Monthly Archives: September 2024

Christopher Brown, A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places – Timber, September 2024

Christopher Brown, A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places – Timber, September 2024 A genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto for rewilding the city, the self, and society. … Continue reading

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Koyré in Cairo

Update May 2025: A revised and expanded version of this post is here, as part of the ‘Sunday Histories’ series. There are many things I find interesting in the life and work of Alexandre Koyré, and I’ve already published on … Continue reading

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Antipode book series moves to University of California Press

Antipode book series moves to University of California Press Rooted in the long and heterodox history of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, the Antipode Book Series publishes innovative monographs which push at the boundaries of radical geographical thinking, and which are rigorous … Continue reading

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Taylor Knight, Merleau-Ponty and the Essence of Nature: A Return to Elemental Symbolism – Edinburgh University Press, 2024

Taylor Knight, Merleau-Ponty and the Essence of Nature: A Return to Elemental Symbolism – Edinburgh University Press, 2024 Reconfigures our concept of nature through the concept of the element Taylor Knight reveals the way in which phenomenology initiates a return … Continue reading

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Engin Isin, Citizenship: New Trajectories in Law (Routledge, May 2024) – London book launch October 3, 2024

Engin Isin, Citizenship: New Trajectories in Law – Routledge, May 2024 What comes after citizenship? A discussion with Gargi Bhattacharyya, Rachel Humphris Jef Huysmans, Engin Isin, and Nivi Manchanda, Sivamohan Valluvan as part of (B)OrderS Book Forum at Queen Mary University of London.  Thursday, … Continue reading

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Interviews with Paul North and Paul Reitter on the new edition of Karl Marx’s Capital, Vol. 1

I posted about one of these interviews a couple of days ago, but there are a couple more now available: The Regime of Capital: An Interview with Paul North and Paul Reitter on the new edition of Karl Marx’s Capital, … Continue reading

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Ege Selin Islekel, Nightmare Remains: The Politics of Mourning and Epistemologies of Disappearance – Northwestern University Press, September 2024

Ege Selin Islekel, Nightmare Remains: The Politics of Mourning and Epistemologies of Disappearance – Northwestern University Press, September 2024 Offering a political epistemology of collective mourning Focusing on forms of improper burial in Turkey and Latin America, Ege Selin Islekel … Continue reading

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Paul Simpson, Coexistence: Spacings, Dis-positions, and Being-with Others – Routledge, December 2024

Paul Simpson, Coexistence: Spacings, Dis-positions, and Being-with Others – Routledge, December 2024 very expensive hardback only unfortunately This book aims to develop an account of living together with difference which recognises the tension that we are inescapably with others – … Continue reading

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Jeremy F. Lane, Rancière’s Counter-sociology. Politics, History, Education – Palgrave, September 2024

Jeremy F. Lane, Rancière’s Counter-sociology. Politics, History, Education – Palgrave, September 2024 Jacques Rancière is almost unique amongst contemporary thinkers in his consistent hostility to sociologically informed modes of interpretation. This hostility is not limited to his detailed critiques of Pierre Bourdieu—it … Continue reading

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A dialogue between Bernard Geoghegan and Jussi Parikka (video)

“A dialogue between Bernard Geoghegan and Jussi Parikka” Thanks to dmf for the link.

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