Most of this year was spent working on my very long manuscript Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France, which is coming together but has been hard work to reach this point. I have shared a few updates on the research and writing here. There has been slow progress from my side on the new edition of Foucault’s Birth of the Clinic, though Marie Satya McDonagh has produced a complete translation of the second edition, and editorial work should pick up pace next year.

Some of the pieces published this year were written a while ago, some even before the heart problems which have changed so much for me. 

I’ve noted the pieces open access below, but if you can’t access something, let me know. The articles out this year are:

“Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France”, History of European Ideas, Vol 51 No 2, 2025, 276-89 (open access).

“Foucault, Dynastics and Power Relations”, Philosophy, Politics and Critique, Vol 2 No 1, 2025, 40-57.

Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, translated by Federico Testa, edited and introduced by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Historical Materialism, online first (open access).

“Foucault in Buffalo in 1970 and 1972: The Desire for Knowledge; The Criminal in Literature; and The History of Truth“, Foucault Studies 38, 2025, 129-40 (open access).

I also began a series of posts, which I managed to keep to a weekly posting schedule. Some of these relate directly to the work I’ve been doing for the Mapping Indo-European Thought manuscript (on Benveniste, Dumézil and Lévi-Strauss), others connect in some way (Jakobson, Koyré, Sjoestedt, Raucq, Wasson), others are on older or potential future interests (Arendt, Foucault, territory, monsters, prisoners of war). The ‘Sunday Histories’ are listed chronologically here and thematically here – I say more about the year of posts here.

I spent the beginning of the year at the Remarque Institute at New York University, which was a wonderful experience. I made the most of the time to visit lots of archives in New York and nearby, and took side trips to Harvard and MIT, Princeton and Chicago. I gave talks at Buffalo and Brown, and at NYU. A couple of other talks were given online, and I also spoke at a workshop in Oxford. You can listen to some of these talks on this site:

“Indo-European Thought at the Collège de France”, Social Anthropology research seminar, University of St Andrews, 29 November 2024 (audio)

“The Ideology of the Indo-Europeans”, Future of Ideologies webinar, University of Nottingham, 29 January 2025 (audio)

(There is quite a lot of overlap between these two talks – the Nottingham one is an edited version of the St Andrews talk, with fewer examples, but some additional material on ideology.)

“Émile Benveniste and the Sogdian Word for ‘Knee'”, Troubling Classical Bodies, Remarque Institute, New York University, 11 April 2025 (video with Brooke Holmes and Anurima Banerji; text of my talk)

“Before California: Foucault’s Early Visits to the Americas”, Remembering/Forgetting Foucault: Reassessing a Critical Legacy workshop, Maison Française, Oxford, 16 June 2025 (audio)

I will try to post some other recordings soon.

I also did a few book reviews, all require subscription, but again, happy to share:

“Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity, by Marcelo Hoffman“, Political Theory, Vol 53 No 1, 2025, 110-14.

“Michael Behrent, Becoming Foucault: The Poitiers Years”, The Journal of Modern History 97 (3), 2025, 744-45.

“An introduction to a non-fascist geography“, Dialogues in Human Geography, review forum on Chris Philo’s Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination, online first.

I also have reviews forthcoming on Juliet Fall’s Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography, and Ernst Kantorowicz, Radiances: Unpublished Essays on Gods, Kingship, and Images of the State, edited by Robert E. Lerner.

Further ahead, I also have a couple of book chapters in production:

“Foucault and Structuralism” in Daniele Lorenzini (ed.), The Foucauldian Mind, London: Routledge, forthcoming 2026.

“Benveniste, Dumézil and Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France”, in Roger Woodard (ed.), Cambridge History of Mythology and Mythography, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

And a piece on “Shakespeare and Landscape” which is with editors.

I’ll share the academic books I liked this year tomorrow.