023 by stuartelden

In an earlier post here I briefly mentioned the medical issues that put me in hospital for three weeks in July. The operation was a success and I am making a good, though slow, recovery. I have been at home for a … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Ernst Kantorowicz, Ferdinand de Saussure, Georges Dumézil, Mircea Eliade, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Noémie Ndiaye and Lia Markey (eds.), Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World – ACMRS Press, April 2023 (print and open access)

Posted on August 30, 2023 by stuartelden

Noémie Ndiaye and Lia Markey (eds.), Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World – ACMRS Press, April 2023 (print and open access) The capacious visual archive studied in this volume includes a trove … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Johannes Angermuller and Philippe Blanchard, Careers of the Professoriate: Academic Pathways of the Linguists and Sociologists in Germany, France and the UK – Palgrave, 2023

Posted on August 28, 2023 by stuartelden

Johannes Angermuller and Philippe Blanchard, Careers of the Professoriate: Academic Pathways of the Linguists and Sociologists in Germany, France and the UK – Palgrave, 2023 This book examines career patterns of the professoriate. Professors may appear as specialised individualists in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Ian Klinke, Life, Earth, Colony: Friedrich Ratzel’s Necropolitical Geography – University of Michigan Press, August 2023 (print and open access)

Posted on August 27, 2023 by stuartelden

Ian Klinke, Life, Earth, Colony: Friedrich Ratzel’s Necropolitical Geography – University of Michigan Press, August 2023 The book is available in print and open access. Life, Earth, Colony explores the ideas, life, and historical significance of German zoologist turned geographer Friedrich Ratzel … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Books received – Calvino, Malpas & White, Balibar, Villamizar, González and Astudillo, Saussure, Cheng

Posted on August 26, 2023 by stuartelden

Some books bought or sent recently – Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Jeff Malpas and Kenneth White, The Fundamental Field, Étienne Balibar’s Écrits pour Althusser, Carlos Salamanca Villamizar, Gabriela González and Francisco Astudillo (eds.), Estudios sobre la espacialización … Continue reading →

Posted in Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Etienne Balibar, Italo Calvino, Jeff Malpas, Louis Althusser, My Publications, Neil Brenner, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Gregory J. Seigworth & Carolyn Pedwell (eds.), The Affect Theory Reader 2 – Duke University Press, October 2023

Posted on August 25, 2023 by stuartelden

Gregory J. Seigworth & Carolyn Pedwell (eds.), The Affect Theory Reader 2 – Duke University Press, October 2023 The Introduction is available open access here. Building on the foundational Affect Theory Reader, this new volume gathers together contemporary scholarship that highlights … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment