A pile of mostly recently bought books, including Josephine Quinn, How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History; Lyndsey Stonebridge, We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience; Etienne Anheim and Paul Pasquali, Bourdieu et Panofsky: Essai d’archéologie intellectuelle, suivi de leur correspondance inédite; Trevor Wilson, Alexandre Kojève and the Specters of Russian Philosophy and both versions of Juliet Fall’s Bornées: Une histoire illustrée de la frontière and Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography. I’ll be part of a discussion of the book at the RGS-IBG conference in August. The small book with no spine is Josué Harari’s Structuralists and Structuralisms and it and the Donato books are for forthcoming ‘Sunday History‘ posts; the Kojève and Bourdieu and Panofsky ones might also lead to short pieces.
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I don’t know how one looks at the obvious limits of LLMs and thinks hey this substantiates structuralism but:
https://www.jhiblog.org/2025/06/11/language-and-image-minus-cognition-an-interview-with-leif-weatherby/