Monthly Archives: November 2020

Charlotte Epstein, Birth of the State: The Place of the Body in Crafting Modern Politics – Oxford University Press, December 2020 This book uses the body to peel back the layers of time and taken-for-granted ideas about the two defining … Continue reading →

Craig Robertson, The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information – University of Minnesota Press, May 2021 The ubiquity of the filing cabinet in the twentieth-century office space, along with its noticeable absence of style, has obscured its transformative role … Continue reading →

Matthew Hart, Extraterritorial: A Political Geography of Contemporary Fiction – Columbia University Press, 2020 is discussed at New Books Network Extraterritorial: A Political Geography of Contemporary Fiction (Columbia University Press, 2020) explores how texts—literary and visual—help us engage with the space … Continue reading →

Betty Rojtman, The Fascination with Death in Contemporary French Thought:  A Longing for the Abyss – Palgrave Pivot, 2020 – with discussion at New Books with Renee Garfinkel This book analyses a cultural phenomenon that goes to the very roots of Western civilization: the centrality … Continue reading →

Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Kärrholm, Animated Lands: Studies in Territoriology – University of Nebraska Press, November 2020 In Animated Lands Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Kärrholm focus on territory as a living phenomenon—and territoriality as an active and constantly reshaping force. … Continue reading →

Robert J. Mayhew and Charles W. J. Withers (eds.), Geographies of Knowledge: Science, Scale, and Spatiality in the Nineteenth Century – Johns Hopkins University Press, August 2020 There is a short blog post about the collection here. Over the past … Continue reading →