Monthly Archives: January 2023

Andrea Mubi Brighenti, Elias Canetti and Social Theory: The Bond on Creation – Bloomsbury, January 2023 Elias Canetti is a key thinker in the trend towards the renewal of social theory for the 21st century. He is increasingly being recognised in the … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Territorial Bodies: World Culture in Crisis Saturday 25th February 2023, University of Warwick [update: registration now open] Keynote Addresses: Dr. Lauren Wilcox, University of Cambridge Prof. Kathryn Yusoff, Queen Mary University London Call for Papers…

George Steinmetz, The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire – Princeton University Press, April 2023 The Introduction is open access here In this provocative and original retelling of the history of French social thought, … Continue reading →

John Guillory, Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study – University of Chicago Press, December 2022 A sociological history of literary study—both as a discipline and as a profession. As the humanities in higher education struggle with a labor … Continue reading →

Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences – Columbia University Press, August 2022; reviewed at London Review of Books by John Whitfield – doesn’t seem to require subscription to read. The books looks important, but the … Continue reading →

Stephanie C. Kane, Just One Rain Away: The Ethnography of River-City Flood Control – McGill-Queen’s University Press, December 2022 Not long ago it seemed flood control experts were close to mastering the unruly flows funnelling toward Hudson Bay and the … Continue reading →

Ellen Meiksins Wood, A Social History of Western Political Thought – Verso, August 2022