Monthly Archives: January 2023

Aileen Fyfe, Noah Moxham, Julie McDougall-Waters, and Camilla Mørk Røstvik, A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015 – UCL Press, October 2022 (print and open access pdf)

Aileen Fyfe, Noah Moxham, Julie McDougall-Waters, and Camilla Mørk Røstvik, A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015 – UCL Press, October 2022 (print and open access pdf) Modern scientific research has changed so much since Isaac … Continue reading

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La Pensée 410 – special issue on Henri Lefebvre

La Pensée 410 – special issue on Henri Lefebvre Les 24 et 25 mars 2022 s’est tenu à Paris un colloque, organisé par La Pensée, le Groupe d’études du matérialisme rationnel et la Fondation Gabriel Péri, consacré à l’étude et à l’hommage … Continue reading

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Kristi Sweet, Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: The Territory of the Third Critique – Cambridge University Press, January 2023 [and open access Introduction]

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Kristi Sweet, Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: The Territory of the Third Critique – Cambridge University Press, January 2023 Another expensive hardback, but looks interesting… [update: the Introduction is available open access] Kant’s Critique…

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Victor Konrad and Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, Border Culture: Theory, Imagination, Geopolitics – Routledge, December 2022

Victor Konrad and Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, Border Culture: Theory, Imagination, Geopolitics – Routledge, December 2022 This book introduces readers to the cultural imaginings of borders: the in-between spaces in which transnationalism collides with geopolitical cooperation and contestation. Recent debates about … Continue reading

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Italo Calvino, The Written World and the Unwritten World: Collected Non-Fiction, translated by Ann Goldstein – Penguin, January 2023

Italo Calvino, The Written World and the Unwritten World: Collected Non-Fiction, translated by Ann Goldstein – Penguin, January 2023

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Michel Foucault Werner Schroeter, la conversation (film) (1981)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Poster for sale – click picture MICHEL FOUCAULT WERNER SCHROETER, LA CONVERSATION (CARNET FILMÉ : 3 décembre 1981) Année : 1981. Durée : 1 H 30′ Voir aussi BNF Catalogue Général An English translation of…

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Jacques Lacan, Premiers écrits, Seuil, January 2023 [updated]

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Jacques Lacan, Premiers écrits, Seuil, January 2023 Avant que d’être psychanalyste, Lacan a été psychiatre. On n’aurait pas republié ses premiers écrits s’ils n’invitaient à une lecture après coup. Que nous apprennent-ils de la formation…

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Mark Atherton, Kazutomo Karasawa, Francis Leneghan (eds), Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature – Brepols, 2002

Mark Atherton, Kazutomo Karasawa, Francis Leneghan (eds), Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature – Brepols, 2002 Looks interesting, but that price! Across three thematically-linked sections, this volume charts the development of competing geographical, national, and imperial identities … Continue reading

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Twenty one 1000 word encounters with Lauren Berlant’s work at The Geographical Journal

Twenty one 1000 word encounters with Lauren Berlant’s incredible work Encountering Berlant Part 1: Concepts otherwise Encountering Berlant Part 2: Cruel and other optimisms Open access – thanks to Ben Anderson for the link

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Books received – Roland Barthes

Some lecture courses by Roland Barthes, and Michael Moriarty’s study of him, all bought second-hand.

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