Monthly Archives: September 2025

James George Lowder, Anthropocene Cosmographies: A Human Geography of the Earth and Outer Space – Routledge, February 2026 part of the Routledge Planetary Spaces series, edited by Kimberly Peters This book explores relationships between humans and outer space through a geographical lens in … Continue reading →

Dagmar Herzog, The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century – Princeton University Press, October 2024 London Review of Books review by Richard J. Evans Between 1939 and 1945, Nazi genocide claimed the lives of nearly three hundred thousand people diagnosed … Continue reading →

Siân Echard, Facsimile: Making, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts – Penn Press, October 2025 An unprecedented cultural history of reproductions of medieval manuscripts Facsimiles are, or claim to be, exact copies of objects, and medieval manuscripts have long been a focus for … Continue reading →

Nataša Kovačević, Nonaligned Imagination: Yugoslavia, the Global South, and Literary Solidarities Beyond the Cold War Blocs – Northwestern University Press, September 2025 Recovering the literary and intellectual history of anticolonial collaborations Preoccupied with developing a multiethnic, postcolonial culture and seeking an … Continue reading →

The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History: A JHI Blog Forum Introduction by Jonathon Catlin, Paige Pendarvis, and Jacob Saliba In recent years, intellectual history has been said to be undergoing a renaissance at the same time as it … Continue reading →

Theo Riofrancos, Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism – WW Norton, October 2025 “Dazzling in the bold questions it asks.…An immense contribution.” —Naomi Klein An in-depth investigation into the growing industry of green technologies and the environmental, social, and political consequences … Continue reading →

Amit Varshizky, The Metaphysics of Race: Science and Faith in the Nazi Worldview – Routledge< November 2024 New Books discussion with Amir Engel. Thanks to dmf for the link. This book seeks to reframe debates on the conflicting scientific and spiritual traditions … Continue reading →

Mehdi Parsa, Machinic Ontology – Palgrave Macmillan, August 2025 This book considers the becoming-concept of the machine-metaphor. It explores the intersections between this becoming and the development of the concepts of life, organism, and technics. It seeks to introduce universal … Continue reading →