Monthly Archives: November 2024

Reiner Schürmann, Selected Writings and Lecture Notes – Diaphenes, 2019-

Reiner Schürmann, Selected Writings and Lecture Notes – Diaphenes, 2019- I hadn’t realised this project was ongoing… five volumes already and two more in December.

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Eunsong Kim, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property – Duke University Press, August 2024 (open access introduction)

Eunsong Kim, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property – Duke University Press, August 2024 Open access introduction at the link above In The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise … Continue reading

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Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Three Tracts on City Government and Related Writings, ed. and trans. George Garnett and Magnus Ryan – Cambridge University Press, 2024

Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Three Tracts on City Government and Related Writings, ed. and trans. George Garnett and Magnus Ryan – Cambridge University Press, 2024 The medieval jurist Bartolus of Sassoferrato (d. 1357) has long been accorded seminal importance by historians of political thought. This volume … Continue reading

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Edward Said Memorial Lecture – Étienne Balibar, “Geometries of Imperialism in the 21st Century”, November 2024 (video)

Edward Said Memorial Lecture – Étienne Balibar, “Geometries of Imperialism in the 21st Century”, November 2024 (video) The Department of English and Comparative Literature hosted in November 2024 the Edward Said Memorial Lecture, titled ‘ Geometries of Imperialism in the … Continue reading

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Kristof Smeyers, Supernatural Bodies: Stigmata in Modern Britain and Ireland – Manchester University Press, September 2024

Kristof Smeyers, Supernatural Bodies: Stigmata in Modern Britain and Ireland – Manchester University Press, September 2024 This book is the first in-depth study of the changing perceptions and receptions of supernatural bodies in modern Britain and Ireland. It focuses on … Continue reading

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The RTE interview of Gillian Rose (audio)

The RTE interview of Gillian Rose (audio) Thanks to Robert Lucas Scott for the link. Update 21 November: I should have given the link to the transcription published in Theory, Culture and Society in 2008, edited by Vincent Lloyd. It’s … Continue reading

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Jacob Chamberlain, Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal: Rights, Law, and Resistance against Territory’s Exclusions – University of Georgia Press, March 2025

Jacob Chamberlain, Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal: Rights, Law, and Resistance against Territory’s Exclusions – University of Georgia Press, March 2025 Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal details the story of Migrant Justice, a migrant rights organization led … Continue reading

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Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Foucault, Derrida, Arendt and Scholem

Books sent in recompense for review work for University of Chicago Press – three of the four volumes of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Mythologies (the other one is out of print), Michel Foucault, What is Critique? and The Culture of the Self, … Continue reading

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Christopher Falzon, Foucault and the History of Philosophical Transcendence: Freedom, Nature and Agency – Bloomsbury, August 2024

Christopher Falzon, Foucault and the History of Philosophical Transcendence: Freedom, Nature and Agency – Bloomsbury, August 2024 In an original approach to Foucault’s philosophy, Christopher Falzon argues for a reading of Foucault as a philosopher of finite transcendence, and explores … Continue reading

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Derrida at NYU, 21 November 2024 – online and in-person

Derrida at NYU, 21 November 2024 – online and in-person

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