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Benjamin Tallis, Identities, Borderscapes, Orders: (In)Security, (Im)Mobility and Crisis in the EU and Ukraine – Springer, February 2023

Posted on April 6, 2023 by stuartelden

Benjamin Tallis, Identities, Borderscapes, Orders: (In)Security, (Im)Mobility and Crisis in the EU and Ukraine – Springer, February 2023 This book provides a pre-history of Russia’s war on Ukraine and Europe’s relations to it, illuminating the deep roots of the EU’s … Continue reading →

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Natasha Wheatley, The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty – Princeton University Press, June 2023

Posted on April 4, 2023 by stuartelden

Natasha Wheatley, The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty – Princeton University Press, June 2023 Sprawled across the heartlands of Europe, the Habsburg Empire resisted all the standard theories of singular sovereignty. The … Continue reading →

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Peter T. Struck and Sophia Rosenfeld (eds.), A Cultural History of Ideas – Bloomsbury, six volumes, November 2022

Posted on April 4, 2023 by stuartelden

Peter T. Struck and Sophia Rosenfeld (eds.), A Cultural History of Ideas – Bloomsbury, six volumes, November 2022 A massive, six-volume reference work, at a high price, but looks impressive if you can find a suitable library copy… How has … Continue reading →

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Alisa Zhulina, Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life – Northwestern University Press, January 2024

Posted on April 3, 2023 by stuartelden

Alisa Zhulina, Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life – Northwestern University Press, January 2024 Reads canonical works of modern drama in relation to the economic ideas of their era Emerging amid the turbulent rise of market finance and … Continue reading →

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Generative AI and University Futures: Three Seminars at University of Manchester, May 2023

Posted on April 3, 2023 by stuartelden

Generative AI and University Futures: Three Seminars at University of Manchester, May 2023 We’re hosting 3 in person seminars about generative AI and university futures at the University of Manchester on Critical AI literacy (May 10th), Assessment Reform (May 17th) … Continue reading →

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Books received – Surya, Foucault, Calvino, Blanchot, Artières, Eliade, Loyer, Bataille, Cunliffe

Posted on March 31, 2023 by stuartelden

Bought in Paris or second-hand, connecting to either the new Indo-European thought project or the earlier Foucault one. I’ll just mention a couple – La bibliothèque de Georges Bataille is the illustrated catalogue to the recent sale of a part of … Continue reading →

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Translation and the Archive in the Continental Tradition workshop, Senate House, London, 19 May 2023 – organised by Henry Somers-Hall with Julia Ng, Alan Schrift, Daniel Smith, Charles Stivale and Stuart Elden

Posted on March 31, 2023 by stuartelden

On 19 May 2023 I’ll speaking at a workshop on Translation and the Archive in the Continental Tradition, organised by Henry Somers-Hall for Royal Holloway, University of London. It will be held in central London at Senate House. Registration is … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, “What Is Critique?” and “The Culture of the Self” (2024)

Posted on March 31, 2023 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Now available for pre-order on the University of Chicago Press website. Michel Foucault, What Is Critique? & The Culture of the Self Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini, and Arnold I. Davidson Translated by Clare…

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Sur les traces de Georges Canguilhem – CAPHÉS website with archive information, bibliographies, interviews, etc.

Posted on March 30, 2023 by stuartelden

The CAPHÉS archive in Paris, which houses Georges Canguilhem’s archive and his library, among other valuable resources, has produced an invaluable website about his work. Sur les traces de Georges Canguilhem Le philosophe Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995) est un ancien élève … Continue reading →

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Un inédit de Michel Foucault publié en mai (2023)

Posted on March 30, 2023 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Un inédit de Michel Foucault publié en mai AFP, 10 mars 2023 Un inédit de Michel Foucault, “Le Discours philosophique”, réflexion sur les rapports entre philosophie et actualité, sera publié le 12 mai, ont annoncé…

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