Stuart Elden
@stuartelden.bsky.social
Political theorist, political geographer, now mainly write on the history of ideas. Professor at University of Warwick, work on territory, Foucault, Lefebvre and new project on Indo-European thought in C20th France. https://progressivegeographies.com
Books received - Dupuis-Déri, Drouet, Mbembe, Ginzburg, Connor, Lorenzini progressivegeographies.com/2026/08/05/b...
Books received – Dupuis-Déri, Drouet, Mbembe, Ginzburg, Connor, Lorenzini
Mostly books I’ve mentioned here before – Francis Dupuis-Déri, Killer Althusser: The Banality of Men – trans. Mélissa Bull; Pascale Drouet, Shakespeare and the Denial of Territory: Banishment…
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Charles J. Stivale, Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987: Summaries and Commentary – @edinburghup.bsky.social, December 2025 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-unfoldi... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Nathan Smith newbooksnetwork.com/unfolding-th...
Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987
Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987
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Like Loebs? Every fall semester, I like to remind people that while Perseus has many free Loebs sectioned up into book and chapter, if you want to download and read the public domain Loebs (277 of them) as PDFs or txt files, Duke U's very own Ryan Baumann created _Loebolus 📗📕_. ryanfb.xyz/loebolus/
Loebolus
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Two Foucault books reissued by Routledge - History of Madness and Politics, Philosophy, Culture, October 2026 www.routledge.com/History-of-M... www.routledge.com/Politics-Phi... Limited additional material in both @routledgebooks.bsky.social
History of Madness
When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la Folie à l'âge Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the t...
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Colm McAuliffe, Film, In Theory: The BFI Education Department and Film Culture - @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social, February 2026 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/film-in-t...
Film, In Theory
Film, In Theory offers the first sustained history of the formation of modern film studies in Britain. It balances unpublished archival materials from the BFI a…
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A longer post in this weekly series - a tribute to Carlo Ginzburg, and his approach of the historian as a detective, with a particular focus on his important essay 'Clues'. "The Historian as Detective – Carlo Ginzburg and the Search for ‘Clues’" progressivegeographies.com/2026/08/02/t...
The Historian as Detective – Carlo Ginzburg and the Search for ‘Clues’
A few years ago, after one of the presentations I’d given on reconstructing Émile Benveniste’s movements during the Second World War through various archives, one audience member said to another: “…
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Emile Chabal, The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian - @harvardpress.bsky.social, August 2026 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... Interview about writing the book www.hup.harvard.edu/features/who...
The Age of Hobsbawm — Harvard University Press
An intellectual biography of Eric Hobsbawm, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) was one of the foremost European intellectuals of the twentieth cent...
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Iselin Németh Winther and Andreas Østhagen, An Introduction to Arctic Governance and Geopolitics - @elgarpublishing.bsky.social, 2026 (print and open access) www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/an-...
An Introduction to Arctic Governance and Geopolitics
This timely book provides a foundational overview of the governance and geopolitics of the Arctic, an area which has moved from the margins of world politics to a region of global relevance. Identifyi...
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Daniele Lorenzini (ed.), The Foucauldian Mind (2026) Daniele Lorenzini (ed.), The Foucauldian Mind, Published July 29, 2026 by Routledge Description Michel Foucault is one of the most influential, and controversial, thinkers of the twentieth century. His work has had a transformative effect on the…
Daniele Lorenzini (ed.), The Foucauldian Mind (2026)
Daniele Lorenzini (ed.), The Foucauldian Mind, Published July 29, 2026 by Routledge Description Michel Foucault is one of the most influential, and controversial, thinkers of the twentieth century. His work has had a transformative effect on the study of the humanities and social sciences. His engagement with topics such as truth, power, and language continues to exert significant influence on a huge range of disciplines, from philosophy, sociology, and anthropology to history, politics, law, literary, religious, and gender studies, and many others.
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Jeanne Favret-Saada, L’impossible famille Rivière. Retour sur un triple meurtre en 1835 (2026) Jeanne Favret-Saada, L'impossible famille Rivière. Retour sur un triple meurtre en 1835, Gallimard 2026. Le 3 juin 1835, un jeune paysan normand, Pierre Rivière, égorge sa mère, sa sœur et son frère…
Jeanne Favret-Saada, L’impossible famille Rivière. Retour sur un triple meurtre en 1835 (2026)
Jeanne Favret-Saada, L'impossible famille Rivière. Retour sur un triple meurtre en 1835, Gallimard 2026. Le 3 juin 1835, un jeune paysan normand, Pierre Rivière, égorge sa mère, sa sœur et son frère avant de s’enfuir. Arrêté le mois suivant, il rédige, dans l’attente de son jugement, un Mémoire d’une cinquantaine de feuillets pour expliquer son geste. Condamné à mort, puis gracié, c’est-à-dire emprisonné à vie, il se suicide dans sa cellule en 1840.
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A longer post in this weekly series - a tribute to Carlo Ginzburg, and his approach of the historian as a detective, with a particular focus on his important essay 'Clues'. "The Historian as Detective – Carlo Ginzburg and the Search for ‘Clues’" progressivegeographies.com/2026/08/02/t...
The Historian as Detective – Carlo Ginzburg and the Search for ‘Clues’
A few years ago, after one of the presentations I’d given on reconstructing Émile Benveniste’s movements during the Second World War through various archives, one audience member said to another: “…
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Pleased to hear this piece from September 2025 was useful - Pierre Bourdieu and Erwin Panofsky: Architecture, Scholasticism and the Concept of Habitus progressivegeographies.com/2025/09/14/p...
Pierre Bourdieu and Erwin Panofsky: Architecture, Scholasticism and the Concept of Habitus
In 1967, Pierre Bourdieu translated Erwin Panofsky’s 1951 book Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism into French. The German-born Panofsky is best known for his work in art history, and f…
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Christos Lynteris@visualplague.bsky.social · 4d agoFound a copy of the original edition recently. Big thanks for this very illuminating blog post - incredibly helpful in putting Bourdieu's long & complex postface in perspective
Richard Harris, David Manley and Robert Mayhew eds. Geography and a Geographer: Reimagining the Discipline after Ron Johnston - LSE Press/RGS-IBG series, August 2026 - print and open access press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3... Piece about the book on the LSE Press blog. blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/202...
Steven Connor, Gaston Bachelard: An Intellectual Biography - @reaktionbooks.bsky.social, July 2025 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/gaston-...
It’s UK publication day! Today my book on the colonial roots of French theory is officially out with @politybooks.bsky.social. Thanks for the wonderful blurbs from @stuartelden.bsky.social, @juliango.bsky.social, Adam Rosenthal, and Joachim Whaley. (US publication date: October 6th)
Onur Erdur@onurerdur.bsky.social · 5mo agoOut in July! "School of the South: The Colonial Roots of French Theory". More details & pre-orders here: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... @politybooks.bsky.social
Daniele Lorenzini ed. The Foucauldian Mind - Routledge, July 2026 www.routledge.com/The-Foucauld... Now published - a major, and very expensive, reference work, though the e-book is less.
The Foucauldian Mind
Michel Foucault is one of the most influential, and controversial, thinkers of the twentieth century. His work has had a transformative effect on the study of the humanities and social sciences. His e...
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Shuchen Xiang and Martin Powers eds. How China Shaped the Enlightenment: A Transcultural History of Modern Thought - @routledgebooks.bsky.social, July 2026 www.routledge.com/How-China-Sh...
How China Shaped the Enlightenment: A Transcultural History of Modern Thought
This book explores the interaction of European Enlightenment thinkers with Chinese theory and shows how ideas from China and ideas about China had a profound impact on Enlightenment thought. Challengi...
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L’écrivain belge Raoul Vaneigem, insurgé lyrique contre la société marchande, est mort
L’écrivain belge Raoul Vaneigem, insurgé lyrique contre la société marchande, est mort
Le philosophe, un des leaders du mouvement situationniste, prônait une liberté d’expression radicale. Son « Traité de savoir-vivre à l’usage des jeunes générations » avait contribué à l’éclosion du mouvement de Mai 1968. Il s’est éteint mardi 28 juillet à 92 ans.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra - trans. Paul S. Loeb and David F. Tinsley, @stanfordpress.bsky.social, August 2026 www.sup.org/books/theory...
Friedrich Lenger, The Price of the World: A Global History of Capitalism - trans. Daniel Steuer, @politybooks.bsky.social, June 2026 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
The Price of the World: A Global History of Capitalism
The Price of the World: A Global History of Capitalism, Over the last 500 years, capitalism has produced a world that is highly interdependent and at the same time highly asymmetrical
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Emily Eakin, The Frenchmen or, my Life in Theory - Penguin, July 2025 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/317335... A few pieces about it are linked here - progressivegeographies.com/2026/07/29/e...
The Frenchmen by Emily Eakin: 9781594206320 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
“A marvelous book. It’s gossipy and personal and completely fascinating...cafe gossip with the footnotes left in.”— New York Times “A superbly engrossing adventure of ideas...this...
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Book Review Forum 2: Review’s Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography” by Juliet Fall. Reviews by Stuart Elden, Rachael Squire, Giada Peterle, and Klaus Dodds.
The July issue of Dialogues in Human Geography is available now: journals.sagepub.com/toc/DHG/current Including a new guest editorial, six regular article forums, one further engagements forums, and two book review forums! A brief thread follows this post summarizing the issues contents.
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Anthony Iles and Mattin eds., Abolishing Capitalist Totality - Minor Compositions, 2026 www.minorcompositions.info?p=1690
Francis Dupuis-Déri - Killer Althusser: The Banality of Men - trans. Mélissa Bull, Between the Lines, June 2025 btlbooks.com/book/killer-... via a recent piece - voxeurop.eu/en/femicide-... See also Johanna Luyssen, Les Fragments d’Hélène – Julliard, September 2025 www.lisez.com/livres/les-f...
Killer Althusser
The Banality of Men.
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As Alexander Aerts writes for the blog, it was Russo-French philosopher Koyré who first conceptualized the end of history, using it to ask questions about what imparts meaning to human time. His student and friend, Kojève, went on to equate the end of history with the end of politics.
Alexandre Koyré and the Beginning of the End of History
by Alexander Aerts
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Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Louis Renou and a 1940 arrest by the Germans - a short piece about two of Antoine Meillet's brilliant students, their possible marriage and if Renou was arrested. progressivegeographies.com/2026/07/26/m...
Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Louis Renou and a 1940 arrest by the Germans
I’ve written about Marie-Louise Sjoestedt (1900-1940), an important scholar of Celtic languages and mythology, briefly before in this series. From various accounts, there are two pie…
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Books received (1) – Bloch, Derrida, Patchin, Neale, Caló & Enes Pereira, Braudel progressivegeographies.com/2026/07/27/b...
Books received (1) – Bloch, Derrida, Patchin, Neale, Caló & Enes Pereira, Braudel
Older books by Bloch and Braudel, bought second-hand, a reedition of three important texts by Derrida, Force de loi, Voyous, Fichus, and the recent La Chose Séminaire (1975-1977) Suivi de la 6e sé…
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Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Louis Renou and a 1940 arrest by the Germans - a short piece about two of Antoine Meillet's brilliant students, their possible marriage and if Renou was arrested. progressivegeographies.com/2026/07/26/m...
Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Louis Renou and a 1940 arrest by the Germans
I’ve written about Marie-Louise Sjoestedt (1900-1940), an important scholar of Celtic languages and mythology, briefly before in this series. From various accounts, there are two pie…
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Nearly 10,000 online and open access collections of material related to radical, labour and anti-colonial history from around the world now available. Browse the full list here: hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...
radical online collections and archives
I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…
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