Stuart Elden

Diego Donna, Spinoza and the Rise of Systems: Reception and Critique in the French Enlightenment - trans. Brent Waterhouse, @edinburghup.bsky.social, February 2026
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The Anthem Companion to Henri Lefebvre | Anthem Press Explore more about this title.

Tilman Schwarze and Matt Dawson eds. The Anthem Companion to Henri Lefebvre - Anthem, March 2026
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NAPOLÉON ET L'ISLAM « La religion de Mahomet est la plus belle » ; « J’aime l’islam, vénère le Prophète, respecte le Coran » ; « J’aime mieux la religion de Mahomet. Elle est moins ridicule que la nôtre ». Ainsi parla Na...

Louis Blin, Napoléon et l'Islam, Erick Bonnier, 2025 - www.erickbonnier-editions.com/boutique/NAP...
A sequel on Napoléon et l'Arabie is forthcoming.

Author Phil Harris on his retirement with a view of the Round Reading Room of 1857. Photo: BL Corporate Archive, PH 034/342

We’re delighted to share that A History of the British Museum Library, 1753–1973 by P. R.

Harris is now digitised and freely available to all interested in the history of the Museum and librarianship.

Find out more here: link.bl.uk/vvx

The Faces of the Adversary: The Enigma of Jacob and the Angel The Faces of the Adversary: The Enigma of Jacob and the Angel, Roberto Esposito's poetic and historically layered new book draws on a famous, and famously opaque, passage from the Old Testament to she...

Roberto Esposito, The Faces of the Adversary: The Enigma of
Jacob and the Angel – trans. Zakiya Hanati, @politybooks.bsky.social, February 2026
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The Plantation Ideal by Wendy Wolford - 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.

Wendy Wolford, The Plantation Ideal: Landscapes of
Extraction in Mozambique – @ucpress.bsky.social, November 2025
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Books discussion with Miranda Melcher
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Axis of Empire Ironic plot twists and colorful characters abound in Afshin Matin-Asgari’s accessible history of relations between the United States and Iran. The missionaries and educators who descended on Iran in t...

Afshin Matin-Asgari, Axis of Empire: A History of Iran–US Relations – @versobooks.bsky.social , January 2026
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Women Working the Past This book offers a new history of women's integral contribution to archaeology, history, and heritage in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain and beyond. Born out of the Beyond Notability project...

Amar Thorton and Katherine Harloe, Women Working the Past: Archaeology, History and Heritage in Britain, 1870–1950 - University of London Press, December 2026
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JOB

Assistant Professor of Political Theory
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

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A Line Is Followed, a Strategy Is Constructed – An Interview with Henri Lefebvre (1979) - Historical Materialism This interview with Henri Lefebvre was conducted for the French Communist Party (PCF) journal La Nouvelle Critique in 1979. As the interview shows, Lefebvre's renewed engagement with the PCF was neith...

Now online: 'A Line Is Followed, a Strategy Is Constructed – An Interview with Henri Lefebvre (1979)' trans. Roberto Mozzachiodi.

A 1970 French interdisciplinary seminar on structuralism, organised by Gilbert Gadoffre, André Lichnerowicz and François Perroux, and attended by Suzanne Bachelard, Pierre Bourdieu, Georges Canguilhem... An interdisciplinary seminar on structuralism was held in France in September 1970. Attended by a wide range of speakers, it was an interesting moment in the French reception of this trend in ‘Fren…

A 1970 French interdisciplinary seminar on structuralism, organised by Gadoffre, Lichnerowicz and Perroux, and attended by Suzanne Bachelard, Bourdieu, Canguilhem, Foucault, Martinet, Monod, Ramnoux, Serres, Simonden and Thom
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Cover of book, with satellite view of the Suez Canal

@janeijking.com, The Technocratic International: Experts and the Making of a World from Nowhere - @academic.oup.com, July 2026
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Sunday Histories – thematic organisation On the main ‘Sunday Histories’ page I’ve been listing the posts in this series chronologically, but it might also make sense to group them thematically. So far the list is mainly …

Thanks, yes, one of the things I'm trying to do with this series of pieces is to sketch out a number of the connections in a network of ideas. progressivegeographies.com/future-proje...

And I’ve now corrected the misspelling of Simondon in the linked post.

screenshot of p. 174 of Malan's summary - Monod is indicated by 'Mo'

Much the same answer - he took part in the discussions but from Malan's summary he didn't seem to give a paper. See, i.e. p. 174 -

Part of the text of Malan's summary of the conference. Serres's comment is at the beginning of the second paragraph.

I don't know, but I wasn't particularly looking for his contribution. Malan's summary says he was there, but he doesn't seem to have given a paper. He indicates a brief comment about economics and econometrics and what makes something mathematicisable (p. 184; Serres is marked as 'Se').

A 1970 French interdisciplinary seminar on structuralism, organised by Gilbert Gadoffre, André Lichnerowicz and François Perroux, and attended by Suzanne Bachelard, Pierre Bourdieu, Georges Canguilhem... An interdisciplinary seminar on structuralism was held in France in September 1970. Attended by a wide range of speakers, it was an interesting moment in the French reception of this trend in ‘Fren…

A 1970 French interdisciplinary seminar on structuralism, organised by Gadoffre, Lichnerowicz and Perroux, and attended by Suzanne Bachelard, Bourdieu, Canguilhem, Foucault, Martinet, Monod, Ramnoux, Serres, Simonden and Thom
progressivegeographies.com/2026/03/01/a...

Onur Erdur, School of the South: The Colonial Roots of French Theory - trans. Andrew Brown, @politybooks.bsky.social, July 2026
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Defending National Treasures | Stanford University Press Defending National Treasures explores the fate of art and cultural heritage during the Nazi occupation of France. The French cultural patrimony was a crucial locus of power struggles between German an...

I'm late in noticing this, but I've just read her previous book, Defending National Treasures: French Art and Heritage Under Vichy (Stanford University Press, 2011).
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Elizabeth Campbell, Museum Worthy: Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe - Oxford University Press, August 2024
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Farewell to William E. Connolly We are very sad to learn of the death of William E. Connolly earlier this week at the age of 88. Connolly was the author of six books with Duke University Press, the subject on an edited collection…

We were very sorry to learn of the death of political theorist William E. Connolly this week. He published six books with us. Here is our appreciation.

Face Politics The face is central to contemporary politics. In Deleuze and Guattari’s work on faciality we find an assertion that the face is a particular politics, and dismantling the face is also a politics. Thi...

Jenny Edkins, Face Politics (Routledge, 2015) is very good - www.routledge.com/Face-Politic...

The Face What’s in a face? The face is the only part of the body where all the senses come together and, over the course of human history, has come to represent who we are as individuals. We unlock our phones...

@fayboundalberti.bsky.social Fay Bound-Alberti, The Face: A Cultural History - Allen Lane, February 2026
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Peter C. Grace, The Intelligence Intellectuals: Social
Scientists and the Making of the CIA – Georgetown University Press, January 2026
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Being and Time A new, more accessible translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the twentieth century Martin Heidegger’s seminal work Sein und Zeit...

Martin Heidegger, Being and Time: An Annotated Translation - trans. Cyril Welch, @yalepress.bsky.social, February 2026
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Stephen Dozeman
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Agency Beyond Confinement: Rethinking the Relationship Between Agency and Structure in the Contemporary World What does it mean to be confined and what forms of life, resistance, and care emerge in response? Agency Beyond Confinement rethinks the social life of confinement by refusing binaries: structure vs. ...

Luisa T Schneider, Robbert Dillema, and Paola Rebughini eds. Agency Beyond Confinement Rethinking the Relationship Between Agency and Structure in the Contemporary World - Routledge, March 2026
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Foucault Resources A list of the resources on this site relating to Foucault – bibliographies, audio and video files, some textual comparisons, some short translations, etc. For details of English translations …

Much more extensive research resources on Foucault are listed here - progressivegeographies.com/resources/fo... - bibliographies, textual comparisons, audio and video links, etc.

I've not shared many research resources from my Indo-European thought project, but there are a few other resources, including some textual comparison for texts by Georges Dumézil, and audio and video recordings of him, here
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Saussure’s notes on German legends – cross-references between the different editions of these manuscripts I’ve previously discussed reading Ferdinand de Saussure’s work, mainly around the variant texts of his posthumously published Course on General Linguistics, and some of his early work on …

There is also a list of Ferdinand de Saussure’s notes on German legends – and cross-references between the different editions of these manuscripts. If you've ever tried to find one of these texts, I hope this concordance is useful. progressivegeographies.com/resources/in...