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
It’s UK publication day! Today my book on the colonial roots of French theory is officially out with @politybooks.bsky.social. Thanks for the wonderful blurbs from @stuartelden.bsky.social, @juliango.bsky.social, Adam Rosenthal, and Joachim Whaley. (US publication date: October 6th)
Onur ErdurOut in July! "School of the South: The Colonial Roots of French Theory". More details & pre-orders here: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... @politybooks.bsky.social
L’écrivain belge Raoul Vaneigem, insurgé lyrique contre la société marchande, est mort
L’écrivain belge Raoul Vaneigem, insurgé lyrique contre la société marchande, est mortLe philosophe, un des leaders du mouvement situationniste, prônait une liberté d’expression radicale. Son « Traité de savoir-vivre à l’usage des jeunes générations » avait contribué à l’éclosion du mouvement de Mai 1968. Il s’est éteint mardi 28 juillet à 92 ans.www.lemonde.fr
Book Review Forum 2: Review’s Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography” by Juliet Fall. Reviews by Stuart Elden, Rachael Squire, Giada Peterle, and Klaus Dodds.
The July issue of Dialogues in Human Geography is available now: journals.sagepub.com/toc/DHG/current Including a new guest editorial, six regular article forums, one further engagements forums, and two book review forums! A brief thread follows this post summarizing the issues contents.
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As Alexander Aerts writes for the blog, it was Russo-French philosopher Koyré who first conceptualized the end of history, using it to ask questions about what imparts meaning to human time. His student and friend, Kojève, went on to equate the end of history with the end of politics.
Alexandre Koyré and the Beginning of the End of Historyby Alexander Aertsweb.sas.upenn.eduMarie-Louise Sjoestedt, Louis Renou and a 1940 arrest by the Germans - a short piece about two of Antoine Meillet's brilliant students, their possible marriage and if Renou was arrested. progressivegeographies.com/2026/07/26/m...
Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Louis Renou and a 1940 arrest by the GermansI’ve written about Marie-Louise Sjoestedt (1900-1940), an important scholar of Celtic languages and mythology, briefly before in this series. From various accounts, there are two pie…progressivegeographies.com
Nearly 10,000 online and open access collections of material related to radical, labour and anti-colonial history from around the world now available. Browse the full list here: hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...
radical online collections and archivesI am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…hatfulofhistory.com
ICYMI: Video abstract - Stuart Elden introduces the article 'Foucault as Translator of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker'. (Open Access) www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/video-s...
Video: Stuart Elden on 'Foucault as Translator of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker' — Theory, Culture & Society | Global Public LifeStuart Elden introduces his Theory, Culture & Society article ‘ Foucault as Translator of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker ‘ (Open Access) from the upcoming Special Issue on ‘Foucault Before th...www.theoryculturesociety.org
Details for the 2026 Wheelwright Lecture, the marquee event of the year for Political Economy, at the University of Sydney with Geoff Mann on *Climates of Uncertainty* @geoffmann.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au @mkonings.bsky.social @clairerhiannon.bsky.social
2026 Wheelwright Lecture | Geoff Mann | Climates of Uncertainty - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)What can the ways we wrestle with uncertain futures—like climate models, prediction markets, high-tech promises, or reactionary revanchism—tell us about a world without a “normal”?www.ppesydney.netThe Georges Dumézil-Mircea Eliade correspondence – a chronological listing with publication details or archive locations progressivegeographies.com/2026/07/19/t...
The Georges Dumézil-Mircea Eliade correspondence – a chronological listing with publication details or archive locationsThe mythologist Georges Dumézil and the historian of religions Mircea Eliade had a long-term correspondence and several of their letters have been published. They met during the Second World War, a…progressivegeographies.com
Read below as Juanita Elias reflects on what growing demands for greater public accessibility to academic research mean for the future of international studies 🌟 'Open access and the future of the monograph in International Studies' 📚 Find the full blog here 👉 https://ow.ly/xoPL50Zmigh
Open access and the future of the monograph in International StudiesJuanita Elias reflects on how greater public accessibility will affect long-form publications.ow.ly
Daniele Lorenzini, How Foucault Changed My Life (2026) Daniele Lorenzini, How Foucault Changed My Life. Guest post on Shelley Tremain's blog, Biopolitical Philosophy, 13 July 2026 I first encountered the work of Michel Foucault twenty years ago. It was March 2006, and I was a second-year…
Daniele Lorenzini, How Foucault Changed My Life (2026)Daniele Lorenzini, How Foucault Changed My Life. Guest post on Shelley Tremain's blog, Biopolitical Philosophy, 13 July 2026 I first encountered the work of Michel Foucault twenty years ago. It was March 2006, and I was a second-year undergraduate student at the Scuola Normale Superiore and the University of Pisa. On a rainy winter day, in one of the seminar rooms of Palazzo della Carovana, I heard one of my classmates mention that a famous American professor, based at the University of Chicago, was coming to Pisa to teach a class on Foucault and the history of sexuality.michel-foucault.comPascale Drouet, Shakespeare and the Denial of Territory: Banishment, Abuse of Power and Strategies of Resistance - Manchester University Press, November 2021 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526144041/
Manchester University Press - Shakespeare and the denial of territoryShakespeare and the denial of territory - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Shakespeare and the denial of territory by Pascale Drouetmanchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
It seems ages ago since we finished it, but @fintechcapital.bsky.social, by @paullangley.bsky.social and me, is now out: published today in the US by @princetonupress.bsky.social. It’s published in the UK in about six weeks or so press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Fintech CapitalA thorough examination of the worldwide digital transformation of people’s everyday monetary and financial relations driven by the emergence of FinTechpress.princeton.eduThe Stockholm Appeal against Atomic weapons – Émile Benveniste, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Jean Boulier and Cold War Politics progressivegeographies.com/2026/07/12/t...
The Stockholm Appeal against Atomic weapons – Émile Benveniste, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Jean Boulier and Cold War PoliticsÉmile Benveniste was one of the signatories of the Stockholm appeal on 19 March 1950, against nuclear weapons. The short text of the appeal reads: We demand the outlawing of atomic weapons as…progressivegeographies.comOver the past 10 years, especially, much of my shoe leather has been expended toing and froing between office and library to loan this book out. On my third attempt, I finally got lucky in sourcing an affordable secondhand copy of @stuartelden.bsky.social classic text, which arrived today!😎
Frédéric Chauvaud et al, Les trois maisons de Michel Foucault (2026) Frédéric Chauvaud, Irène Le Roy Ladurie, Jean-Luc Terradillos, Henri-Paul Fruchaud (préface), Benoît Hamet (illustration-photographie), Les trois maisons de Michel Foucault, Presses Universitaires de Rennes (2026) Né à Poitiers,…
Frédéric Chauvaud et al, Les trois maisons de Michel Foucault (2026)Frédéric Chauvaud, Irène Le Roy Ladurie, Jean-Luc Terradillos, Henri-Paul Fruchaud (préface), Benoît Hamet (illustration-photographie), Les trois maisons de Michel Foucault, Presses Universitaires de Rennes (2026) Né à Poitiers, Michel Foucault, philosophe de la folie, de l’archéologie des sciences humaines, du crime, du pouvoir, de la sexualité et de bien d’autres domaines, est l’auteur d’une oeuvre foisonnante qui ne cesse de résonner aussi bien au Brésil qu’en Corée ou au Maroc.michel-foucault.comJason Ānanda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy. Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History (2026) Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy. Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History, University of Chicago Press, 2026. A daring reassessment of the…
Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy. Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History (2026)Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy. Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History, University of Chicago Press, 2026. A daring reassessment of the critical method that reshaped the humanities and an invitation to imagine new ways of doing history. The genealogical method—a mode of historical analysis that shows that what looks timeless is in fact contingent, bound to shifting relations of meaning, knowledge, and power—has become the dominant paradigm of humanistic inquiry.michel-foucault.com