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Christopher Harker, Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine – Duke University Press, December 2020 In Spacing Debt Christopher Harker demonstrates that financial debt is as much a spatial phenomenon as it is a temporal and social one. … Continue reading →

History of the Human Sciences, Volume 33, Number 1, 2020 – Cybernetics and the Human Sciences, edited by Stefanos Geroulanos and Leif Weatherby (requires subscription) Cybernetics saturates the humanities. Norbert Wiener’s movement gave vocabulary and hardware to developments all across the early … Continue reading →

At Historical Materialism, we are very devastated by the loss to our movement of Neil Davidson, who was a source of unflinching support to the journal, book series and conferences. We will be publishing two books by him in the … Continue reading →

Talking Politics – History of Ideas talks by David Runciman History Of Ideas is a new series of talks by David Runciman in which he explores some of the most important thinkers and prominent ideas lying behind modern politics – … Continue reading →

Colin Koopman, How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person (University of Chicago Press, 2019) reviewed at NDPR by Ladelle McWhorter. Colin Koopman’s title encapsulates the central — and both disturbing and compelling — arguments of his … Continue reading →

What Is Continental Philosophy? An Interview with Edward Baring at the Journal of the History of Ideas blog Very interesting discussion, mainly about his book Converts to the Real: Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy (Harvard, 2019), but also … Continue reading →