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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: Ben Anderson and Anna Secor, The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism (Goldsmiths Press/PERC Papers) Georges Bataille, Critical Essays Volume 2: 1949-1951, trans. Chris Turner, ed. Alberto Toscano and Benjamin Noys (Seagull) … 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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My publications in 2024

Posted on December 27, 2024 by stuartelden

“Canguilhem, Dumézil, Hyppolite: Georges Canguilhem and his Contemporaries”, Revue Internationale de Philosophie, No 307, 2024, 27-48 – special issue on Georges Canguilhem beyond Epistemology and the History of Science, edited by Federico Testa. “Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity”, Journal of the History of … Continue reading →

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Things Hidden: The Life and Legacy of René Girard (full documentary)

Posted on December 27, 2024 by stuartelden

Things Hidden: The Life and Legacy of René Girard (YouTube) Website and trailer at the film’s site – Things Hidden

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Dan Davies, The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind – University of Chicago Press, 2024

Posted on December 26, 2024 by stuartelden

Dan Davies, The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind – University of Chicago Press, 2024 Longlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Book of the Year. How life and the economy became a … Continue reading →

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My favourite music of 2024

Posted on December 25, 2024 by stuartelden

The music I enjoyed this year, either bought in physical form, often through Burning Shed, or digitally through bandcamp. 212°, Transmissions Anchor & Burden, Extinction Level & Afterglow EP The Aristocrats, Duck Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin, Spin & Ronin Rhythm Clan, Moonday EP Bass Communion, The Itself of Itself BASta!, III Big Big Train, The Likes … Continue reading →

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Veronica Strang, Water Beings: from nature worship to the environmental crisis – Reaktion, March 2023 and book launch, Oxford, 7 March 2023

Posted on December 24, 2024 by stuartelden

Veronica Strang, Water Beings: from nature worship to the environmental crisis – Reaktion, March 2023 I’ve shared news of the book before. There is a New Books discussion with Jana Byers now available. A major study of marine serpent deities, … Continue reading →

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Ben Anderson and Anna Secor, The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism – Goldsmiths Press/PERC Papers, July 2025

Posted on December 24, 2024 by stuartelden

Ben Anderson and Anna Secor, The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism – Goldsmiths Press/PERC Papers, July 2025 How today’s dominant political forms—right-wing populism, progressivism, and liberalism—offer differentiated responses to shared conditions of uncertainty. The Politics of Feeling argues that politics has … Continue reading →

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