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 · 1d

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 · 5h

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 · 5h

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 · 5h

"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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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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Reposted by Tim Bale, Stuart Elden, Nils B. Weidmann , and 4 more Tim Bale, Stuart Elden, Nils B. Weidmann, Jörg Oechssler, Brett Christophers, Todd Pugatch, Bartosz Bartkowski

Mark Fabian @markfabian.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 10h

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

Reposted by Tim Bale, Alistair Munro, Stuart Elden , and 1 more Tim Bale, Alistair Munro, Stuart Elden, Jörg Oechssler

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 10h

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Barthes Studies @barthesstudies.bsky.social · 22h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 2d

Of interest to @julietjfall.bsky.social ?

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 2d

François Cusset, Thomas Daquin, French Theory, itinéraires d’une pensée rebelle - La Découverte/Delcourt 2025
www.editions-delcourt.fr/bd/series/se...
Thanks to @foucault-news.bsky.social for the link

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

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 2d

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

www.plutobooks.com

Reposted by Stuart Elden, Richard Shaw

John Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 3d

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.

www.rgs.org

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 3d

Daniel Heller-Roazen, Far Calls: On Omens, Slips &
Epiphanies – Zone, September 2025
www.zonebooks.org/books/227-fa...

Far Calls: On Omens, Slips & Epiphanies - Zone Books

Zone Books

www.zonebooks.org

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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

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Reposted by Stuart Elden, Vincent Tiberj, Fabián Muniesa , and 2 more Stuart Elden, Vincent Tiberj, Fabián Muniesa, Serge Paugam, Nicolas Brisset

Johan Giry @johangiry.bsky.social · 5d

Heureux de partager ici la parution de Marcel Mauss, 𝑺𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒆 𝒈𝒆́𝒏𝒆́𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒆 (@editions-puf.bsky.social), fruit d'un long travail conduit avec Francesco Callegaro, et grâce au soutien de @serge-paugam.bsky.social. Au plaisir d'en discuter!
Le sommaire est consultable ici:
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Reposted by Stuart Elden, Lesley A. Hall, Dolly Jørgensen , and 1 more Stuart Elden, Lesley A. Hall, Dolly Jørgensen, Simon Naylor

Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 5d

Call for papers!

We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.

Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun

Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 5d

Johanna Luyssen, Les Fragments d'Hélène, Julliard, September 2025
www.lisez.com/livres/les-f...
Thanks to @unsocialtheory.bsky.social for the news of this book, telling the other side of a story...

Les Fragments d'Hélène de Johanna Luyssen -

" J'ai mis des années avant d'oser écrire sur Hélène. Elle n'était pas que l'étranglée de la rue d'Ulm. Elle était un mystère, une femme aux multiples

www.lisez.com

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 5d

@jdsargan.bsky.social, Trans Histories of the Medieval Book: An Experiment in Bibliography - @archumanities.bsky.social, October 2025 (print and open access)
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

Trans Histories of the Medieval Book - Arc Humanities Press

Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...

www.arc-humanities.org

Reposted by Stuart Elden, John Hogan, Jason Dittmer

Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 6d

It was such a pleasure to chat with @julietjfall.bsky.social about her recent book Along the Line, which explores border infrastructure through graphic narrative.

For the new TTiN series of conversations with academics and artists working on infrastructure.

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Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography, with Juliet Fall

Stream Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography, with Juliet Fall by Thinking Through Infrastructure Network on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free ...

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 6d

Peg Birmingham, Hannah Arendt and Political Glory: Earthly Immortality in an Age of Superfluousness - @edinburghup.bsky.social, November 2025
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hannah-...

Hannah Arendt and Political Glory

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Reposted by Diane Coyle, Jonathan Portes, Ben H. Ansell , and 32 more Diane Coyle, Jonathan Portes, Ben H. Ansell, Dorothy Bishop, Stephen P. Jenkins, Ruth Mace, Steve Peers, Melissa Terras, Dave O’Brien, Tom Shakespeare, Stuart Elden, Martin Paul Eve, Joan E. Taylor, Charles West, Lyn Robinson, Lesley A. Hall, Roger Luckhurst, Rebecca Sear, Lucy Munro, Kris Inwood, Elaine Treharne, Felicity Callard, Caroline T. Schroeder, Margot C. Finn, Lyndsey Stonebridge, Tim Hitchcock, Michael H. Whitworth, Jonathan Tummons, Larry W. Hunter, Toni Haastrup, Kathleen Kennedy, Carmen M. Mangion, Adrian Streete, Jennifer Thomson, Lorna Hughes

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...

The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?

The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

www.cityam.com

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 7d

Kathleen E. Kennedy, Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400–1550 - @concordiapress.bsky.social, Spring 2026
www.concordia.ca/press/illumi...

Illuminating Media | Concordia University Press - Concordia University

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