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Colin McFarlane, Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife – Verso, August 2023 [update September 2023 – Colin reflects on the book’s writing here; and provides an open access link] In an age of … Continue reading →

D.J.S. Cross, Deleuze and the Problem of Affect – Edinburgh University Press, May 2023 (paperback)

Annie Pfeifer, To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation – Cornell University Press, 2023 To the Collector Belong the Spoils rethinks collecting as an artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice, which flourishes beyond institutions like museums … Continue reading →

Sheryl Lightfoot and Elsa Stamatopoulou eds., Indigenous Peoples and Borders – Duke University Press, February 2024 The legacies of borders are far-reaching for Indigenous Peoples. This collection offers new ways of understanding borders by departing from statist approaches to territoriality. Bringing … Continue reading →

I have the French translation of the first edition of Marco Filoni’s biography of Alexandre Kojève, which stops rather abruptly in the early 1940s. It’s good to know that there is a new edition which completes the story – Marco … Continue reading →

Alexandra Homolar, The Uncertainty Doctrine: Narrative Politics and the US Hard Power after the Cold War – Cambridge University Press, October 2023 The post-Cold War era is often seen as a missed opportunity of epic proportions for the United States … Continue reading →

“Deleuze/Guattari and A Thousand Plateaus“: Michael Hardt in conversation with Brad Evans “A Century of Violence” – co-hosted with the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Bath: https://www.bath.ac.uk/research-centr… To coincide with the 100th year anniversary of … Continue reading →

Recasting the Political: Perspectives from Deep History – Cambridge, 3-4 July 2023 This conference brings together historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists, political theorists, and global studies and international relations scholars to showcase and discuss the merits and challenges of adopting a … Continue reading →

Karine Varley, Vichy’s Double Bind: French Collaboration between Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War – Cambridge University Press, May 2023 Vichy’s Double Bind advances a significant new interpretation of French collaboration during the Second World War. Arguing that … Continue reading →