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Kristin Ross’s “The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life” – Los Angeles Review of Books podcast Eric Newman and Kate Wolf speak to the author Kristin Ross about her recent book, The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life, a collection of … Continue reading →

Uwe Wittstock, February 1933: The Winter of Literature – trans. Daniel Bowles, Polity, April 2023 It all happened in a flash. February 1933 was the month in which the fate of German writers, as for so many others, was decided. … Continue reading →

Anna M. Grzymała-Busse, Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State – Princeton University Press, January 2023 Sacred Foundations argues that the medieval church was a fundamental force in European state formation. Existing accounts focus on early modern … Continue reading →

Tony C. Brown, Statelessness: On Almost Not Existing – University of Minnesota Press, November 2022 Just as the modern state and the citizenship associated with it are commonly thought of as a European invention, so too is citizenship’s negation in … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Inédit de Michel Foucault : le discours philosophique, Radio France, podcast Samedi 13 mai 2023 Dans un texte inédit, le penseur français fait l’histoire du discours philosophique et l’aborde avec un regard critique. Avec Judith…

Gabriel Rockhill, “The Myth of 1968 Thought and the French Intelligentsia: Historical Commodity Fetishism and Ideological Rollback“, Monthly Review, June 2023 (open access) Like any major social and political movement, the events referred to as those of May 1968 have … Continue reading →

Morten Paul, Suhrkamp Theorie: Eine Buchreihe im philosophischen Nachkrieg – Spector, February 2023 Suhrkamp’s “Theory” series appeared over a period of 20 years, from 1966 to 1986. The publishing house included over 200 titles in the series, including basic texts … Continue reading →

Stéphane François, Nazi Occultism: Between the SS and Esotericism, trans Eriks Uskalis, Routledge, March 2023 Nazi Occultism provides a serious scholarly study of a topic that is often marred by sensationalism and misinformation. The Morning of the Magicians by Pauwels and Bergier … Continue reading →

Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human, Joseph Pugliese online book talk, 23 June 2023 registration free but required via Eventbrite The Emergent Nonfiction Lab at the University of Warwick welcomes Jospeh Pugliese for this talk and discussion on his book Biopolitics of … Continue reading →