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Journal of the History of Ideas blog – year in review

Posted on January 3, 2024 by stuartelden

Journal of the History of Ideas blog – year in review Includes interviews, article fora, short essays As another year is drawing to a close, we are looking back on some of the highlights we have published over the course … Continue reading →

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Arundhati Roy, The Architecture of Modern Empire: Conversations with David Barsamian – Haymarket, March 2024, foreword by Naomi Klein

Posted on January 3, 2024 by stuartelden

Arundhati Roy, The Architecture of Modern Empire: Conversations with David Barsamian – Haymarket, March 2024 Available in print and e-book – and good to see the e-book priced much lower than the physical book. A revelatory and wide-ranging series of … Continue reading →

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“Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon” – English text of the Turkish preface

Posted on January 2, 2024 by stuartelden

“Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon” was published in Theory, Culture & Society in 2017. The transcribed discussion was edited and introduced by me and there is an afterword by Jonathan Simon. This article … Continue reading →

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Some of my highlights on Progressive Geographies in 2023

Posted on January 1, 2024 by stuartelden

I didn’t publish much this past year – The Archaeology of Foucault has a 2023 date but was officially published in December 2022, and the special issue of Theory, Culture and Society on Foucault was completed some time before. I … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 16: archive work in the UK and working around the British Library disruption

Posted on December 31, 2023 by stuartelden

With the British Library still offline and so largely unusable, and without a trip to Paris this month, I’ve mainly been working at home, though with a few side trips to libraries and archives in the UK. SOAS has a special collections … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2023

Posted on December 31, 2023 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked. The criteria was that they were published in that year, and that I read and liked them. This means that good books which came out … Continue reading →

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The music of my 2023

Posted on December 30, 2023 by stuartelden

The music I enjoyed most from 2023, either bought in physical form, often through Burning Shed, or digitally through bandcamp: For previous years: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012. I didn’t get to see much music live, and missed a few due to illness, but … Continue reading →

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Simone Weil, Basic Writings, eds. D.K. Levy and Marina Barabas, Routledge, December 2023

Posted on December 26, 2023 by stuartelden

Simone Weil, Basic Writings, eds. D.K. Levy and Marina Barabas, Routledge, December 2023 Simone Weil is one of the most profound and thought-provoking thinkers of the 20th century. A teacher, factory and farm labourer, a political activist at home and … Continue reading →

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Dawn (Winter 1879/80–Spring 1881) – trans. J.M. Baker, Jr. and Christian Hertel, Stanford University Press, December 2023

Posted on December 25, 2023 by stuartelden

Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Dawn (Winter 1879/80–Spring 1881) – trans. J.M. Baker, Jr. and Christiane Hertel, Stanford University Press, December 2023 This volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsche’s unpublished notes from late 1879 to … Continue reading →

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Fascism Vol 12 No 2 Special Issue: (Re)Living Greece and Rome: Performances of Classical Antiquity under Fascism, edited by Eleftheria Ioannidou, Giovanna Di Martino and Sara Troiani

Posted on December 24, 2023 by stuartelden

Fascism Vol 12 No 2 Special Issue: (Re)Living Greece and Rome: Performances of Classical Antiquity under Fascism, edited by Eleftheria Ioannidou, Giovanna Di Martino and Sara Troiani The papers are currently available open access.

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