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Georges Dumézil’s Mythe et épopée series and its partial English translations – updated

Posted on July 29, 2025 by stuartelden

I’ve updated the page on Georges Dumézil’s Mythe et épopée series and its partial English translations with the page references to the 1977 and 1982 notes translated in The Stakes of the Warrior and The Plight of the Sorcerer. The French has notes to … Continue reading →

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Nick Srnicek, Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI – Polity, October 2025

Posted on July 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Nick Srnicek, Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI – Polity, October 2025 Looking beyond the flurry of rapid changes in artificial intelligence, Silicon Empires uncovers the deep economic forces guiding the expansion of AI. Nick Srnicek offers a clear-eyed … Continue reading →

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Émile Benveniste on auxiliarity – an Acta Linguistica Hafniensia article, Eli Fischer-Jørgensen, a misplaced abstract and a 1965-66 Collège de France course

Posted on July 27, 2025 by stuartelden

In 1965, Émile Benveniste published “Structure des relations d’auxiliarité” in Acta Linguistica Hafniensia – a journal founded by the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen. Its initial editors were Viggo Brøndal and Louis Hjelmslev. Although the journal had been founded in 1939, and published five … Continue reading →

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CFP: Vesper: Journal of Architecture, Arts & Theory no 14 – La Volontà di sapere/The Will to Knowledge

Posted on July 26, 2025 by stuartelden

CFP: Vesper: Journal of Architecture, Arts & Theory no 14 – La Volontà di sapere/The Will to Knowledge Michel Foucault, in La volonté de savoir (1976), described how the mechanisms of the examination of conscience belonging to the pastoral tradition of the … Continue reading →

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Maurizio Lazzarato, War and Money: The Imperialism of the Dollar – trans. Jason Francis McGimsey, Verso, June 2025

Posted on July 26, 2025 by stuartelden

Maurizio Lazzarato, War and Money: The Imperialism of the Dollar – trans. Jason Francis McGimsey, Verso, June 2025 The business of imperial conflict: Why capitalism needs war. Maurizio Lazzarato’s War and Money explores the connections between capitalist expansion, international economic conflict, and … Continue reading →

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CFP: The Group of the Rue Saint-Benoît: Rethinking Intellectual Practice – Paris, 9 January 2026

Posted on July 25, 2025 by stuartelden

CFP: The Group of the Rue Saint-Benoît: Rethinking Intellectual Practice – Paris, 9 January 2026 deadline for abstracts is 1 September 2025 9-11 Rue de Constantine Paris 7007 University of London Institute in Paris in collaboration with l’Institut Mémoires de l’édition … Continue reading →

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Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality – Cambridge University Press, August 2025

Posted on July 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality – Cambridge University Press, August 2025 Update: New Books discussion with Morteza Hajizadeh – thanks to dmf for the link How did modern territoriality emerge and what are … Continue reading →

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Ute Wittstock, Marseille 1940: The Flight of Literature, trans. Daniel Bowles – Polity, May 2025

Posted on July 24, 2025 by stuartelden

Ute Wittstock, Marseille 1940: The Flight of Literature, trans. Daniel Bowles – Polity, May 2025 June 1940: France surrenders to Germany. The Gestapo is searching for Heinrich Mann and Franz Werfel, Hannah Arendt, Lion Feuchtwanger and many other writers and … Continue reading →

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Benjamin P. Davis, Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from du Bois to Arendt – Edinburgh University Press, May 2025

Posted on July 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Benjamin P. Davis, Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from du Bois to Arendt – Edinburgh University Press, May 2025 update October 2025 – now in paperback

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Richard L. Smith and Edmond Smith – Global Trade in the Premodern World: Thematic Approaches to Routes, Realms, and Networks – Routledge, June 2025

Posted on July 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Richard L. Smith and Edmond Smith – Global Trade in the Premodern World: Thematic Approaches to Routes, Realms, and Networks – Routledge, June 2025 Global Trade in the Premodern World offers an authoritative and expansive history of exchange and interaction across … Continue reading →

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