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Historical Materialism Seventeenth Annual Conference, 12-15 November 2020 London

Posted on April 16, 2020 by stuartelden

Historical Materialism Seventeenth Annual Conference Survival Pending Revolution: Historical Materialism in a Pandemic Age* 12-15 November 2020 Central London Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2020 https://conference.historicalmaterialism.org/ It is a commonplace in the left’s theoretical imaginary that crises have a revelatory … Continue reading →

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Georges Bataille’s Oeuvres complètes and English translations – list updated and a couple of questions

Posted on April 16, 2020 by stuartelden

I’ve done some updating to the list of works in Georges Bataille’s Oeuvres complètes and other French collections and the English translations. This includes some links to books, a bit of detail on texts in The College of Sociology not in the … Continue reading →

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Santiago Zabala, Being at Large: Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts – McGill-Queen’s University Press, April 2020

Posted on April 16, 2020 by stuartelden

Santiago Zabala, Being at Large: Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts – McGill-Queen’s University Press, April 2020 Politicians and philosophers presenting themselves as the ultimate bearers of truth and reality have created unprecedented technological, cultural, and political framings. This … Continue reading →

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Duncan Bell, Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America – Princeton University Press, August 2020

Posted on April 15, 2020 by stuartelden

Duncan Bell, Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America – Princeton University Press, August 2020 Between the late nineteenth century and the First World War an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals advocated the unification of Britain and … Continue reading →

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Aga Khan Program Lecture: Laleh Khalili, ‘Tankers, Tycoons, and the Making of Modern Regimes of Law, Labour, and Finance’ (video)

Posted on April 15, 2020 by stuartelden

Aga Khan Program Lecture: Laleh Khalili – ‘Tankers, Tycoons, and the Making of Modern Regimes of Law, Labour, and Finance‘ – lecture done remotely because of the current situation.   Excellent recent research on the politics of containerisation and the … Continue reading →

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Books received – Bataille, Eliade, Ballvé, de Waelhens

Posted on April 15, 2020 by stuartelden

Mainly books by Bataille, but also a volume of Mircea Eliade’s journals, the first book in French on Heidegger, originally published in 1942, and Teo Ballvé’s The Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia. Teo kindly sent a copy of his … Continue reading →

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Marta Faustino, Gianfranco Ferraro (eds.), The Late Foucault: Ethical and Political Questions – Bloomsbury, December 2020

Posted on April 14, 2020 by stuartelden

Marta Faustino, Gianfranco Ferraro (eds.), The Late Foucault: Ethical and Political Questions – Bloomsbury, December 2020 Michel Foucault is one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century and one of the leading figures in contemporary Western … Continue reading →

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Etienne Balibar, Spinoza, the Transindividual, translated by Mark G. E. Kelly, Edinburgh University Press, September 2020 (and review by Dan Taylor)

Posted on April 14, 2020 by stuartelden

Etienne Balibar, Spinoza, the Transindividual, translated by Mark G. E. Kelly, Edinburgh University Press, September 2020 One of the most important books on Spinoza to appear in the last 30 years, written by one of the foremost living French philosophers … Continue reading →

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Georges Bataille – Oeuvres complètes and other French collections, with list of English translations

Posted on April 14, 2020 by stuartelden

I’ve made a start with the project of listing the pieces in Georges Bataille’s Oeuvres complètes and other French collections, along with English translations of these pieces. The page is available here. It’s not complete – I’ve done 8 of the 12 … Continue reading →

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Journal of the History of Ideas, Volume 81, Number 2, April 2020 (open access)

Posted on April 14, 2020 by stuartelden

Journal of the History of Ideas, Volume 81, Number 2, April 2020 – currently open access Sharon Achinstein on Hugo Grotius, Kazutaka Inamura and Camille Robcis on Frantz Fanon, and others…

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