Monthly Archives: March 2022

Saptarishi Bandopadhyay, All Is Well: Catastrophe and the Making of the Normal State – OUP, April 2022 Disasters are all around us. In everyday parlance, disasters are understood as exceptional occurrences that destroy human life, property, and resources. For centuries, people … Continue reading →

Jing Tsu, Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China – Allen Lane, January 2022 [paperback January 2023 – UK; USA] China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations, yet just a century … Continue reading →

Susan Slyomovics and Lorenzo Veracini (eds.), Race, Place, Trace: Essays in Honour of Patrick Wolfe – Verso, February 2022 This edited collection celebrates Patrick Wolfe’s contribution to the study and critique of settler colonialism as a distinct mode of domination. … Continue reading →

Jeanne Morefield, Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory – Rowman & Littlefield, May 2022 Unsettling the World is the first book-length treatment of Edward Said’s influential cultural criticism from the perspective of a political theorist. Arguing that the generative … Continue reading →

Veronica Della Dora, Where Light in Darkness Lies: The Story of the Lighthouse – Reaktion, March 2022 Suspended between sea and sky, battered by the waves and the wind, lighthouses mark the battlelines between the elements. They guard the boundaries … Continue reading →

Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, Hatred of Sex – University of Nebraska Press, April 2022 Hatred of Sex links Jacques Rancière’s political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche’s identification of a fundamental perturbation at the heart of … Continue reading →

Mark Neocleous, The Politics of Immunity: Security and the Policing of Bodies – Verso, March 2022 Our contemporary political condition is obsessed with immunity. The immunity of bodies and the body politic; personal immunity and herd immunity; how to immunize … Continue reading →