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David W. Bates, An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence: Thinking with Machines from Descartes to the Digital Age – University of Chicago Press, April 2024 A revolutionary history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines. … Continue reading →

Stefanos Geroulanos, The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and our Obsession with Human Origins – Liveright, April 2024 There is more info about the book and related essays on the author’s website. Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller … Continue reading →

Kathryn Lawson and Joshua Livingstone (eds), Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil: Unprecedented Conversations – Bloomsbury, February 2024 Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil were two of the most compelling political thinkers of the 20th century who, despite having similar life-experiences, developed … Continue reading →

Raymond Aron, Liberty and Equality, trans. Samuel Garrett Zeitlin – Princeton University Press, November 2023 Liberty and Equality is the first English translation of the last lecture delivered at the Collège de France by Raymond Aron, one of the most influential political … Continue reading →

Sarah Hall interviews Louise Amoore on the ethical challenges of AI – The UK in a Changing Europe Podcast In the week of the UK’s AI Safety Summit, Professor Sarah Hall talks to Professor Louise Amoore about responding to the … Continue reading →

Iván Chaar López, The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion – Duke University Press, March 2024 In The Cybernetic Border, Iván Chaar López argues that the settler US nation requires the production and targeting of a racialized enemy that threatens the … Continue reading →

Antipode have put together a Virtual Issue on Palestine/Israel, updating a list from 2021 – with papers open access until end of 2023

Juval Portugali (ed.), The Crisis of Democracy and in the Age of Cities – Edward Elgar, 2023 Providing a succinct overview of historical, present and future perspectives of cities and urbanism, this discerning book examines how the 21st century, regarded … Continue reading →

Ash Amin, After Nativism: Belonging in an Age of Intolerance – Polity, October 2023 Increasingly, many people in democracies are turning to a strongarm politics for reassurance against globalization, uncertainty and precarity. In countries ranging from the US and the UK to … Continue reading →

Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault – University of Chicago Press, September 2023 I’ve shared news of this book before, but there now a New Books discussion with Richard Grijalva available. A groundbreaking … Continue reading →