A pile of recently bought or sent books including The Anti-Security Collective, The Security Abolition Manifesto, Miguel de Beistegui, Lacan: A Genealogy, Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin, Zoroastre, Vladimir Nabokov’s translation of The Song of Igor’s Campaign, the most recent issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas, Maan Barua, Plantation Worlds, and a somewhat battered first edition of Georges Dumézil’s La Religion romaine archaïque.

One of the collective sent the manifesto, and Barthes and de Beistegui were in recompense for review work. Duke University Press kindly sent the copy of Plantation Worlds. I have an essay in the journal –  “Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity” – and the first edition of Dumézil’s text will be useful as I continue working through his books in detail (I already have the second, revised edition and translation). The article is behind a paywall, but email me if you don’t have institutional access and would like to see a copy.