Monthly Archives: March 2021

One editing project moves into production; another one just beginning… More details soon. Update: the Lefebvre project is discussed here.

Helen McCabe, John Stuart Mill, Socialist – McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021 Best known as the author of On Liberty, John Stuart Mill remains a canonical figure in liberalism today. Yet according to his autobiography, by the mid-1840s he placed himself … Continue reading →

Shannon Mattern, A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences – Princeton University Press, August 2021 Computational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Mira L. Siegelberg, Statelessness: A Modern History – Harvard University Press, 2020 The story of how a much-contested legal category—statelessness—transformed the international legal order and redefined the relationship between states and their citizens. Two world…

I don’t believe I shall ever forget the spring of 1937. Every day, except Friday and Saturday when I held the class and seminar at the university, I sat down at my desk immediately after lunch, at two o’clock. If … Continue reading →

There will be a virtual book launch for Jessica Dubow, In Exile: Philosophy, Geography and Judaic Thought (Bloomsbury, November 2020) on 17 March 2021, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm (UK time) IAS Book Launch – In Exile: Geography, Philosophy and Judaic Thought … Continue reading →

The Political Imaginarium: Image, Object, Gesture In his book Le Portrait du roi (1981), Louis Marin famously claims that “The king is only truly king, that is, monarch, in images.” To be sure, Marin’s work explicitly refers back to a premodern political theology of … Continue reading →