Stuart Elden

@stuartelden.bsky.social

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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 .. more

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 3h

The Logic of Fantasy: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XIV – ed. Jacques-Alain Miller, trans. Adrian Price, @politybooks.bsky.social , April 2026 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

The Logic of Fantasy: : The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XIV

The Logic of Fantasy: : The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XIV, 'Logic of the fantasy': the expression recurs throughout the Seminar as a leitmotif, yet not a single lesson is devoted to it; not even ...

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 1d

Foucault’s Christmas - "a Christmas day without writing, that was impossible! ... a day when, as he said, 'nothing has happened for several thousand years' " progressivegeographies.com/2024/12/25/f...

A photograph of Foucault sitting at a desk with bookshelves behind and a typewriter and papers in front of him. There is a large old-fashioned lampshade above him.

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 1d

The music I enjoyed this year, either bought in physical form, often through @burningshed.com, or digitally through @bandcamp.com
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My favourite music of 2025

The music I enjoyed this year, either bought in physical form, often through Burning Shed, or digitally through bandcamp. A photo of some of the cds in this list Beat, Neon Heat Disease: Live Biosc…

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 2d

Books received - Davy, Luyssen, Deleuze, Lévi-Strauss and Dreyfus, Derrida
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Books received – Davy, Luyssen, Deleuze, Lévi-Strauss and Dreyfus, Derrida

Some second-hand or new French books, including Johanna Luyssen, Les Fragments d’Hélène, Deleuze’s Sur l’appareil d’État et la machine de guerre: Cours novembre 1979-mars 1980 and Sur Spinoza…

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 2d

Gary Slater, Lisa Landoe Hedrick eds. Ethics Across Borders:
Reimagining Religious, Political, and Ecological Divides – Routledge, December 2025
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Ethics Across Borders: Reimagining Religious, Political, and Ecological Divides

Ethics Across Borders assembles perspectives from geographers, historians, theologians, philosophers, and scientists to explore ethically relevant connections across multiple types of borders. The con...

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 2d

Just in time for Christmas: a great interview with an absolute legend.

Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it.

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View of Theda Skocpol in Conversation with Edwin Amenta on Sociology, Political Science, Higher Education, and U.S. Politics | Sociologica

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 3d

Books received - Leshem, Arviddson, Natter and Réfrégier, Pawelski
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A photograph of the four books mentioned in the post - Noam Leshem, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land, the reedition of Stefan Arviddson, Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology As Ideology and Science, Henri Natter and Adam Réfrégier and Five Years Behind Hitler’s Barbed Wire: A Diary of French Officers in a German Prison Camp, 1940-1945 and Melissa Pawelski, Languages of Punishment: Translating Foucault into English and German.

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 3d

Katie Donington, Abdul Mohamud, Robin Whitburn and Nicholas
Draper, Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past – @uclpress.bsky.social, November 2025 (print and open access)
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Teaching Slavery

Teaching Slavery offers ground-breaking research and practical guidance for teaching Britain’s role in transatlantic slavery. Combining historical analysis with classroom strategies, it equips educato...

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 3d

The sheer recalcitrance of diverse materials to the homogenizing process required both by digitization and processing by means of AI means one thing: the digitization is not the archive.

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On Exactitude in Science; Or, No, Full Digitization of Every Archive Is Not the Point — Sonja Drimmer

In 1946, Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Cesares published a short story called “Del Rigor en la Ciencia” (“On Exactitude in Science”) The story, which you can read in the original magazine context ...

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Neil Stewart @neilstewart.bsky.social · 3d

We at the @ihr.bsky.social put an interview with Christopher Hill online earlier this year www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Interviews with Historians - Christopher Hill

Christopher Hill interviewed by Penelope Corfield, part of the Interviews with Historians collection.

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 3d

Michael Braddick, Christopher Hill: The life of a Radical Historian - @versobooks.bsky.social, February 2025
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I've shared the book before, but there is now a @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Lucas Tse
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Christopher Hill

Christopher Hill was one of the leading historians of his generation. His work across more than fifteen books and dozens of articles fundamentally rewrote the way we understand the English Revolution ...

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 4d

One of the pieces included in this list - progressivegeographies.com/resources/wo...

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 4d

Michaela Fišerová and Jakub Mácha eds. Metaphysics and
Aesthetics of Decoration: Ornamental Thinking – Routledge, January 2026
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Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Decoration: Ornamental Thinking

This volume offers a fresh and timely contribution to current discussions of ornamentation, repetition, and affect in aesthetics and philosophy. It provides new insights into how ornamentation shapes ...

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 5d

The page of notes by Foucault from his preparation for this book, which are discussed in the above piece, is available here - eman-archives.org/Foucault-fic...

A page of handwritten notes by Foucault - details in the above post and available at https://eman-archives.org/Foucault-fiches/items/show/7471

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 5d

On the Trail of a Misplaced Reference in Foucault’s Birth of the Clinic progressivegeographies.com/2025/12/21/o...

On the Trail of a Misplaced Reference in Foucault’s Birth of the Clinic

In Birth of the Clinic, Foucault quotes a passage which he incorrectly references to “S.A.D. Tissot, Avis aux gens de lettres sur leur santé, Lausanne, 1767, p. 28”. As part of the work for the new…

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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 6d

Architecture for Warfare came out this week. While much of my writing speculates optimistically at the possibilities of landscape and architectural practice, this research funded by the Graham Foundation, examines some of the limits. www.jovis.de/en/book/9783...

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 6d

And Sur les lignes de vie, Cours mai-juin 1980
www.leseditionsdeminuit.fr/livre-Sur_le...

Cover of book with blue and black text on cream background and wrapper with 'Deleuze 100 ans' and photo of him teaching

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 6d

After Sur la peinture (2023, translated as On Painting) and Sur Spinoza (2024), David Lapoujade has edited two more volumes of Gilles Deleuze's teaching, with Éditions de Minuit:
Sur l'appareil d'État et la machine de guerre: Cours novembre 1979-mars 1980
www.leseditionsdeminuit.fr/livre-Sur_l_...

Cover of book with blue and black text on cream cover (with wrapper with 'Deleuze 100 ans' and photo of Deleuze speaking)

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 6d

Ana Maria Albulescu, Third-Party Mediation and Peace
Processes in the Post-Soviet Space: Norms, Interests and Power – Routledge,
December 2025
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Third-Party Mediation and Peace Processes in the Post-Soviet Space: Norms, Interests and Power

This book examines the success of third-party mediation in conflicts in the post-Soviet space. Third-party mediation is the subject of an extensive literature dealing with the resolution of internal c...

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 7d

Philip Janzen, An Unformed Map: Geographies of Belonging Between Africa and the Caribbean - @dukepress.bsky.social, June 2025
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Elisa Prosperetti
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An Unformed Map: Geographies of Belonging between Africa and the Caribbean

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 8d

Jacques Derrida, Témoigner: Séminaire (1992-1993) – eds. Peggy Kamuf and David Wills, Seuil, November 2025
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Sciences humaines

Témoigner, Jacques Derrida : Des fantômes hantent ces pages, les fantômes de témoins disparus

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 8d

Theresa Delgadillo, Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas - @uofmpress.bsky.social, September 2024
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Shodona Kettle
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Geographies of Relation

Geographies of Relation offers a new lens for examining diaspora and borderlands texts and performances that considers the inseparability of race, ethnicity, and gender in imagining and enacting socia...

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 9d

Christopher Penfield, Deleuze's Foucault: A Virtual Force Ontology - @edinburghup.bsky.social, April 2026
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Deleuze's Foucault

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 9d

Beata Dreksler and Jala Makhzoumi eds. Landscape
Architecture in the Arab Middle East – Routledge, September 2025
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Landscape Architecture in the Arab Middle East

This book explores the challenges facing landscape architecture in the Middle East. It supports the idea that landscape is a multifaceted idea, and examines landscapes architecture as an emerging prof...

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 9d

Magdalena Buchczyk, Martín Fonck, Tomás J. Usón and Tina
Palaić eds., Unearthing Collections: Archives, time and ethics – @uclpress.bsky.social, November 2025 (print and open access)
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Unearthing Collections

Unearthing Collections invites readers to reconsider the ethics of collections and archives through the lens of temporality. Drawing on case studies that range from community protests over glacial sam...

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Reposted by Dave O’Brien

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 10d

Samuel A. Moore, Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons – University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social, September 2025
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Stephen Pinfield
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Publishing Beyond the Market

Publishing Beyond the Market argues that the move to open access should focus less on the free accessibility of research outputs and more on who controls the publications and infrastructures for schol...

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 10d

Hanno Brankamp, Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya - @dukepress.bsky.social, February 2026
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Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya

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Foucault News @foucault-news.bsky.social · 10d

CFP: Contagion, Information, Territory. Conference. Leiden University (2026)

Call for Papers Conference: Contagion, Information, Territory Date: 17-19 June, 2026 Location: Leiden University, The Netherlands Keynote speakers Dr. Ramon Amaro (Design Academy Eindhoven) Prof. Dr. Jasbir Puar…

CFP: Contagion, Information, Territory. Conference. Leiden University (2026)

Call for Papers Conference: Contagion, Information, Territory Date: 17-19 June, 2026 Location: Leiden University, The Netherlands Keynote speakers Dr. Ramon Amaro (Design Academy Eindhoven) Prof. Dr. Jasbir Puar (University of British Columbia) Deadline Call for Papers: 31 January, 2026 PDF of call for papers As new forms of exclusion and colonialism are emerging and old apartheid policies reinvigorated, the movement of people, the spread of disease, and the circulation of information become ever more central to our understanding of war, politics, identity, and government.

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