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Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates, Noah’s Arkive – University of Minnesota Press, June 2023

Posted on May 22, 2023 by stuartelden

Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates, Noah’s Arkive – University of Minnesota Press, June 2023 Most people know the story of Noah from a children’s bible or a play set with a colorful ship, bearded Noah, pairs of animals, and … Continue reading →

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Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Dalia Gebrial discuss prison abolition, racial capitalism, and critical geography – Verso podcast

Posted on May 21, 2023 by stuartelden

Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Dalia Gebrial discuss prison abolition, racial capitalism, and critical geography on the Verso podcast:

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Ian Hacking, Anthropologie philosophique et raison scientifique (2023)

Posted on May 19, 2023 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Ian Hacking, Anthropologie philosophique et raison scientifique, Textes réunis par Matteo Vagelli. Traduction de Aude Bandini, Vincent Guillin ,Marc Kirsch, Louis Quéré, Matteo Vagelli, Vrin, 2023. Présentation Des calculs de probabilité aux troubles de la…

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Claude Lévi-Strauss: the Fondation Loubat lectures 

Posted on May 18, 2023 by stuartelden

Update August 2025: A revised and expanded version of this post is here, as part of the ‘Sunday Histories’ series. In the 1949-50 academic year, Claude Lévi-Strauss gave the Fondation Loubat lectures at the Collège de France. Although he was trying … Continue reading →

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Joanne Yao, The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order – Manchester University Press, March 2022 – book symposium at The Disorder of Things

Posted on May 16, 2023 by stuartelden

Joanne Yao, The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order – Manchester University Press, March 2022 I’ve mentioned this book before. There is a book symposium being hosted by The Disorder of Things. Thanks to dmf for … Continue reading →

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Mona Domosh, Disturbing Development in the Jim Crow South – University of Georgia Press, March 2023 (and seminar on May 16)

Posted on May 15, 2023 by stuartelden

Mona Domosh, Disturbing Development in the Jim Crow South – University of Georgia Press, March 2023 A seminar on the book is being held online tomorrow – 16 May 2023 (details here; registration here). Apologies for the lack of notice. … Continue reading →

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Mairéad Hanrahan, Genet’s Genres of Politics – Legenda, April 2023

Posted on May 15, 2023 by stuartelden

Mairéad Hanrahan, Genet’s Genres of Politics – Legenda, April 2023 Hardback only at the moment, but paperback forthcoming. In this book, Mairéad Hanrahan examines the shifts in political focus in Genet’s writing, from the intimate fantasies of the early novels … Continue reading →

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M. L. M. Rodríguez, Texture in the Work of Ian Hacking. Michel Foucault as the Guiding Thread of Hacking’s Thinking (2021)

Posted on May 14, 2023 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
María Laura Martínez Rodríguez, Texture in the Work of Ian Hacking. Michel Foucault as the Guiding Thread of Hacking’s Thinking, Springer, 2021 About this book This book offers a systematized overview of Ian Hacking’s work.…

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Georges Bataille, The Limit of the Useful – a listing of which French texts it includes

Posted on May 13, 2023 by stuartelden

I’ve updated the page on this site which lists English translations of texts in Georges Bataille’s Oeuvres complètes and other French collections. The update was to provide references to the recently-published The Limit of the Useful, translated by Cory Knutson … Continue reading →

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Robert T. Tally Jr., The Fiction of Dread: Dystopia, Monstrosity and Apocalyse – Bloomsbury, December 2023

Posted on May 12, 2023 by stuartelden

Robert T. Tally Jr., The Fiction of Dread: Dystopia, Monstrosity and Apocalyse – Bloomsbury, December 2023 At the dawn of the 20th century, a wide-ranging utopianism dominated popular and intellectual cultures throughout Europe and America. However, within just a few … Continue reading →

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