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Edward Said Memorial Lecture – Étienne Balibar, “Geometries of Imperialism in the 21st Century”, November 2024 (video)

Edward Said Memorial Lecture – Étienne Balibar, “Geometries of Imperialism in the 21st Century”, November 2024 (video) The Department of English and Comparative Literature hosted in November 2024 the Edward Said Memorial Lecture, titled ‘ Geometries of Imperialism in the … Continue reading

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Kristof Smeyers, Supernatural Bodies: Stigmata in Modern Britain and Ireland – Manchester University Press, September 2024

Kristof Smeyers, Supernatural Bodies: Stigmata in Modern Britain and Ireland – Manchester University Press, September 2024 This book is the first in-depth study of the changing perceptions and receptions of supernatural bodies in modern Britain and Ireland. It focuses on … Continue reading

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The RTE interview of Gillian Rose (audio)

The RTE interview of Gillian Rose (audio) Thanks to Robert Lucas Scott for the link. Update 21 November: I should have given the link to the transcription published in Theory, Culture and Society in 2008, edited by Vincent Lloyd. It’s … Continue reading

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Jacob Chamberlain, Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal: Rights, Law, and Resistance against Territory’s Exclusions – University of Georgia Press, March 2025

Jacob Chamberlain, Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal: Rights, Law, and Resistance against Territory’s Exclusions – University of Georgia Press, March 2025 Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal details the story of Migrant Justice, a migrant rights organization led … Continue reading

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Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Foucault, Derrida, Arendt and Scholem

Books sent in recompense for review work for University of Chicago Press – three of the four volumes of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Mythologies (the other one is out of print), Michel Foucault, What is Critique? and The Culture of the Self, … Continue reading

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Christopher Falzon, Foucault and the History of Philosophical Transcendence: Freedom, Nature and Agency – Bloomsbury, August 2024

Christopher Falzon, Foucault and the History of Philosophical Transcendence: Freedom, Nature and Agency – Bloomsbury, August 2024 In an original approach to Foucault’s philosophy, Christopher Falzon argues for a reading of Foucault as a philosopher of finite transcendence, and explores … Continue reading

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Derrida at NYU, 21 November 2024 – online and in-person

Derrida at NYU, 21 November 2024 – online and in-person

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Marta Dyczok, Ukraine not ‘the’ Ukraine – Cambridge University Press, November 2024

Marta Dyczok, Ukraine not ‘the’ Ukraine – Cambridge University Press, November 2024 pdf free online until 13 December 2024 This Element is a historical tour of Ukraine from the medieval Kyivan prince Volodymyr the Great through to Ukraine’s twenty-first-century rock … Continue reading

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Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani (eds.), The Biopolitical Animal – Edinburgh University Press, November 2024

Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani (eds.), The Biopolitical Animal – Edinburgh University Press, November 2024 No description on the EUP website, so here’s the table of contents – shame about the price. Introduction: What is a Biopolitical Animal? – Felice Cimatti and Carlo … Continue reading

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Audrey Borowski, Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant – Princeton University Press, November 2024

Audrey Borowski, Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant – Princeton University Press, November 2024 Described by Voltaire as “perhaps a man of the most universal learning in Europe,” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) is often portrayed as a rationalist … Continue reading

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