Monthly Archives: September 2023

Adriana Zaharijevic, Judith Butler and Politics – Edinburgh University Press, August 2023

Adriana Zaharijevic, Judith Butler and Politics – Edinburgh University Press, August 2023 Just an expensive hardback only at this point unfortunately

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Gilles Deleuze, Sur la peinture – ed. David Lapoujade, Minuit, 2023

Gilles Deleuze, Sur la peinture – ed. David Lapoujade, Minuit, 2023 De 1970 à 1987, Gilles Deleuze a donné un cours hebdomadaire à l’université expérimentale de Vincennes, puis de Saint-Denis à partir de 1980. Les huit séances de 1981 retranscrites … Continue reading

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CfP: Conference of Critical Legal Geography – 21-23 February 2024, Turin

CfP: Conference of Critical Legal Geography – 21-23 February 2024, Turin

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Melvin L. Rogers, The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought – Princeton University Press, September 2023

Melvin L. Rogers, The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought – Princeton University Press, September 2023 Could the African American political tradition save American democracy? African Americans have had every reason to reject … Continue reading

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Jens Bartelson, Becoming International – Cambridge University Press, October 2023

Jens Bartelson, Becoming International – Cambridge University Press, October 2023

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History of the Present – the Berkeley newsletter on Foucault’s work online via the Wayback Machine

Quite a while ago I posted about History of the Present, the newsletter devoted to Foucault’s work published by Paul Rabinow and edited by him and other people at Berkeley. It used to be online via Rabinow’s Anthropos Lab. At … Continue reading

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Andrew Drummond, The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer: The Life and Times of an Early German Revolutionary – Verso, February 2024

Andrew Drummond, The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer: The Life and Times of an Early German Revolutionary – Verso, February 2024 [Update: thanks to Philippe Theophanidis for a link to the author’s webpage with a lot more … Continue reading

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Steve Mentz, Sailing without Ahab: Ecopoetic Travels – Fordham University Press, April 2024

Steve Mentz, Sailing without Ahab: Ecopoetic Travels – Fordham University Press, 2024; foreword by Suzanne Conklin Akbari. Navigate the Depths of a Timeless Classic, Reimagined. Come sail with I. We’re not taking the same trip, though you might recognize the … Continue reading

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Alberto Toscano, Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis – Verso, October 2023

Alberto Toscano, Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis – Verso, October 2023 Looks great, though tempting to repeat the question of Ernest Mandel’s Late Capitalism – how do we know it’s late? In a world shaken by … Continue reading

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Books received – Eilenberger, Durkheim, Lorenzini, Pietz, Culcasi, Guyau

Wolfram Eilenberger, Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger and the Great Decade of Philosophy; a somewhat battered copy of Émile Durkheim, Lettres à Marcel Mauss; and four books I’ve mentioned here before – Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of … Continue reading

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