Monthly Archives: December 2025

Iftekhar Iqbal, The Range of the River: A Riverine History of Empire across China, India, and Southeast Asia – Stanford University Press, December 2025 Spanning nearly 4 million square kilometers, the Tibetan river system—including the Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween, Mekong, Red, … Continue reading →

Sebastian Truskolaski, Adorno and the Ban on Images – Bloomsbury, December 2020 New Books discussion with Lukas Hoffman – thanks to dmf for the link This book upends some of the myths that have come to surround the work of … Continue reading →

Joel Wainwright, The End: Marx, Darwin, and the Natural History of the Climate Crisis – Verso, November 2025 How Marx provides new insights into our environmental crisis when read alongside Darwin In this pathbreaking study, Joel Wainwright shows how deeply Darwin … Continue reading →

Federico Marcon, Fascism: The History of a Word – University of Chicago Press, June 2025 I’ve shared news of the book before, now there is a two-part interview at the Journal of the History of Ideas blog (part I; part … Continue reading →

Elena Del Rio, Techno-Ecologies of Bill Viola and Gilbert Simondon: The Birth of Form – Edinburgh University Press, November 2025

Daniel Frost and Evan Smith eds., In solidarity, under suspicion: The British far left from 1956 – Manchester University Press, November 2025 In solidarity, under suspicion is the successor volume to Against the grain (2014) and Waiting for the revolution (2017), complementing analysis … Continue reading →

Marc Bloch, Carnets Inédits 1917-1943 – Éditions Amsterdam, October 2025 Le « laboratoire » de Marc Bloch enfin accessible au grand public. Les deux carnets de Marc Bloch réunis dans cet ouvrage – « Quelques notes de lecture » et … Continue reading →

Aida A Hozić and Jacqui True eds. War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital – Routledge, December 2025 War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital examines the war economy from feminist perspectives, bringing fresh thinking in the context of heightened geopolitical tensions. … Continue reading →