Monthly Archives: February 2026

Onur Erdur, School of the South: The Colonial Roots of French Theory – trans. Andrew Brown, Polity, July 2026 Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Jean-François Lyotard, Étienne Balibar, Jacques Rancière: these were among the luminaries of … Continue reading →

Elizabeth Campbell, Museum Worthy: Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe – Oxford University Press, August 2024 I’m late in noticing this, but I’ve just read her previous book, Defending National Treasures: French Art and Heritage Under Vichy (Stanford University … Continue reading →

Fay Bound-Alberti, The Face: A Cultural History – Allen Lane, February 2026 What’s in a face? The face is the only part of the body where all the senses come together and, over the course of human history, has come … Continue reading →

Peter C. Grace, The Intelligence Intellectuals: Social Scientists and the Making of the CIA – Georgetown University Press, January 2026 The untold story of how America’s brightest academic minds revolutionized intelligence analysis at the CIA In the early days of … Continue reading →

Martin Heidegger, Being and Time: An Annotated Translation – trans. Cyril Welch, Yale University Press, February 2026 New Books discussion with Stephen Dozeman – thanks to dmf for the link A new, more accessible translation of one of the most important … Continue reading →

Luisa T Schneider, Robbert Dillema, and Paola Rebughini eds. Agency Beyond Confinement Rethinking the Relationship Between Agency and Structure in the Contemporary World – Routledge, March 2026 What does it mean to be confined and what forms of life, resistance, … Continue reading →

Christopher Cusack, Bridget English and Matthew L. Reznicek eds. The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature – Liverpool University Press, February 2026 From the bodies rotting by the wayside in Famine fiction, Synge’s sodden corpses and Joyce’s dead, to Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s talking corpses and the unburied … Continue reading →

Pierre-Olivier Dittmar, L’invention de l’animal: Essai d’anthropologie médiévale – Gallimard, March 2026 Il n’y avait pas d’animal au Moyen Âge. Des cochons et des oiseaux, des bœufs et des belettes, des lapins et des ours, des loups et des abeilles, … Continue reading →

Eray Çayli, Earthmoving: Extractivism, War, and Visuality in Northern Kurdistan – University of Texas Press, October 2025 New Books discussion with Ronay Bakan – thank to dmf for the link Focuses on contemporary art and media to examine the role … Continue reading →