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 · 3d

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…

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 20h

A short piece about Michel Foucault’s 24 May 1979 paper on hermaphrodites to the Arcadie conference, not published in the proceedings, which is in the archives in Paris, and was eventually reworked into the Herculine Barbin introduction. progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/26/m...

Michel Foucault’s 24 May 1979 paper on hermaphrodites to the Arcadie conference

An earlier piece discussed the recently published Les Hermaphrodites, a manuscript by Foucault from the mid-late 1970s, at one point destined for a volume of the History of Sexuality…

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 20h

Charlotte Beradt, The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation - trans. Damion Searls, @princetonupress.bsky.social, April 2025
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The Third Reich of Dreams

“This is the kind of book that haunts your dreams. Essential reading for anyone who has known what it is like to live within a totalitarian state—or is worried they’re about to find out.”—Zadie Smith,...

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Foucault News @foucault-news.bsky.social · 1d

Colloque international Néolibéralismes, néofascismes, néo-populismes. Spectres de Foucault (Paris) (2025)

Colloque international Néolibéralismes, néofascismes, néo-populismes. Spectres de Foucault (Paris) All details at this link Du 10 Décembre 2025 au 12 Décembre 2025 Comprendre pourquoi Michel…

Colloque international Néolibéralismes, néofascismes, néo-populismes. Spectres de Foucault (Paris) (2025)

Colloque international Néolibéralismes, néofascismes, néo-populismes. Spectres de Foucault (Paris) All details at this link Du 10 Décembre 2025 au 12 Décembre 2025 Comprendre pourquoi Michel Foucault fait retour inévitablement dans les généalogies contemporaines des néolibéralismes, c’est s’employer à ressaisir la pertinence du diagnostic du présent qui fut la sienne en 1979 lorsqu’il diagnostiqua le sens et la portée de l’émergence du néolibéralisme au regard de ce qui nous arrive aujourd’hui.

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 1d

The Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings and The Essential Einstein: Public Writings - edited by Diana Kormos Buchwald and Tilman Sauer, @princetonupress.bsky.social, September/November 2025
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The Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings

The ultimate collection of Einstein’s scientific writings on everything from statistical mechanics to general relativity

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 1d

Edward Hall, Power and Powerlessness: The Liberalism of Fear in the Twenty-First Century - @academic.oup.com Oxford University Press, July 2025
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Cover of book with uniformed soldier wearing camouflage, gas mask and helmet, shining a torch or other light

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for the note, David. A book of mine I would be quite happy to become irrelevant… or consigned to history.

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks Toby. It’s a very interesting archive and a nice place to work. I’m well aware of how much more material there is there than I was able to look at in a couple of days.

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 2d

"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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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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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 2d

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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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 2d

Michael J. Ardoline, Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics: Difference and Necessity – @edinburghup.bsky.social, September 2024, paperback March
2026
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Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics

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Mark Fabian @markfabian.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d

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

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d

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Barthes Studies @barthesstudies.bsky.social · 3d

Roland Barthes on who’s allowed to appear on postage stamps:

Revolutionaries are only admitted if time has rendered them inoffensive, and accursed poets only if they have been converted. The stamp represents only what has been consecrated by society. The stamp is well behaved, well behaved as an image.

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve posted similar essays every Sunday through 2025 - hopefully some of the others are also of interest progressivegeographies.com/future-proje...

Sunday histories

Over the past few years, Progressive Geographies has become too much of a noticeboard, sharing information about books, talks or shorter pieces by other people that look interesting, and, much less…

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 3d

Wasson says that Evans told him that the Sherpas knew the link between mushrooms and thunderstorms. He doesn’t elaborate but I’d be happy to share a copy of the chapter if you email me.

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Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · 3d

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/...

Extract from Cusset & Daquin “French Theory: itinéraires d’une pensée rebelle” La Découverte 2025

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 4d

Marc Bloch, Carnets inédits 1917-1943 (édition de Massimo Mastrogregori ; @editionsamsterdam.bsky.social, 2025 ; #skystorians) : www.editionsamsterdam.fr/carnets-ined...

Carnets inédits

Le « laboratoire » de Marc Bloch enfin accessible au grand public. Les deux carnets de Marc Bloch réunis dans cet ouvrage – « Quelques notes de lecture

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 4d

Of interest to @julietjfall.bsky.social ?

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 4d

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

Cover of book, with graphic novel style drawings of Foucault, Baudrillard and others

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Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 4d

And here a post by Stuart Elden that nicely adds up (focus on Limits to Capital and Paris, Capital of Modernity
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David Harvey and Paris: a tribute for his 90th birthday

In a retrospective of his long career, first published in 2021, David Harvey made the following claim: I have written quite a few books over the course of my academic career, beginning with Ex…

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 4d

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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Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 4d

Great stuff by @versobooks.bsky.social: Harvey at 90, a series if posts honouring David Harvey's oeuvre in celebration of his 90th birthday.
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Harvey at 90: A Verso Series

Last year, we celebrated Fredric Jameson's ninetieth birthday with a month long series commemorating his impact on literary criticism, critical theory and philosophy. This month, in honour of David H...

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Reposted by Stuart Elden, Fabián Muniesa, Richard Shaw

John Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 5d

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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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 5d

Daniel Heller-Roazen, Far Calls: On Omens, Slips &
Epiphanies – Zone, September 2025
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Far Calls: On Omens, Slips & Epiphanies - Zone Books

Zone Books

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 5d

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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Reposted by Stuart Elden, Ian Bruff

Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 6d

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...

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 6d

This is a new translation, and might be interesting to compare, although the other translation is quite recent. Does this mean his work is out of copyright?

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 6d

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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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 6d

Julia Welland, Pleasure and Depletion in Contemporary Militarism - @edinburghup.bsky.social, March 2026
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-pleasur... @warwickpais.bsky.social

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