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Aaron Zielinski, The Imaginary Force of History: On Images, the Imaginary, and Myths in Foucault’s Early Works (2022)

Posted on December 18, 2022 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Aaron Zielinski (2022) The Imaginary Force of History: On images, the Imaginary, and Myths in Foucault’s Early Works, Critical Review, Published online: 09 Dec 2022 DOI: 10.1080/08913811.2022.2151709 ABSTRACT In manuscripts and unpublished articles written in…

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Thomas Pynchon sells his archive

Posted on December 17, 2022 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
At The New York Times, Jennifer Schuessler reports that Thomas Pynchon has sold his archive to Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. The article notes that the “archive includes 48 boxes —…

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Stuart Elden, The Archaeology of Foucault – Polity, December 2022

Posted on December 16, 2022 by stuartelden

Stuart Elden, The Archaeology of Foucault – Polity, December 2022 The fourth and final book in my series of studies of Foucault’s career is now published in the UK. US and rest of the world will follow in early 2023. … Continue reading →

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Patrick ffrench, Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics – Bloomsbury, April 2021 and New Books Network discussion

Posted on December 15, 2022 by stuartelden

Patrick ffrench, Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics – Bloomsbury, April 2021 The Introduction and part of the first chapter are available at the above link. There is also a New Books Network discussion with Bill Schaffer. Suspicious … Continue reading →

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Kristi Sweet, Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: The Territory of the Third Critique – Cambridge University Press, January 2023 [and open access Introduction]

Posted on December 14, 2022 by stuartelden

Kristi Sweet, Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: The Territory of the Third Critique – Cambridge University Press, January 2023 Another expensive hardback, but looks interesting… [update: the Introduction is available open access] Update October 2025: NDPR review by Lara … Continue reading →

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Joanne Yao, The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order – Manchester University Press, March 2022 and New Books Network discussion

Posted on December 14, 2022 by stuartelden

Joanne Yao, The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order – Manchester University Press, March 2022 Just an expensive hardback at the moment, unfortunately. Environmental politics has traditionally been a peripheral concern for international relations theory, but … Continue reading →

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Some bibliographical questions about Roland Barthes [with some answers]

Posted on December 14, 2022 by stuartelden

Some bibliographical questions about Roland Barthes. Any answers much appreciated – and with the first three will hopefully interesting to others; the final one is more a remark (or, as the cliché goes, more of a comment than a question). … Continue reading →

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Don Munro, Marx’s Theory of Land, Rent and Cities – Edinburgh University Press, 2022 (hardback and open access e-book)

Posted on December 13, 2022 by stuartelden

Don Munro, Marx’s Theory of Land, Rent and Cities – Edinburgh University Press, 2022 (hardback and open access e-book) Note that adding the pdf to a basket doesn’t work; but if you scroll down the page there are links to … Continue reading →

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New translations of Alternatives à la prison (2022)

Posted on December 13, 2022 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
New translations of Alternatives à la prison (2022) The lecture given by Foucault on alternatives to prison in 1976 at the University of Montreal was published and commented on in Foucault in Montreal (2021) published…

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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory – Duke University Press, January 2023

Posted on December 12, 2022 by stuartelden

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory – Duke University Press, January 2023 The Introduction is open access here [update: there is a review at The Duke Reader; and a discussion on the New Books network]

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