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Bruce Lincoln, Secrets, Lies, and Consequences: A Great Scholar’s Hidden Past and his Protégé’s Unsolved Murder – Oxford University Press, March 2024

Bruce Lincoln, Secrets, Lies, and Consequences: A Great Scholar’s Hidden Past and his Protégé’s Unsolved Murder – Oxford University Press, March 2024 The tale of a legendary scholar, an unsolved murder, and the mysterious documents that may connect themIn early … Continue reading

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Jure Vidmar, Territorial Status in International Law – Bloomsbury, January 2024

Jure Vidmar, Territorial Status in International Law – Bloomsbury, January 2024 This book develops a new theory of territorialism and international legal status of territories. It (i) defines the concept of territory, explaining how territories are created; (ii) redefines the … Continue reading

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Gillian Rose, Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory – Verso, August 2024 

Gillian Rose, Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory – Verso, August 2024  Marxist Modernism presents for the first time Gillian Rose’s 1979 lectures on the Frankfurt School, art, and politics. Delivered soon after the publication of her now … Continue reading

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Michel Foucault, What Is Critique? & The Culture of the Self, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini, and Arnold I. Davidson, translated by Clare O’Farrell, University of Chicago Press, January 2024

Michel Foucault, What Is Critique? & The Culture of the Self, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini, and Arnold I. Davidson, translated by Clare O’Farrell, University of Chicago Press, January 2024. Newly published lectures by Foucault on critique, Enlightenment, and the care … Continue reading

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Dave Beer, Reading Critical Data Studies – virtual book, 2023

At his relatively new Half Thoughts blog, Dave Beer has assembled a number of pieces into a virtual book, some of which are open access. Over several years I’ve been working on a little background project that I’ve called ‘Reading … Continue reading

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Andreas Malm on Palestine, Climate Activism and over-shooting 1.5 °C – interview on video

Andreas Malm on Palestine, Climate Activism and over-shooting 1.5 °C – interview on video with Sebastian Budgen Andreas Malm is a Swedish climate activist, associate professor of human ecology at Lund University, and author of the best-selling How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning … Continue reading

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Jean-Numa Ducange  and Anthony Burlaud (eds.), Marx, A French Passion: The Reception of Marx and Marxisms in France’s Political-Intellectual Life – trans. David Broder, Brill, 2023

Jean-Numa Ducange  and Anthony Burlaud (eds.), Marx, A French Passion: The Reception of Marx and Marxisms in France’s Political-Intellectual Life – trans. David Broder, Brill, 2023 Paperback after 12 months with Haymarket Despite the collapse of Soviet-style socialism, the spectre of … Continue reading

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Charlotte Thevenet, Derrida et ses doubles – Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, November 2023

Charlotte Thevenet, Derrida et ses doubles – Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, November 2023 Qu’on la pourfende, la déplore ou la célèbre, l’obscurité du style de Derrida semble mettre d’accord disciples et adversaires du philosophe. Plutôt que de prendre parti, ce … Continue reading

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Call for Papers: Global Histories of International Thought and Geopolitical Concepts, University of Groningen, 23-24 May 2024

Call for Papers 2023: Global Histories of International Thought and Geopolitical Concepts RUG-NUPI Research Workshop in the History and Theory of International Relations Keynote speaker: Prof. Lucian Ashworth  Location: University of Groningen, 9712 CP Netherlands Date: Thursday 23th – Friday … Continue reading

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Mathias Albert, Dina Brode-Roger, Lisbeth Iversen (eds.), Svalbard Imaginaries: The Making of an Arctic Archipelago – Palgrave Macmillan, November 2023

Mathias Albert, Dina Brode-Roger, Lisbeth Iversen, Svalbard Imaginaries: The Making of an Arctic Archipelago – Palgrave Macmillan, November 2023 Hardback and e-book at present; paperback due in December 2024 By drawing on a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds, this book … Continue reading

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