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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 .. more

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 6h
Thanks Ulf - glad it was of interest.

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 7h
A short piece commemorating 100 years since the signing of the Locarno Treaties and some discussion of territorial integrity today
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100 years since the Locarno Treaties and territorial integrity today
On 1 December 1925, the Locarno Treaties were signed by Germany, France, Great Britain, Belgium and Italy, with some of the additional treaties also including Poland and Czechoslovakia as signatori…
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 1d
James Cheshire, The Library of Lost Maps - @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, October 2025
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Christine Gessler - thanks to dmf for the link
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The Library of Lost Maps
'A magnificent book that sings of the romance and mystery that only old maps possess' EDWARD BROOKE-HITCHING'Astonishingly fresh and insightful ... A triumph' A…
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 1d
Juan Domingo Sánchez Estop, Althusser and Spinoza: Detours and Returns - trans. Élise Hendrick ed. Dan Taylor, @edinburghup.bsky.social, November 2025
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Althusser and Spinoza
Althusser and Spinoza
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 1d
Hugo Drochon @hdrochon.bsky.social, Elites and Democracy - @princetonupress.bsky.social, January/March 2026
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Thanks to @johnraimo.bsky.social for the link
Elites and Democracy
Why elites always rule democracies—and why recognizing that reality can help us respond to the crisis of democracy today
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 2d
@moderation.bsky.app being a bit too cautious here about a book cover with a statue...

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 2d
Salvador Santino Regilme and Obert Hodzi, United States and Chinese Foreign Assistance and Diplomacy: Aid for Dominance – @manchesterup.bsky.social, January 2026
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Manchester University Press - United States and Chinese foreign assistance and diplomacy
United States and Chinese foreign assistance and diplomacy - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of United States and Chinese foreign assistance and diplomacy by Salvador Santino Regilme
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 2d
Filippo Del Lucchese, Constituent Power in Early Modern Political Philosophy: From La Boétie to Hobbes - @edinburghup.bsky.social, November 2025
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Constituent Power in Early Modern Political Philosophy
Constituent Power in Early Modern Political Philosophy
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 2d
Delia Duong Ba Wendel, Rwanda's Genocidal Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty - @dukepress.bsky.social, November 2025 (print and open access)
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Rwanda′s Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty
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Hugo Drochon @hdrochon.bsky.social · 3d
Reinhart Koselleck, Istvan Hont and Melvin Richter at a conference in London 1993

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 3d
Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng, Jonathan Silver and Alan
Wiig eds. The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road – @brisunipress.bsky.social, November 2025 (print and open access)
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The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative
The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative - Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road; This book explores the unequal ways that China’s Belt and Road Initiative, comm...
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 3d
Peter J. Verovšek, Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist - @columbiaup.bsky.social, March 2026 @pjv.bsky.social
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Jürgen Habermas | Columbia University Press
Jürgen Habermas is Germany’s most important postwar philosopher, the leading figure of the Frankfurt School in this period. He is best known for the conc... | CUP
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 4d
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 · 4d
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 · 4d
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 · 5d
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 · 5d
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

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 6d
Thank you for the note, David. A book of mine I would be quite happy to become irrelevant… or consigned to history.

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 6d
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 · 6d
"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 · 6d
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 · 6d
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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Mark Fabian @markfabian.bsky.social · 6d
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.
bartoszbartk.com Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 6d
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 · 6d
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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Barthes Studies @barthesstudies.bsky.social · 6d
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.

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 7d
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 · 7d
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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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 7d
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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Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · 7d
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 · 8d
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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