Monthly Archives: September 2025

CFP: The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle, University of Notre Dame, April 3-5, 2025 We seek submissions for papers on any aspect of Foucault’s work, as well as studies, critiques, and applications of Foucauldian thinking. This conference also … Continue reading →

The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe, trans. Tiina Nunally – University of Minnesota Press, August 2025 The definitive English translation of the celebrated story collection regarded as a landmark of Norwegian literature and culture—now in paperback … Continue reading →

Duncan Kelly, Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics – Oxford University Press, November 2025 A major study, of a massive topic – 784 pages! The First World War hardly ended with the formal Armistice … Continue reading →

Don Thomas Deere, The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space – Duke University Press, January 2026 In The Invention of Order, Don Thomas Deere retraces the colonial origins of spatial organization in the Americas and the Caribbean and its … Continue reading →

My review, “An introduction to a non-fascist geography“, of Chris Philo, Adorno and the Anti-Fascist Geographical Imagination (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) is now published online first in Dialogues in Human Geography. If you’d like to read it and can’t access … Continue reading →

Matthew D.C. Larsen and Mark Letteney, Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration – University of California Press, August 2025 (print and open access) New Books discussion with Michael Motia – thanks to dmf for the link This book examines spaces, practices, and ideologies … Continue reading →

Sarah E. Bond, Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire – Yale University Press, February 2025

Aaron Brice Cummings, Baudelaire’s Bitter Metaphysics: Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre – Bloomsbury, September 2024 Baudelaire’s Bitter Metaphysics: Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre reconstructs a philosophical trialogue that might have been expected to take place between Benjamin Fondane, … Continue reading →