Stuart Elden

Roland Barthes’s Seminar on the Metaphor of the Labyrinth, and the presentations by Marcel Detienne, Gilles Deleuze and Pierre Rosenstiehl In 1978-79 Roland Barthes held a seminar at the Collège de France on “The Metaphor of the Labyrinth”. It was another spatial theme, after his discussion of territory and territoriality in Comm…

Adrian Paul Martin and Patrick ffrench both helpfully commented that Pascal Bonitzer’s presentation to this seminar was also published, so I've updated the piece with that reference too. progressivegeographies.com/2026/02/01/r...

Roland Barthes’s Seminar on the Metaphor of the Labyrinth, and the presentations by Marcel Detienne, Gilles Deleuze and Pierre Rosenstiehl In 1978-79 Roland Barthes held a seminar at the Collège de France on “The Metaphor of the Labyrinth”. It was another spatial theme, after his discussion of territory and territoriality in Comm…

I continue this theme in the next piece in this series: Roland Barthes’s Seminar on the Metaphor of the Labyrinth, and the presentations by Marcel Detienne, Gilles Deleuze and Pierre Rosenstiehl
progressivegeographies.com/2026/02/01/r...

How to Publicize Your Book Online And what we should keep when the pandemic is over

Did you publish a book or will you soon? Want to kick back & wait for accolades? Not so fast. Virtually every author doesn't believe their press markets their book enough. You need to do it. You hustle. Lindsay wrote this doing covid quarantine but much of her advice still stands. 1/

Intoxicated Ways of Knowing Argues that intoxication was fundamental to German physiological, psychological, and psychiatric research during the nineteenth century.   Intoxicating substances can be found lurking in every corner ...

Matthew Perkins-McVey, Intoxicated Ways of Knowing: The Untold Story of Intoxicants and the Biological Subject in Nineteenth-Century Germany - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, February 2026 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Roland Barthes’s Seminar on the Metaphor of the Labyrinth, and the presentations by Marcel Detienne, Gilles Deleuze and Pierre Rosenstiehl In 1978-79 Roland Barthes held a seminar at the Collège de France on “The Metaphor of the Labyrinth”. It was another spatial theme, after his discussion of territory and territoriality in Comm…

Roland Barthes’s Seminar on the Metaphor of the Labyrinth, and the presentations by Marcel Detienne, Gilles Deleuze and Pierre Rosenstiehl progressivegeographies.com/2026/02/01/r...

Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI, Since the emergence of ChatGPT, generative AI has been heralded as a technology poised to revolutionize our world

Nick Srnicek, Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI – @politybooks.bsky.social October 2025 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Roland Barthes and the Question of Territory – Animals, Spaces and Sound Roland Barthes, Comment vivre ensemble Roland Barthes, How to Live Together Roland Barthes only taught at the Collège de France for a short period, from the 1976-77 academic year until shortly befo…

A sequel, in part, to "Roland Barthes and the Question of Territory – Animals, Spaces and Sound" progressivegeographies.com/2026/01/25/r...

Roland Barthes’s Seminar on the Metaphor of the Labyrinth, and the presentations by Marcel Detienne, Gilles Deleuze and Pierre Rosenstiehl In 1978-79 Roland Barthes held a seminar at the Collège de France on “The Metaphor of the Labyrinth”. It was another spatial theme, after his discussion of territory and territoriality in Comm…

Roland Barthes’s Seminar on the Metaphor of the Labyrinth, and the presentations by Marcel Detienne, Gilles Deleuze and Pierre Rosenstiehl progressivegeographies.com/2026/02/01/r...

Transforming Night Who owns the night—and what is lost as we flood it with light, worldwide?Darkness has become legible—and contested. Blending archival narrative with on-t...

Sara B. Pritchard, Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution - University of Washington Press, July 2026
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page 1 of the conference call - details in the link

page 2 of the conference call - details in the link

Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History - 24 June 2026 (registration and call for papers)
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/ptih-graduat...

Graveyards From the author of Gothic, a marvelously illustrated cultural history of graves and graveyards, from the earliest known burial sites to today’s green burials

Roger Luckhurst, Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead - @princetonupress.bsky.social, October 2025
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

When I was told I needed open heart surgery, I was terrified. My wife was thrilled: it meant that they could fix it. She was right, of course. It was a big deal, but I made it through. Sending positive thoughts to you and your child - the NHS is remarkable.

Rethinking Capital Punishment Cambridge Core - History of Ideas and Intellectual History - Rethinking Capital Punishment

Peter Garnsey, Rethinking Capital Punishment: The Pre-History of the Abolition of the Death Penalty - @universitypress.cambridge.org, April 2026
www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

Were Paul Virilio and Sylvère Lotringer's dialogues in Pure War ever published in French? They were certainly conducted in French, as a translator is credited for the English, but I can't see an obvious French source. Any help appreciated. www.semiotexte.com/pure-war

Were Paul Virilio and Sylvère Lotringer's dialogues in Pure War ever published in French? They were certainly conducted in French, as a translator is credited for the English, but I can't see an obvious French source. Any help appreciated. www.semiotexte.com/pure-war

Fintech Capital A thorough examination of the worldwide digital transformation of people’s everyday monetary and financial relations driven by the emergence of FinTech

@paullangley.bsky.social and @andrewleyshon.bsky.social, Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance - Zone, July 2026
press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...

Books received – Nietzsche, Eco, Todorov, Zurn, Serres, Wheatland, Jakobson Mostly in recompense for review work for De Gruyter – the two expensive Jakobson volumes; for University of Minnesota Press – Michel Serres, Hermes I: Communication; Thomas Wheatland, T…

Books received - Nietzsche, Eco, Todorov, Zurn, Serres, Wheatland, Jakobson progressivegeographies.com/2026/01/28/b...

Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

István Hont, Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx:
Culture, Needs and Property Rights - eds. Lasse S. Andersen, Béla Kapossy, Richard Whatmore, @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org, January 2026
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Thanks to @duncanbell.bsky.social for the link

Spaces of Anticolonialism Spaces of Anticolonialism is the first book-length account of anticolonialism in Delhi, as the capital of Britain’s empire in India. It pioneers a spatial ...

@stephenlegg11.bsky.social, Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities - University of Georgia Press, March 2025
www.ugapress.org/978082036785...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Saumya Dadoo
newbooksnetwork.com/spaces-of-an...

Roland Barthes and the Question of Territory – Animals, Spaces and Sound Roland Barthes, Comment vivre ensemble Roland Barthes, How to Live Together Roland Barthes only taught at the Collège de France for a short period, from the 1976-77 academic year until shortly befo…

Roland Barthes and the Question of Territory – Animals, Spaces and Sound progressivegeographies.com/2026/01/25/r...

Impasse | Stanford University Press A Next Big Idea Club "Must Read" for August 2025!We need a new realism in the face of global climate catastrophe.Extreme heat, fires, floods, and storms are transforming our planet. Yet instead of ser...

Roy Scranton, Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress - @stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2025
www.sup.org/books/litera...
NDPR review by Arthur Obst
ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/impa...

Peter Johnson, Philosophy for a Time of Crisis: Michel Serres and Climate Change - independently published, January 2026
michelserresclimatecrisis.com

Stuart Elden · Reading Schmitt geopolitically: Nomos, territory and Großraum (2010) Reading Schmitt geopolitically Nomos, territory and Großraum Stuart elden With the 2003 translation of The Nomos of the Earth, a rather different set of Carl Schmitt’s ideas became accessible to an an...

Carl Schmitt's nomos of the earth and the notion of Großraum have been discussed recently, especially in the light of events in the Americas. I wrote about the limited use of his work and its political dangers back in 2010 - available open access www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/read...

Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Essential reading for historians of European political thought - Istvan Hont, Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx (2026)

www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Roland Barthes and the Question of Territory – Animals, Spaces and Sound Roland Barthes, Comment vivre ensemble Roland Barthes, How to Live Together Roland Barthes only taught at the Collège de France for a short period, from the 1976-77 academic year until shortly befo…

Roland Barthes and the Question of Territory – Animals, Spaces and Sound progressivegeographies.com/2026/01/25/r...

Stadt – Land – Boden Eine Kluft zwischen Stadt und Land? Nicht bei der Bodenpolitik: Herausforderungen und Lösungen für mehr Verteilungsgerechtigkeit in der Bodennutzung.

Isabel Feichtner, Susanne Heeg, Anne Klingenmeier, Gesine
Langlotz and Katja Schubel eds., Stadt – Land – Boden: Verbindende Bodenpolitik zwischen Stadt und Land – transcript, August 2025, open access
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Chris O'Kane, Social Constitution and Fetishistic Social Domination in Marx, Lukács, Adorno, and Lefebvre - Brill, March 2026
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Part of the Historical Materialism series, where books are published in paperback 12 months later with Haymarket.

Duncan Kelly, Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics – Oxford University Press, November 2025
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New Books Network discussion with Ryan Trip.
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thanks to JC for the link.

Christophe Bouton, Sur les traces du temps - Minuit, January 2026
thanks to @johnraimo.bsky.social for the link
www.leseditionsdeminuit.fr/livre-Sur_le...

Cover of book with title and US flag with dark markings across it, possibly a silhouette of a person

Anne O. Law, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants - Oxford University Press, March 2026
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