Monthly Archives: January 2024

Clare O’Farrell shares some passages from Foucault’s draft of his lecture ‘What is Critique?’ which are included in the recently translated critical edition of the text. “What Is Critique?” and “The Culture of the Self”, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele … Continue reading →

Bruno Leipold, Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought – Princeton University Press, November 2024 In Citizen Marx, Bruno Leipold argues that, contrary to certain interpretive commonplaces, Karl Marx’s thinking was deeply informed by republicanism. … Continue reading →

Benjamin Fraser, “The scholarly journal as puzzle: On time, collaboration and closure” (open access) As the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies (JUCS) closes its tenth year of publication, this second instalment of a two-part editorial turns towards questions regarding the nature of … Continue reading →

French interview with Carlo Ginzburg

Simona Forti, Totalitarianism: A Borderline Idea in Political Philosophy – Stanford University Press, January 2024 In the last decade, we have witnessed the return of one of the most controversial terms in the political lexicon: totalitarianism. What are we talking … Continue reading →

Raoul Vaneigem, Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century – trans. Bill Brown, Columbia University Press, February 2024 Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth … Continue reading →

Thomas Nail, Matter and Motion: A Brief History of Kinetic Materalism – Edinburgh University Press, December 2023 Tells a new history of materialism – from prehistory to the present – that resists stasis, heirarchy and domination