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Carlo Ginzburg, Secularism and its Ambiguities: Four Case Studies – Central European University Press, July 2023 (Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures) In the best micro-historical tradition, Carlo Ginzburg, himself one of the founders and icons of this genre of historiography, … Continue reading →

Evgenia Iliadou, Border Harms and Everyday Violence: A Prison Island in Europe – Bristol University Press, September 2023 The Greek island of Lesvos is frequently the subject of news reports on the refugee ‘crisis’, but they only occasionally focus on … Continue reading →

Christopher Smith (ed.), Sovereignty: A Global Perspective – British Academy/Oxford University Press, November 2022 Sovereignty has been at the heart of political philosophy for centuries, and yet it is far from clear what work sovereignty is actually doing in the … Continue reading →

Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi, Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory – Verso, July 2023 Capitalism, by the twenty-first century, has brought us an era of escalating, overlapping crisis – ecological, political, social – which we may not survive. In … Continue reading →

It will still be some time before I return to work, as there are medical issues still to be resolved. I’m not returning to the research for my new Indo-European thought project yet, but I will be sharing a few … Continue reading →

A brief health update. Some of you know I’ve been unwell the past couple of weeks. Very unexpectedly, I had to have open heart surgery on Monday 10 July. Two valves were repaired successfully. I am now recovering well, but … Continue reading →

The last post on Lefebvre’s banned books was one I wrote a few days ago but hadn’t quite finished. I’m posting it now and expect it will be the last substantive post for some time on Progressive Geographies.  I am … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Eugene B. Young, Cinematic Art and Reversals of Power. Deleuze via Blanchot, Bloomsbury, 2022 Description Bringing together Deleuze, Blanchot, and Foucault, this book provides a detailed and original exploration of the ideas that influenced Deleuze’s…

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 →