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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. progressivegeographies.com

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My 2023 book The Archaeology of Foucault has been translated into Turkish - Foucault'nun Arkeolojisi, trans. Duygu Yurttașen, Istanbul: Ayrinti, 2026. www.ayrintiyayingrubu.com/kitap/foucau...
Cover of book, with inset image from Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Le Carceri d'Invenzione series - black and white etching of the inside of a building with high ceiling, two figures walking up steps and two pendulums above.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just in case any Sartre fans have a spare £4000 lying around... "Les communistes et la paix". Autograph manuscript (fragment) www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/Book...
A handwritten manuscript by Sartre, written in pen on yellow paper
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Jean-Paul Sartre, Cours de philosophie de terminale pris sous la dictée par son élève Maurice Mermet. Lycée Condorcet, 1942-1943, ed. Jean-François Louette, Paris: Gallimard, September 2026 www.gallimard.fr/catalogue/co... Imagine having this, and waiting until you're 100 years old to share it…
cover of book, text in green and black on light background with part of Gallimard's 'nrf' logo; no image
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bill Angus and Lisa Hopkins eds. Reading the Coastline in Shakespeare's Britain - @edinburghup.bsky.social, October 2026 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-reading...
cover of book - green background, with white text and inset map from 16th century showing some of the North Sea and the English coastline
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sander Verhaegh, Logical Positivism: An American History - @academic.oup.com, September 2026 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Cover of book - black with white writing, and inset image of a building being constructed.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also worth noting that on the visit Foucault, Jacqueline and Georges Verdeaux made to Münsterlingen in 1954, there is the remarkable book Foucault à Münsterlingen, edited by Elisabetta Basso and Jean-François Bert (EHESS 2015). editions.ehess.fr/ouvrages/ouv...
Cover of the book, with a black and white photograph of people in carnival masks from the fête des fous. Text is in read and white on a dark blue background.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Élisée Reclus, Un anarchiste en géographie – ed. Joël Cornuault, L’Échappée, September 2026 www.lechappee.org/collections/... - thanks to @johnraimo.bsky.social for the link
cover of book - white and light blue text on a very dark green background image of a landscape.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Silvia Federici, The Development of Lukacs' Realism - Minor Compositions, April 2027 (print and open access) www.minorcompositions.info/the-developm... Thanks to @morton.bsky.social n for the link. Open access pdf available now. archive.org/details/the-...
Cover of book in shades of brown with photograph of Federici smoking a cigarette
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Chris Philo, Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination - Edinburgh University Press, July 2025; paperback January 2027 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-adorno-... @edinburghup.bsky.social Good to see a paperback listed of this important book.
Cover of book, with abstract drawing - black and dark grey on light grey background
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tiffany Fairey, Imaging Peace: Transforming Conflict, Resisting Violence and Building Community through Photography - @edinburghup.bsky.social, August 2026 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-imaging...
Cover of book, with photograph a woman in a white top in a hilly landscape pointing a camera at the viewer
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Michel Foucault, La Croisade des enfants - ed. Arianna Sforzini with Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Flammarion, October 2026 editions.flammarion.com/la-croisade-...
Cover of book, light blue background, with black and white photograph of Foucault in a turtle-neck top.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Meghan M. Garrity, Mass Expulsion: The Politics of Forced Population Removal - Oxford University Press, 2026 global.oup.com/academic/pro... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Miranda Melcher newbooksnetwork.com/mass-expulsion
Cover of book, with title in grey-blue and dark red, and detail of the Angels Unaware sculpture by Timothy P. Schmalz - a large group of people with angel wings in the background.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Bernd Herzogenrath and Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo eds. CONTRADICTionary: An Almanac of Resistance – @openhumanities.bsky.social, 2026 (open access) www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...
Cover of book - black background and white and grey text with no image. The title is is white for 'contradict' and pink for 'ionary'
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Marita Rainsborough: Foucault Today: New Perspectives in Philosophy and Cultural Studies - Transcript, May 2025 www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-7...
Cover of book - blue-green background, with author, subtitle and publisher in small black letters. Title is Foucault in black and Today in white, slightly overlapping.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
David Puaud, Foucault avant Foucault: Archéologie d'une jeunesse - Denoël, September 2026 www.denoel.fr/catalogue/fo...
Cover of the book - light green background with black text. There is a photograph of a young Michel Foucault on a donkey. He is wearing a dark jacket and light trousers. He is on a path with trees behind. I think the donkey's name was Cyrano.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Michel Foucault, Iran, quand la terre tremble: Reportage 1978-1979 - eds. Fabienne Brion, Julien Cavagnis, Sajjad Lohi and Chowra Makarem - Gallimard, September 2026 www.gallimard.fr/catalogue/ir... (1/2)
Cover of book - green and red text on white background with no image.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Richard Fallon, Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860-1935: Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of Geology and Palaeontology - Oxford University Press, April 2025 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Cover of book, with painting showing two naked people, perhaps Adam and Eve, and a range of animals. Title and author in a white box in the middle of the page.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Simone de Beauvoir, Une fois que les femmes ont ouvert les yeux: Écrits et paroles féministes (1947-1985) - Gallimard, April 2026 www.gallimard.fr/catalogue/un...
Cover of book, with Beauvoir photograph in yellow tones on purple background - she is wearing a shirt, jacket and tie. Image is quite tightly cropped so top of her head and one shoulder is cut off.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
What claims to be the Buffalo version in Textual Strategies is actually a different translation of the Paris version with some amendments. The actual Buffalo text was later found, both the manuscript and a transcription. progressivegeographies.com/resources/fo... (4/5)
The first page of the reprint edition of Foucault's Paris lecture.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Three Foucault books in new editions from Gallimard - to coincide with his 100th birthday Les Aveux de la chair: Histoire de la sexualité IV - ed. Frédéric Gros, Gallimard Tel, September 2026 www.gallimard.fr/catalogue/le... (1/5)
cover of book, with inset image of a Roman fresco showing Hermaphroditus seated, with an old satyr standing behind him and a third figure standing
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Jeanne Favret-Saada, L'impossible famille Rivière: Retour sur un triple meutre en 1835 - Gallimard, February 2026 www.gallimard.fr/catalogue/l-...
Cover of book with title and author in red, and series information in green on white background. no image.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Richard Harris, David Manley and Robert Mayhew eds. Geography and a Geographer: Reimagining the Discipline after Ron Johnston - LSE Press/RGS-IBG series, August 2026 - print and open access press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3... Piece about the book on the LSE Press blog. blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/202...
Cover of book, with black and white photograph of Ron Johnston in an office. Pile of papers in the foreground, Johnston looking to the right in the middle ground and bookshelves behind. Title and other information in boxes.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Steven Connor, Gaston Bachelard: An Intellectual Biography - @reaktionbooks.bsky.social, July 2025 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/gaston-...
Cover of book, with black and white photograph of Gaston Bachelard - an older man with a big beard and unruly hair. Title in large capitals; subtitle in italics beneath and author name below.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra - trans. Paul S. Loeb and David F. Tinsley, @stanfordpress.bsky.social, August 2026 www.sup.org/books/theory...
Cover of book on brown background of manuscript pages
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Anthony Iles and Mattin eds., Abolishing Capitalist Totality - Minor Compositions, 2026 www.minorcompositions.info?p=1690
Cover of the book, with title in large letters at 90 degrees, on a dark-red background. There is no image on the cover.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
David Armitage, Teresa M. Bejan, and Felix Waldmann eds. The Political Thought of John Locke: New Perspectives – Oxford University Press, July 2026 global.oup.com/academic/pro... @academic.oup.com @tmbejan.bsky.social
cover of book, black background with text in white, and painting of John Locke (old and thin, with long grey hair)
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Susana Caló & Godofredo Enes Pereira, CERFI – Analysis Everywhere. Militancy, Research, Architecture and Psychiatry - Minor Compositions, 2026 (print and open access) www.minorcompositions.info?p=1661
Cover of book, with white capital letters for title, subtitle and authors. The background is red, with a black handwritten diagram of names across a timeline, with straight and dotted lines connecting them.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Scott Sundvall, Caddie Alford, Ira J. Allen eds. Rhetoric Before and Beyond Post-Truth - @upittpress.bsky.social, December 2026 upittpress.org/books/978082...
Cover of book, showing an abstract figure in brown on off-white, perhaps with a shadow or a black frame around it. Painting is by Charles Wakefield - https://charleswakefield.com/portfolio/paintings/
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
James Clay Moltz, The Politics of Space Security: Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests - @stanfordpress.bsky.social, fourth edition, June 2026 www.sup.org/books/politi...
Cover of book, with image of a satellite above a landscape
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Julie Murray, Mary Wollstonecraft Against Modernity - @stanfordpress.bsky.social, June 2026 www.sup.org/books/litera...
Cover of book, with image of Wollstonecraft in vertical bars across the page. (The image is therefore visible, but only in part)
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Details of the book itself - Ernst Kantorowicz, Radiances: Unpublished Essays on Gods, Kingship, and Images of the State, ed. Robert E. Lerner @cornellupress.bsky.social www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Cover of the book - with Radiances and Kantorowicz's name in yellow capitals, subtitle and editor in smaller white capitals, on black background, with detail of Andrea Mantegna - The Court of Mantua, showing three men in red hats and tunics standing by a pillar.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Eighteen months of ‘Sunday Histories’ progressivegeographies.com/2026/07/01/e... Some of the most visited of these short essays, posted through 2025 and so far in 2026, and some of the ones which I particularly liked.
Two images from posts in the series - The Tel Quel group in front of a monument in China; and Umberto Eco and Jacques Lacan looking at a museum exhibit.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Didier Fassin, Ainsi pensait Michel Foucault: Enquête sur une philosophie pour notre temps - La Découverte, September 2026 www.editionsladecouverte.fr/ainsi_pensai...
Cover of book with photograph of Foucault - tightly cropped image of head, coloured in blue/black
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Salvador Santino Regilme ed., Statelessness and Citizenship Revocation in Europe: Rethinking Politics, Law, Security, and Human Rights - De Gruyter Brlll, July 2026 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Cover of book - text in white in large blue rectangle, with bottom left photograph of barbed wire and border infrastructure
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani (eds.), The Biopolitical Animal - @edinburghup.bsky.social, November 2024, paperback May 2026 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-bio...
Cover of book, with title on off-white background and in the bottom third shadowy images of animals, including a giraffe and elephant
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Julia Kristeva’s Dostoyevsky – from Mikhail Bakhtin and Hans Holbein to psychoanalysis, religion and language progressivegeographies.com/2026/06/07/j...
Hans Holbein, The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb, Kunstmuseum Basel - a long thin painting of a very thin male body
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
David Petruccelli, A Scourge of Humanity: The Origins of Interpol and the End of Empire in Central and Eastern Europe - @academic.oup.com, March 2026 global.oup.com/academic/pro... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Miranda Melcher newbooksnetwork.com/a-scourge-of...
Cover of book - off white background with images of various faces and a blue diagonal cross painted over them. The title is in large white capital letters.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Henri Lefebvre, Éléments de rythmanalyse et autres essais sur les temporalités - new edition, Eterotopia, April 2026 www.eterotopiafrance.com/catalogue/el... (1/2)
Cover of book - text in orange on dark blue background, no image
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Henry Somers-Hall, Reading A Thousand Plateaus: Adventures in Nomad Thought - @edinburghup.bsky.social, May 2026 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-reading...
Cover of book - text in blue on off-white background, with inset image (Turner's Storm Clouds, Perhaps above a Beach - a watercolour painting)
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Proofs of my contribution to Daniele Lorenzini's huge The Foucauldian Mind collection (@danlor.bsky.social; @routledgebooks.bsky.social) www.routledge.com/The-Foucauld...
A photograph of the proofs of my chapter, "Foucault and Structuralism", with a red pen used for the markup
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Maria Meliadò ed. Thinking in the Margins: Marginalia in Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy - De Gruyter Brill, 2026 (print and open access) @dgb-mem.bsky.social www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Cover of book - orange and purple over a handwritten text
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Miles Davis - born on this day 100 years ago. So much choice and amazing music...
A photograph of two shelves of cds and boxsets by Miles Davis and related figures (and some Frank Zappa)
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Daniel Maudlin, A Night at the Inn: Space, Place, and the Elite Experience of Empire, 1650–1850 - @academic.oup.com Oxford University Press, June 2026 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Cover of book, with image of Thomas Rowlandson, The Country Club - five men with wigs standing talking, with serving staff in a doorway at the back.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney eds. Media Rurality – @dukepress.bsky.social, April 2026 www.dukeupress.edu/media-rurality
Cover of books, with fields in the foreground and a city and mountains behind
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Franco Basaglia ed. The Negated Institution: Report from a Psychiatric Hospital - trans. John Foot, Brainstorm Books, October 2025 (print and open access) punctumbooks.com/titles/the-n... @punctumbooks.bsky.social
Cover of book, light background with red square on an angle, with text above and below
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Peter Schöttler, Marc Bloch, une biographie intellectuelle - Gallimard, May 2026 www.gallimard.fr/catalogue/ma...
Cover of book - series and publisher information in brown; author and title in red on white background. No image.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Laurie Parsons, Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse - @lsepress.bsky.socialRGS-IBG series, May 2026 (print and open access) press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3...
Cover of book - text in white on green background, on a black and white image - showing what looks like a river or canal with plastic waste in it, with a motorcycle and other vehicles on the bank above.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Tel Quel goes to China: Sollers, Kristeva, Barthes, Pleynet, Wahl and the Cultural Revolution progressivegeographies.com/2026/05/03/t...
A composite image of three photographs of the Tel Quel group in China (the group with their guides; Barthes and Kristeva; and the group at a tourist site), and the cover of the journal issue 'En Chine'
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Foucault Studies, Issue 39, Spring 2026 (all open access) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56718
Cover of the issue, with image of the Square Michel Foucault sign outside the Collège de France (white letters on green rectangular sign)
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Louise Ridden, Nonviolent Encounters: Unarmed Civilian Protection through Bodies, Spaces and Times – @edinburghup.bsky.social, April 2026 (print and open access) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nonviol...
Cover of book - abstract sculpture in a wood (tree in background, white flowers in foreground)
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