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I’ve updated the ‘forthcoming‘ page on this site – removing a few pieces that have now been published, and adding details of a couple of new ones in production or available online first. This page doesn’t include things under review … Continue reading →

Charlotte Wrigley, Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood: Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic – University of Minnesota Press, April 2023 Climate scientists point to permafrost as a “ticking time bomb” for the planet and, from the Arctic, apocalyptic narratives proliferate … Continue reading →

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation – Verso, March 2023 (paperback) First collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geography and incarceration. Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s work from over three decades, Abolition … Continue reading →

Nicolaas Buitendag, States of exclusion: A critical systems theory reading of international law – Aosis, 2023 (print and open access e-book) The theoretical underpinnings of public international law have taken the sovereign status of the nation-state for granted since the … Continue reading →

Interesting to see a new series of Maurice Merleau-Ponty texts in progress, Inédits. I’ve seen two volumes so far, and I can’t find information on further volumes planned. At 42 euros each volume this might become expensive: Volume I Cet … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michel Foucault, What is Critique? & The Culture of the Self Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini. Introduction and critical apparatus by Daniele Lorenzini & Arnold I. Davidson Translated by Clare O’Farrell, The University…

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Georges Bataille, The Limit of the Useful, translated by Cory Knutson and Thomas Elliott – MIT Press, February 2023 Update: now published; there is an interview with the translators at the Acid Horizon podcast. Forthcoming…

Originally posted on AGENT SWARM:
Publication of an unpublished book manuscript by Michel Foucault: PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE. Text established by Daniele Lorenzini and Orazio Irrera, under the direction of François Ewald – to be published by Gallimard/Seuil/EHESS, in May 2023 The…

David Myer Temin, Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought – University of Chicago Press, August 2023 An examination of anticolonial thought and practice across key Indigenous thinkers. Accounts of decolonization routinely neglect Indigenous societies, yet … Continue reading →