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Robert T. Tally Jr., The Fiction of Dread: Dystopia, Monstrosity, and Apocalypse – Bloomsbury Academic, December 2023 A history and examination of dystopia and angst in popular culture that speaks to our current climate of dread.At the dawn of the … Continue reading →

Arang Keshavarzian, Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East – Stanford University Press, April 2024 The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space—an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The roots … Continue reading →

William Carruthers, Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia and the Recolonization of Archaeology – Cornell University Press, December 2022 I missed this when it came out, but looks interesting Flooded Pasts examines a world famous yet critically underexamined event—UNESCO’s International Campaign to Save … Continue reading →

British library – February 2024 update ‘Restoring our Services‘

Matthew Guariglia, Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York – Duke University Press, November 2023 The Introduction is available open access here During the years between the Civil War and World War … Continue reading →

Mark Sinclair & Daniel Whistler (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy – Oxford University Press, June 2024 Expensive hardback only, of course. Thanks to Tim Howles for the link. French philosophy is an internationally celebrated national philosophical tradition, … Continue reading →

Benjamin Bourcier & Mikko Jakonen (eds.), British Modern International Thought in the Making: Politics and Economy from Hobbes to Bentham – Palgrave Macmillan, February 2024 This book articulates international political theory in dialogue with economics on several questions. It asks: … Continue reading →

David Beer, The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking: Automation, Intelligence and the Politics of Knowing – Bristol University Press, November 2022, paperback February 2024 The paperback is now published. We are living in algorithmic times.  From machine learning and artificial intelligence … Continue reading →

Michel Foucault, Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, ed. Bernard Harcourt – Seuil/Gallimard/EHESS, May 2024 This is starting to appear in online bookshops (i.e. Decitre), but I can’t yet find a publisher page. It’s the next volume in the collection of Foucault’s … Continue reading →