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Martin Paul Eve and Benjamin Bratton on the problem with Agamben

Posted on July 29, 2021 by stuartelden

Martin Paul Eve, It’s Time we Dropped Agamben (personal blog) Benjamin Bratton, Agamben WTF, or How Philosophy Failed the Pandemic (Verso blog)

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Barney Warf, Geographies of Cosmopolitanism – Edward Elgar, July 2021

Posted on July 29, 2021 by stuartelden

Barney Warf, Geographies of Cosmopolitanism – Edward Elgar, July 2021 Invigorating and timely, this book provides a thorough overview of the geographies of cosmopolitanism, an ethical and political philosophy that views humanity as one community. Barney Warf charts the origins … Continue reading →

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Books received – Klossowski, Borges, Rancière, Lukács

Posted on July 28, 2021 by stuartelden

A few books picked up second-hand, and three by Lukács from Verso.

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Antonio Gramsci, Subaltern Social Groups: A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25 – Columbia University Press, August 2021

Posted on July 28, 2021 by stuartelden

Antonio Gramsci, Subaltern Social Groups: A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25 – edited and translated by Joseph A. Buttigieg and Marcus E. Green, Columbia University Press, 2021 Antonio Gramsci is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in … Continue reading →

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Jerry Z. Muller, Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes – Princeton University Press, April 2022

Posted on July 26, 2021 by stuartelden

Jerry Z. Muller, Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes – Princeton University Press, April 2022 Scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar … Continue reading →

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Anthony King, Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century – Polity, July 2021

Posted on July 7, 2021 by stuartelden

Anthony King, Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century – Polity, July 2021 Over the last two decades, warfare has migrated into cities. From Mosul to Mumbai, Aleppo to Marawi, the major military battles of our time have taken place in densely populated … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Confessions videos – James Faubion, Martina Tazzioli, Daniele Lorenzini, Arianna Sforzini, Elizabeth Clark, Niki Kasumi Clements, Lynne Huffer, Mark Jordan, Peter Brown, James Bernauer

Posted on July 1, 2021 by stuartelden

Conference: Foucault’s confessions videos (2021) – the videos from the series organised by Niki Kasumi Clements, all available on YouTube thanks to Foucault Studies for the link

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Lauren Berlant (1957-2021) – tributes from University of Chicago, Duke University Press and Critical Inquiry (with open access papers)

Posted on June 30, 2021 by stuartelden

The news of the sad death of Lauren Berlant has been all over social media, with many heartfelt tributes to the impact of their work. I won’t try to link to all of them, but these three are useful. University … Continue reading →

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Rachael Squire, Undersea Geopolitics: Sealab, Science, and the Cold War – Rowman, July 2021

Posted on June 30, 2021 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Rachael Squire, Undersea Geopolitics: Sealab, Science, and the Cold War – Rowman, July 2021 This book furthers academic scholarship in cutting-edge areas of geographical and geopolitical writing by drawing on a series of little-studied undersea…

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Camille Robcis, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France – University of Chicago Press, May 2021 and discussion

Posted on June 29, 2021 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Camille Robcis, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France – University of Chicago Press, May 2021 There is a discussion of the book here. From 1940 to 1945, forty thousand patients died in…

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