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Earthly volumes, voluminous materialities: Working with apprehension – special issue of Territory, Politics, Governance, edited by Mia Bennett and Klaus Dodds (part open access)

Posted on December 17, 2023 by stuartelden

Earthly volumes, voluminous materialities: Working with apprehension – special issue of Territory, Politics, Governance, edited by Mia Bennett and Klaus Dodds (part open access) Earthly volumes, voluminous materialities: working with apprehensionMia M. Bennett & Klaus DoddsPages: 1-11 | DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2023.2242394 Data centres … Continue reading →

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Carolyn Dever, How to Lose a Library at Public Books – the best thing I’ve read on the ongoing and very serious British Library problems

Posted on December 16, 2023 by stuartelden

Carolyn Dever, How to Lose a Library at Public Books – the best thing I’ve read on the ongoing and very serious British Library problems (via @nescio13 on X/Twitter) What’s business as usual at the Victoria and Albert Museum is … Continue reading →

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Six degrees of T.S. Eliot – the links through Jean de Menasce to Émile Benveniste

Posted on December 15, 2023 by stuartelden

Given how connected he was, I suppose it was only a matter of time before my Indo-European research project led me in the direction of T.S. Eliot. It came in the lead I was following with Jean de Menasce, who … Continue reading →

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Julien Larregue, Hereditary: The Persistence of Biological Theories of Crime – Stanford University Press, January 2024

Posted on December 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Julien Larregue, Hereditary: The Persistence of Biological Theories of Crime – Stanford University Press, January 2024 Since the 1990s, a growing number of criminal courts around the world have been using expert assessments based on behavioral genetics and neuroscience to … Continue reading →

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Jeffrey Ahlman, Ghana: A Political and Social History – Bloomsbury, November 2023

Posted on December 12, 2023 by stuartelden

Jeffrey Ahlman, Ghana: A Political and Social History – Bloomsbury, November 2023 Few African countries have attracted the international attention that Ghana has. In the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the then-colonial Gold Coast emerged as a key political and … Continue reading →

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Joseph Albernaz, Common Measures: Romanticism and the Groundlessness of Community – Stanford University Press, August 2024

Posted on December 11, 2023 by stuartelden

Joseph Albernaz, Common Measures: Romanticism and the Groundlessness of Community – Stanford University Press, August 2024 What happens to the experience of community when the grounds of communal life collapse? The Romantic period’s upheaval cast both traditional communal organizations of … Continue reading →

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Philip Hutch and Elaine Stratford, Landscape, Association, Empire: Imagining Van Diemen’s Land – Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

Posted on December 10, 2023 by stuartelden

Philip Hutch and Elaine Stratford, Landscape, Association, Empire: Imagining Van Diemen’s Land – Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 This book tells a compelling story about invasion, settler colonialism, and an emergent sense of identity in place, as seen through topographical and landscape … Continue reading →

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Foucault News Info wanted: What fountain pen did Foucault write with?

Posted on December 9, 2023 by stuartelden

At Foucault News, Clare O’Farrell asks for information – What fountain pen did Foucault write with? Editor: I have recently developed an interest in fountain pens and was wondering if anybody knew what brand of fountain pen Foucault used? He may have used a … Continue reading →

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W.C. Hackett, Outside the Gates – Angelico, 2021 (historical novel about Jean Wahl)

Posted on December 8, 2023 by stuartelden

W.C. Hackett, Outside the Gates – Angelico, 2021 The gates of Drancy Internment Camp in the northeast suburbs of Paris served as a holding pen for thousands of Jews during the German occupation of France in World War II. Jean … Continue reading →

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Dana Luciano, How The Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century America – Duke UP, January 2024 (open access introduction)

Posted on December 7, 2023 by stuartelden

Dana Luciano, How The Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century America – Duke University Press, January 2024 The introduction is available open access here In How the Earth Feels Dana Luciano examines the impacts of the new science of geology on nineteenth-century … Continue reading →

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