Monthly Archives: April 2026

Sakora Christmas, Territorial Natures: Imperial Japan and the Mongolian Question – University of Chicago Press, October 2026

Sakora Christmas, Territorial Natures: Imperial Japan and the Mongolian Question – University of Chicago Press, October 2026 A critical account of the Japanese occupation in Inner Mongolia. Early in the twentieth century, the steppe borderlands between China and Mongolia erupted in violence. … Continue reading

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The Story of Capital: Book Launch with David Harvey in Conversation with Adam Tooze

The Story of Capital: Book Launch with David Harvey in Conversation with Adam Tooze – discussing The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works (Verso, 2026), via Reading Capital with David Harvey

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Mark Pennington, Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom – Oxford University Press, August 2025 and New Books interview

Mark Pennington, Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom – Oxford University Press, August 2025 New Books interview with Morteza Hajizadeh – thanks to dmf for the link This highly original and innovative book is the first to … Continue reading

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Henri Lefebvre wasn’t a fan of previous missions to the moon

Henri Lefebvre wasn’t a fan of previous missions to the moon, describing it as “the sacrifice of a considerable part of the earth’s resources in order to gain possession of one of the ghastliest of all the piles of pebbles … Continue reading

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Foucault’s lectures in Buffalo – audio recordings of the 1972 course and part of the 1970 course online

Foucault’s lectures in Buffalo – audio recordings of the 1972 course and part of the 1970 one are now available online. The 1972 course has recently been transcribed as Histoire de la vérité, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Orazio Irrera. … Continue reading

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Books received – Barthes, Berthier, Pleynet, Traini, Nizan, Cresswell, Amigo Pina, Meng, Deleuze, Jacob, Cusset

I’ve been away for a while, so there were a few books waiting for me on my return. Several of these relate to a planned ‘Sunday History‘ on the Tel Quel visit to China – Jean Berthier’s recent book Voyage … Continue reading

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Paul Harrison, Anna J. Secor and Mikko Joronen eds. Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe – Edinburgh University Press, August 2026 (print and open access)

Paul Harrison, Anna J. Secor and Mikko Joronen eds. Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe – Edinburgh University Press, August 2026 (print and open access)

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