Monthly Archives: March 2026

Working Knowledge: A Simon Schaffer Reader, eds. Charlotte Bigg, John Tresch, and Simon Werrett – University of Chicago Press, April 2026 Collects key articles by Simon Schaffer, one of the most important historians of science working today. Working Knowledge is the … Continue reading →

Dror Yinon, Deleuze and the Problem of Experience: Transcendental Empiricism – Bloomsbury, July 2025 NDPR review by George Webster This comprehensive reframing of Gilles Deleuze as a transcendental empiricist delves into his seminal Difference and Repetition to unearth a system that inverts the … Continue reading →

Teresa M. Bejan, First Among Equals: Visions of Equality before Egalitarianism — Harvard University Press, October 2026 An incisive account of how equality transformed from an abstract ideal into a concrete social and political vision, thanks to seventeenth-century English dissidents … Continue reading →

Joseph Tonda, Postcolonial Imperialism: Critique of the Society of Dazzlements – trans. Cheryl Smeall, Duke University Press, April 2026 Introduction available open access Postcolonial Imperialism considers the inability to distinguish between reality and fiction as a key condition of contemporary life. … Continue reading →

Joseph Acquisto, Baudelaire’s Objects – Bloomsbury, May 2026 Examines Baudelaire’s multifaceted use of natural, domestic, urban, and esthetic objects in his verse and prose poetry, as well as the ways his poems reshape our understanding of objects and how those … Continue reading →

Neil Gray, Take Over the City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy – Common Notions, August 2026 Take Over the City provides the first comprehensive spatial analysis of Italian operaismo and the extraordinary urban struggles of 1970s Italy. Take Over the … Continue reading →

William Carruthers, Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia and the Recolonization of Archaeology – Cornell University Press, December 2022; paperback March 2026 Flooded Pasts examines a world famous yet critically underexamined event—UNESCO’s International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (1960–80)—to show how … Continue reading →

Catherine Boland Erkkila, Spaces of Immigration: American Ports, Railways, and Settlements – University of Pittsburgh Press, April 2025 New Books discussion with Matt Wells – thanks to dmf for the link By transporting waves of newly arrived immigrants along rail lines … Continue reading →