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Rob Kitchin, Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods – Polity, December 2024

Posted on January 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Rob Kitchin, Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods – Polity, December 2024 Critical Data Studies has come of age as a vibrant, interdisciplinary field of study. Taking data as its primary analytical focus, the … Continue reading →

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Adam Zucker, Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity – Oxford University Press, 2024 and New Books discussion with Pamela Brown

Posted on January 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Adam Zucker, Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity – Oxford University Press, 2024 New Books discussion with Pamela Brown – thanks to dmf for the link Shakespeare Unlearned dances along the borderline of sense and nonsense in early … Continue reading →

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Elyse Graham, Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II – HarperCollins, September 2024

Posted on January 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Elyse Graham, Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II – HarperCollins, September 2024 The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the … Continue reading →

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Mark Lawrence, Western Europe’s Small Wars and Counterinsurgencies Since Napoleon: After the Great Wars – Springer, December 2024

Posted on January 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Mark Lawrence, Western Europe’s Small Wars and Counterinsurgencies Since Napoleon: After the Great Wars – Springer, December 2024 This book focuses on the wars that are normally relegated to the periphery of geo-politics at the heart of Europe’s ‘new’ military history. … Continue reading →

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John Protevi, Regimes of Violence: Towards a Political Anthropology – University of Minnesota Press, March 2025

Posted on January 3, 2025 by stuartelden

John Protevi, Regimes of Violence: Towards a Political Anthropology – University of Minnesota Press, March 2025 A wide-ranging examination of the roots—and possible future—of violence in human societies Is aggression inevitable among humans? In Regimes of Violence, John Protevi explores how human … Continue reading →

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David Golumbia, Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology – University of Minnesota Press, November 2024

Posted on January 2, 2025 by stuartelden

David Golumbia, Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology – University of Minnesota Press, November 2024 An urgent reckoning with digital technology’s fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinnings In a timely challenge to the potent political role of digital technology, Cyberlibertarianism argues … Continue reading →

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Books I’m looking forward to in 2025

Posted on January 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Some of the academic books I’m looking forward to in 2025: Some of these were published in late 2024 but I haven’t seen them yet, or come out in paperback in 2025. Here are the lists of books I liked … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2024

Posted on December 31, 2024 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked. The criteria was that they were published in that year (or late the previous one), and that I read and liked them. Many of the … Continue reading →

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C.L.R. James, interviewed by Stuart Hall, introduction by Phoebe Braithwaite – complete unaired BBC interview from 1976, in The New York Review

Posted on December 29, 2024 by stuartelden

C.L.R. James, interviewed by Stuart Hall, introduction by Phoebe Braithwaite – complete unaired BBC interview from 1976, in The New York Review – requires subscription or free registration to read just this piece

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Kenny Cupers, The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design – University of Texas Press, 2024 and New Books discussion

Posted on December 28, 2024 by stuartelden

Kenny Cupers, The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design – University of Texas Press, 2024  New Books discussion with Miranda Melcher. Thanks to dmf for the link. An intellectual history of architectural modernism for an … Continue reading →

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