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Steve Mentz, Sailing without Ahab: Ecopoetic Travels – Fordham University Press, April 2024

Steve Mentz, Sailing without Ahab: Ecopoetic Travels – Fordham University Press, 2024; foreword by Suzanne Conklin Akbari. Navigate the Depths of a Timeless Classic, Reimagined. Come sail with I. We’re not taking the same trip, though you might recognize the … Continue reading →

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Alberto Toscano, Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis – Verso, October 2023

Alberto Toscano, Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis – Verso, October 2023 Looks great, though tempting to repeat the question of Ernest Mandel’s Late Capitalism – how do we know it’s late? In a world shaken by … Continue reading →

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Books received – Eilenberger, Durkheim, Lorenzini, Pietz, Culcasi, Guyau

Wolfram Eilenberger, Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger and the Great Decade of Philosophy; a somewhat battered copy of Émile Durkheim, Lettres à Marcel Mauss; and four books I’ve mentioned here before – Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of … Continue reading →

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Lauren Berlant, On the Inconvenience of Other People – Duke University Press, September 2022 (introduction open access)

Lauren Berlant, On the Inconvenience of Other People – Duke University Press, September 2022 I’m late in noticing this book, published last year. The Introduction is available open access here. In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore … Continue reading →

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Call for proposals: World Congress. Foucault: 40 years after (2023-2024)

Proposals for activities should be sent to: foucault40after@gmail.com to the Coordinator of the International Scientific Committee: Prof. Rodrigo Castro. Information about activities should include: a) The title of the activityb) A short description (5 lines)c) The city and country in which the activity … Continue reading →

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Charlotte Lydia Riley, Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain – Penguin, August 2023 and New Books discussion

Charlotte Lydia Riley, Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain – Penguin, August 2023 After the Second World War, Britain’s overseas empire disintegrated. As white settlers from Rhodesia returned home to a country they barely recognised, Commonwealth citizens … Continue reading →

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Marcello Musto, The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography – Stanford University Press, July 2020; and New Books discussion

Marcello Musto, The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography – Stanford University Press, July 2020 There is a New Books discussion between the author, David Norman Smith, Peter Audis and Sean Sayers, moderated by Morteza Hajizadeh here. An … Continue reading →

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Marie Allitt, Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War: Geographies of Care – Edinburgh University Press, May 2023 (print and open access)

Marie Allitt, Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War: Geographies of Care – Edinburgh University Press, May 2023 (print and open access)

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Teresa Degenhardt, War as Protection from Punishment: Armed International Intervention at the ‘End of History’ – Routledge, September 2023

Teresa Degenhardt, War as Protection from Punishment: Armed International Intervention at the ‘End of History’ – Routledge, September 2023 This book provides an analysis of how penal discourses are used to legitimate post-Cold War military interventions through three main case … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory is ten years old…

The book I consider to be my best work – The Birth of Territory – is ten years old this week. It was published by University of Chicago Press in September 2013. It is the most cited, most widely reviewed … Continue reading →

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