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Adam Bobbette, The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java – Duke University Press, August 2023 The Introduction is available here In The Pulse of the Earth Adam Bobbette tells the story of how modern theories of the earth emerged from the slopes of Indonesia’s … Continue reading →

Krešimir Vuković, Wolves of Rome: The Lupercalia from Roman and Comparative Perspectives – December 2022 The study is a fresh interpretation of the Roman foundation myth and one of the most important Roman festivals – the Lupercalia, an annual celebration … Continue reading →

Irene Cheng, The Shape of Utopia: The Architecture of Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America – University of Minnesota Press, August 2023 In the middle of the nineteenth century, a utopian impulse flourished in the United States through the circulation of … Continue reading →

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 →