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Stuart Elden
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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
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Foucault and his Critics – two minor notes on his exchanges with Jacques Derrida and J.M. Pelorson progressivegeographies.com/2026/02/08/f...
Foucault and his Critics – two minor notes on his exchanges with Jacques Derrida and J.M. Pelorson
Derrida, “A propos de «Cogito et histoire de la folie»” Pelorson, “Michel Foucault et l’Espagne” “Lettre de M. Michel Foucault” Two small things I’ve found or noticed recently which she…
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February 13, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 31 – Paris archives, library problems, and working towards a complete draft progressivegeographies.com/2026/02/12/i...
Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 31 – Paris archives, library problems, and working towards a complete draft
Most of the library cards I’ve used over the years I’ve been working on this project The draft of the Mapping Indo-European Thought manuscript is slowly coming together. I’ve …
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February 12, 2026 at 8:08 AM
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@duncanbell.bsky.social and Douglas Mao, Utopia - @academic.oup.com, March 2026
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February 13, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 31 – Paris archives, library problems, and working towards a complete draft progressivegeographies.com/2026/02/12/i...
Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 31 – Paris archives, library problems, and working towards a complete draft
Most of the library cards I’ve used over the years I’ve been working on this project The draft of the Mapping Indo-European Thought manuscript is slowly coming together. I’ve …
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February 12, 2026 at 8:08 AM
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Andrea Bardin, Hobbes’s Materialist Agenda: The Politics of Early Modern Science – @edinburghup.bsky.social, January 2026
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Hobbes’s Materialist Agenda
Hobbes’s Materialist Agenda
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February 12, 2026 at 7:50 AM
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RP2.20 is out now!

- Fanon-Tosquelles dossier

- Hashem Abushama on the actually existing 'state of Palestine

- Key MacFarlane on Henri Lefebvre in California

- Toni Negri and Sandra Harding obituaries

- Reviews on Lonzi, Fortunati, TJ Clark and more...

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Radical Philosophy issue 220 (Winter 2026)
Philosophical journal of the independent Left since 1972.
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February 11, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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Suzanne Bachelard "educated more than a generation of French historians and philosophers of science". Ties van Gemert writes on her life and work & translates her lecture “Epistemology and the History of the Sciences”.

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February 11, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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Mark Leonard, Surviving Chaos: Geopolitics When the Rules Fail - @politybooks.bsky.social, April 2026
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Cover of book - title in very large letters taking up 2/3 of the image, in red and blue, on black background, moving from nearly all red in bottom left to blue in top right. Author name at bottom, almost all red.
February 11, 2026 at 7:49 AM
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This is a followup to Sunday's post - "Foucault and his Critics – two minor notes on his exchanges with Jacques Derrida and J.M. Pelorson" progressivegeographies.com/2026/02/08/f...
Foucault and his Critics – two minor notes on his exchanges with Jacques Derrida and J.M. Pelorson
Derrida, “A propos de «Cogito et histoire de la folie»” Pelorson, “Michel Foucault et l’Espagne” “Lettre de M. Michel Foucault” Two small things I’ve found or noticed recently which she…
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February 9, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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The differences between the article and book versions of Jacques Derrida’s “Cogito and the History of Madness”
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The differences between the article and book versions of Jacques Derrida’s “Cogito and the History of Madness”
Derrida, “Cogito et histoire de la folie” Derrida, “A propos de «Cogito et histoire de la folie»” Derrida, L’écriture et la différence The cover pages of the 1963 article, the 1964 addendum, and th…
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February 9, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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The Normativity of Marx’s Aristotelian-Hegelianism: An Interview with Michael Lazarus - @jhideas.bsky.social blog
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The Normativity of Marx’s Aristotelian-Hegelianism: An Interview with Michael Lazarus
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February 10, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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Maybe, though that would need to be developed as a claim (and this is hardly the place for that). Here's the last page of Foucault's response to Derrida, which is what I had in mind: p. 27 in the earlier Geoff Bennington translation from the Oxford Literary Review - www.jstor.org/stable/43973...
On one fact at least I am in agreement: it is not as an effect of their lack of attention that before Derrida and in like manner the classical interpreters erased this passage from Descartes. It is by system. A system of which Derrida is the most decisive modern representative, in its final glory: the reduction of discursive practices to textual traces; the elision of the events produced therein and the retention only of marks for a reading; the invention of voices behind texts to avoid having to analyse the modes of implication of the subject in discourses; the assigning of the originary as said and unsaid in the text to avoid replacing discursive practices in the field of transformations where they are carried out. I will not say that it is a metaphysics, metaphysics itself or its closure which is hiding in this 'textual isation' of discursive practices. I'll go much further than that: I shall say that what can be seen here so visibly is a historic- ally well-determined little pedagogy. A pedagogy which teaches the pupil that there is nothing outside the text, but that in it, in its gaps, its blanks and its silences, there reigns the reserve of the origin; that it is therefore unnecessary to search elsewhere, but that here, not in the words, certainly, but in the words under erasure, in their grid , the 'sense of being' is said. A pedagogy which gives conversely to the master's voice the limitless sovereignty which allows it to restate the text indefinitely.
February 9, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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I'm not sure. I don't think he responds to that aspect in his two replies to Derrida - either the original Japanese one or the more developed "My Body, This Paper, This Fire". It might be seen in the comments about textualisation, the trace, and pedagogy perhaps.
February 9, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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But these comparisons - and there are loads more Foucault texts compared on the site - are as resources for people to use, rather than themselves the interpretation. I make them for my work, and share them in the hope someone else might find them useful. progressivegeographies.com/resources/fo...
Foucault’s Revised Texts
Foucault did not continually revise his earlier texts in the way some other authors do. But some of his books and articles do exist in different versions. This is not always fully recognised, and s…
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February 9, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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And Edward Baring's article, which I mention, has a detailed discussion of Derrida's comment about anticolonial struggles in 1963, which he replaces in 1967.
February 9, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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Well, there is a bit about that in the post. I think it's interesting that in 1967 Derrida adds things to integrate this analysis into his wider project, particularly about the metaphysics of presence and the spelling of différance with an 'a'. But I am approaching this from my interest in Foucault.
February 9, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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This is a followup to Sunday's post - "Foucault and his Critics – two minor notes on his exchanges with Jacques Derrida and J.M. Pelorson" progressivegeographies.com/2026/02/08/f...
Foucault and his Critics – two minor notes on his exchanges with Jacques Derrida and J.M. Pelorson
Derrida, “A propos de «Cogito et histoire de la folie»” Pelorson, “Michel Foucault et l’Espagne” “Lettre de M. Michel Foucault” Two small things I’ve found or noticed recently which she…
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February 9, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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The differences between the article and book versions of Jacques Derrida’s “Cogito and the History of Madness”
progressivegeographies.com/2026/02/09/t...
The differences between the article and book versions of Jacques Derrida’s “Cogito and the History of Madness”
Derrida, “Cogito et histoire de la folie” Derrida, “A propos de «Cogito et histoire de la folie»” Derrida, L’écriture et la différence The cover pages of the 1963 article, the 1964 addendum, and th…
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February 9, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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A followup - a detailed comparison of the differences between the article and book versions of Jacques Derrida’s “Cogito and the History of Madness” progressivegeographies.com/2026/02/09/t...
The differences between the article and book versions of Jacques Derrida’s “Cogito and the History of Madness”
Derrida, “Cogito et histoire de la folie” Derrida, “A propos de «Cogito et histoire de la folie»” Derrida, L’écriture et la différence The cover pages of the 1963 article, the 1964 addendum, and th…
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February 9, 2026 at 8:06 AM
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Foucault and his Critics – two minor notes on his exchanges with Jacques Derrida and J.M. Pelorson progressivegeographies.com/2026/02/08/f...
Foucault and his Critics – two minor notes on his exchanges with Jacques Derrida and J.M. Pelorson
Derrida, “A propos de «Cogito et histoire de la folie»” Pelorson, “Michel Foucault et l’Espagne” “Lettre de M. Michel Foucault” Two small things I’ve found or noticed recently which she…
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February 8, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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Foucault and his Critics – two minor notes on his exchanges with Jacques Derrida and J.M. Pelorson progressivegeographies.com/2026/02/08/f...
Foucault and his Critics – two minor notes on his exchanges with Jacques Derrida and J.M. Pelorson
Derrida, “A propos de «Cogito et histoire de la folie»” Pelorson, “Michel Foucault et l’Espagne” “Lettre de M. Michel Foucault” Two small things I’ve found or noticed recently which she…
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February 8, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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Patricia Daley and Ian Klinke, Human Geography: A Very Short Introduction - @academic.oup.com, November 2025
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I've shared the book details before. There is now a @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Caleb Zakarin
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February 7, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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Brahim El Guabli, Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences - @ucpress.bsky.social, November 2025
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Ibrahim Fawzy
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Desert Imaginations by Brahim El Guabli - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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February 6, 2026 at 7:41 AM
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The Story of Capital
For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analysed chapter by chapter - sometimes line-by-line - Marx's three volumes and the Grundrisse. ...
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February 5, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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Lasse Thomassen, Derrida, Deconstruction and Political Theory - @edinburghup.bsky.social, January 2026
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Derrida, Deconstruction and Political Theory
Derrida, Deconstruction and Political Theory
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February 5, 2026 at 7:51 AM