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Henk van Houtum, Free the Map: From Atlas to Hermes: A New Cartography of Borders and Migration – nai010, January 2024 (print and e-book)

Henk van Houtum, Free the Map: From Atlas to Hermes: A New Cartography of Borders and Migration – nai010, January 2024 (e-book and print) ‘Map attack! In Free the Map, a new publication by Henk van Houtum, traditional maps are challenged … Continue reading

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Éric Weil, Philosopher avec Critique: Articles et notes publiés dans la revue Critique, éd. Patrice Canivez, Gilbert Kirscher et Sylvie Patron – Vrin, September 2024

Éric Weil, Philosopher avec Critique: Articles et notes publiés dans la revue Critique, éd. Patrice Canivez, Gilbert Kirscher et Sylvie Patron – Vrin, September 2024 Cette édition présentée et annotée des textes publiés par Éric Weil dans la revue Critique, revue … Continue reading

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Review of Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil

My review of Marcelo Hoffman’s remarkable book Foucault in Brazil is scheduled to appear in Political Theory next year, but is now available online first. Many thanks to Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson for asking me to write the review, and Marcelo for … Continue reading

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Adam Takács, Foucault’s Critical Philosophy of History: Unfolding the Present – Rowman and Littlefield, December 2023

Adam Takács, Foucault’s Critical Philosophy of History: Unfolding the Present – Rowman and Littlefield, December 2023 Foucault’s Critical Philosophy of History: Unfolding the Present provides a comprehensive interpretation of Foucault’s work by focusing on its methodological, procedural, and epistemological elements. Adam … Continue reading

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David Stirrup & Jeffrey Orr, The Canada-US Border: Culture and Theory – Edinburgh University Press, February 2024

David Stirrup & Jeffrey Orr, The Canada-US Border: Culture and Theory – Edinburgh University Press, February 2024

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‘On Concrete Human Problems’: Georges Canguilhem on Medicine and the Human Sciences – University of Bristol, 26 September 2024

‘On Concrete Human Problems’: Georges Canguilhem on Medicine and the Human Sciences – University of Bristol, 26 September 2024 Speakers: Annagiulia Canesso (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore/Università degli Studi Padova), Stuart Elden (University of Warwick), Giulia Gandolfi (Università Ca’Foscari Venezia/Karlsruhe), … Continue reading

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Canguilhem-Koyré-Gottmann

Most of my recent trip to Paris was for the Indo-European project, but I also did a little work on Alexandre Koyré, which is becoming something of a side project (see the posts Koyré in Cairo, Koyré and a Network … Continue reading

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Christopher Brown, A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places – Timber, September 2024

Christopher Brown, A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places – Timber, September 2024 A genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto for rewilding the city, the self, and society. … Continue reading

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Koyré in Cairo

Update May 2025: A revised and expanded version of this post is here, as part of the ‘Sunday Histories’ series. There are many things I find interesting in the life and work of Alexandre Koyré, and I’ve already published on … Continue reading

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Antipode book series moves to University of California Press

Antipode book series moves to University of California Press Rooted in the long and heterodox history of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, the Antipode Book Series publishes innovative monographs which push at the boundaries of radical geographical thinking, and which are rigorous … Continue reading

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