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
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"Venezuela is not just some chess piece in an abstract game of geopolitics.... We are talking about real people, and as very recent history shows, countless lives are at stake"
Daniel Mendiola on Trump’s extension of the war on terror
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Daniel Mendiola on Trump’s extension of the war on terror
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The ‘war on terror’ has killed millions. Trump is reviving it in Venezuela | Daniel Mendiola
After decades of terrorizing civilians in the name of fighting terror, the White House is trying to do it with even less oversight
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November 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Gordon and Tina Wasson, Slavic Studies in the Cold War, and the Hallucinogenic Mushroom
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Gordon and Tina Wasson, Slavic Studies in the Cold War, and the Hallucinogenic Mushroom
R. Gordon Wasson was Vice President at the American investment bank J.P. Morgan & Co., a major supporter of Slavic Studies in the United States during the Cold War, and fascinated by hallucinog…
progressivegeographies.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Gordon and Tina Wasson, Slavic Studies in the Cold War, and the Hallucinogenic Mushroom
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Donald Sassoon, Revolutions: A New History - @versobooks.bsky.social, November 2025
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Revolutions
Revolutions is a sparkling account of political upheaval and the power of history. We think of revolutions in terms of fleeting events, such as the Fall of the Bastille or the Storming of the Winter P...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Donald Sassoon, Revolutions: A New History - @versobooks.bsky.social, November 2025
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www.versobooks.com/products/337...
Michael J. Ardoline, Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics: Difference and Necessity – @edinburghup.bsky.social, September 2024, paperback March
2026
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Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics
Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics
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November 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Michael J. Ardoline, Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics: Difference and Necessity – @edinburghup.bsky.social, September 2024, paperback March
2026
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2026
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Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.
I'm still relatively new to this journal associate editor business, but it already sucks… I've had a paper on my desk for more than a month now:
Reviewers invited: 12
Of those…
Declined: 5
No response: 7
Reviewers invited: 12
Of those…
Declined: 5
No response: 7
November 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.
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Roland Barthes on who’s allowed to appear on postage stamps:
November 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Roland Barthes on who’s allowed to appear on postage stamps:
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My (2007) review of Cusset’s book “French Theory: Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze et Cie et les mutations de la vie…” is available here if anyone is interested in reading it alongside the excellent comic based on the book that has just come out (I’m reading it now!) www.researchgate.net/publication/...
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
My (2007) review of Cusset’s book “French Theory: Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze et Cie et les mutations de la vie…” is available here if anyone is interested in reading it alongside the excellent comic based on the book that has just come out (I’m reading it now!) www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Gordon and Tina Wasson, Slavic Studies in the Cold War, and the Hallucinogenic Mushroom
progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/23/g...
progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/23/g...
Gordon and Tina Wasson, Slavic Studies in the Cold War, and the Hallucinogenic Mushroom
R. Gordon Wasson was Vice President at the American investment bank J.P. Morgan & Co., a major supporter of Slavic Studies in the United States during the Cold War, and fascinated by hallucinog…
progressivegeographies.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Gordon and Tina Wasson, Slavic Studies in the Cold War, and the Hallucinogenic Mushroom
progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/23/g...
progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/23/g...
François Cusset, Thomas Daquin, French Theory, itinéraires d’une pensée rebelle - La Découverte/Delcourt 2025
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Thanks to @foucault-news.bsky.social for the link
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Thanks to @foucault-news.bsky.social for the link
November 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
François Cusset, Thomas Daquin, French Theory, itinéraires d’une pensée rebelle - La Découverte/Delcourt 2025
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Thanks to @foucault-news.bsky.social for the link
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Thanks to @foucault-news.bsky.social for the link
Lise Vogel, The Contested Domain: Selected Writings on Marxism and Feminism, ed. Kirstin Munro, Pluto, November 2025
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The Contested Domain - Pluto Press
The essential writings of one of the most influential Marxist-feminists of our time
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November 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Lise Vogel, The Contested Domain: Selected Writings on Marxism and Feminism, ed. Kirstin Munro, Pluto, November 2025
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Important new report out on precarious working conditions in Geography in UK HE. Sadly the nature and scale of the findings are grim but unsurprising. www.rgs.org/research/hig...
States of precarity in UK Higher Education geography
Findings from a discipline-focused research project exploring the lived realities of precarious academic work within UK Higher Education geography.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Important new report out on precarious working conditions in Geography in UK HE. Sadly the nature and scale of the findings are grim but unsurprising. www.rgs.org/research/hig...
Daniel Heller-Roazen, Far Calls: On Omens, Slips &
Epiphanies – Zone, September 2025
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Epiphanies – Zone, September 2025
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Far Calls: On Omens, Slips & Epiphanies - Zone Books
Zone Books
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November 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Daniel Heller-Roazen, Far Calls: On Omens, Slips &
Epiphanies – Zone, September 2025
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Epiphanies – Zone, September 2025
www.zonebooks.org/books/227-fa...
Maia Kotrosits, After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity - @dukepress.bsky.social, November 2025
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After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity
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November 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Maia Kotrosits, After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity - @dukepress.bsky.social, November 2025
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Publication Day for our Open Access book w/ Bristol Uni Press
"The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures + Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road"
Edited w/ Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng + Alan Wiig
Link here >> bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...
"The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures + Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road"
Edited w/ Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng + Alan Wiig
Link here >> bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Publication Day for our Open Access book w/ Bristol Uni Press
"The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures + Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road"
Edited w/ Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng + Alan Wiig
Link here >> bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...
"The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures + Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road"
Edited w/ Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng + Alan Wiig
Link here >> bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...
Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood around 1900 - trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen, @versobooks.bsky.social, November 2025
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Berlin Childhood around 1900
Composed in exile in the 1930s and published as a whole only after his death, the miniatures that make up Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood are crystallized images of childhood experienced in a city later...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood around 1900 - trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen, @versobooks.bsky.social, November 2025
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www.versobooks.com/products/323...
Julia Welland, Pleasure and Depletion in Contemporary Militarism - @edinburghup.bsky.social, March 2026
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November 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Julia Welland, Pleasure and Depletion in Contemporary Militarism - @edinburghup.bsky.social, March 2026
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-pleasur... @warwickpais.bsky.social
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-pleasur... @warwickpais.bsky.social
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And essays by @leonhardriep.bsky.social and me about Foucault's two visiting posts at the University at Buffalo in 1970 and 1972 - muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... and muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... All essays and reviews are open access (3/3)
Project MUSE - Foucault at Buffalo in 1970 and 1972: The Desire for Knowledge, The Criminal in Literature, and The History of Truth
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November 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
And essays by @leonhardriep.bsky.social and me about Foucault's two visiting posts at the University at Buffalo in 1970 and 1972 - muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... and muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... All essays and reviews are open access (3/3)
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Call for papers!
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Call for papers!
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
Johanna Luyssen, Les Fragments d'Hélène, Julliard, September 2025
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Thanks to @unsocialtheory.bsky.social for the news of this book, telling the other side of a story...
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Thanks to @unsocialtheory.bsky.social for the news of this book, telling the other side of a story...
Les Fragments d'Hélène de Johanna Luyssen -
" J'ai mis des années avant d'oser écrire sur Hélène. Elle n'était pas que l'étranglée de la rue d'Ulm. Elle était un mystère, une femme aux multiples
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November 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Johanna Luyssen, Les Fragments d'Hélène, Julliard, September 2025
www.lisez.com/livres/les-f...
Thanks to @unsocialtheory.bsky.social for the news of this book, telling the other side of a story...
www.lisez.com/livres/les-f...
Thanks to @unsocialtheory.bsky.social for the news of this book, telling the other side of a story...
@jdsargan.bsky.social, Trans Histories of the Medieval Book: An Experiment in Bibliography - @archumanities.bsky.social, October 2025 (print and open access)
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Trans Histories of the Medieval Book - Arc Humanities Press
Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
@jdsargan.bsky.social, Trans Histories of the Medieval Book: An Experiment in Bibliography - @archumanities.bsky.social, October 2025 (print and open access)
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It was such a pleasure to chat with @julietjfall.bsky.social about her recent book Along the Line, which explores border infrastructure through graphic narrative.
For the new TTiN series of conversations with academics and artists working on infrastructure.
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For the new TTiN series of conversations with academics and artists working on infrastructure.
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Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography, with Juliet Fall
Stream Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography, with Juliet Fall by Thinking Through Infrastructure Network on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free ...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It was such a pleasure to chat with @julietjfall.bsky.social about her recent book Along the Line, which explores border infrastructure through graphic narrative.
For the new TTiN series of conversations with academics and artists working on infrastructure.
m.soundcloud.com/ttinfrastruc...
For the new TTiN series of conversations with academics and artists working on infrastructure.
m.soundcloud.com/ttinfrastruc...
Peg Birmingham, Hannah Arendt and Political Glory: Earthly Immortality in an Age of Superfluousness - @edinburghup.bsky.social, November 2025
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Hannah Arendt and Political Glory
Hannah Arendt and Political Glory
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November 18, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Peg Birmingham, Hannah Arendt and Political Glory: Earthly Immortality in an Age of Superfluousness - @edinburghup.bsky.social, November 2025
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edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hannah-...
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
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November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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Foucault's Multiple Plans for his History of Sexuality progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/16/f... - building on earlier work, and discussing a couple of other bits of evidence about the changing nature of Foucault's plans for this series from the mid-1970s until his 1984 death
Foucault’s Multiple Plans for his History of Sexuality
Some years ago, Philippe Chevallier alerted me to the importance of the 1977 German translation of the first volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality as Sexualität und Wahrheit: Der Wille zum Wiss…
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November 16, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Foucault's Multiple Plans for his History of Sexuality progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/16/f... - building on earlier work, and discussing a couple of other bits of evidence about the changing nature of Foucault's plans for this series from the mid-1970s until his 1984 death
Kathleen E. Kennedy, Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400–1550 - @concordiapress.bsky.social, Spring 2026
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Illuminating Media | Concordia University Press - Concordia University
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November 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Kathleen E. Kennedy, Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400–1550 - @concordiapress.bsky.social, Spring 2026
www.concordia.ca/press/illumi...
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