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Achille Mbembe, Brutalism – Duke University Press, January 2024 (open access Introduction)

Posted on January 6, 2024 by stuartelden

Achille Mbembe, Brutalism – Duke University Press, January 2024 In Brutalism, eminent social and critical theorist Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale. Just as … Continue reading →

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Nivedita Menon, Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South – Duke University Press, May 2024

Posted on January 5, 2024 by stuartelden

Nivedita Menon, Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South – Duke University Press, May 2024 In Secularism as Misdirection, Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism fixes attention to and hyper-visualizes women and religion while obscuring other related … Continue reading →

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Jonathan Wolff & Avner De-Shalt, City of Equals – Oxford University Press, December 2023 (print and open access)

Posted on January 4, 2024 by stuartelden

Jonathan Wolff & Avner De-Shalt, City of Equals – Oxford University Press, December 2023 (print and open access) When we think about equality in the city, we are very likely to think first of the wide and growing divide between … Continue reading →

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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: Akku Quintet, Kinema Anchor and Burden, Kosmonautik Pilgrimage Big Big Train, Ingenious Devices Blaer, Pure Delrei, Desolation and Radiation D’Virgilio, Morse & Jennings, Sophomore Colin Edwin … Continue reading →

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