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Joanne Yao, The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order – Manchester University Press, March 2022 Just an expensive hardback at the moment, unfortunately. Environmental politics has traditionally been a peripheral concern for international relations theory, but … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
New translations of Alternatives à la prison (2022) The lecture given by Foucault on alternatives to prison in 1976 at the University of Montreal was published and commented on in Foucault in Montreal (2021) published…

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory – Duke University Press, January 2023 The Introduction is open access here [update: there is a review at The Duke Reader; and a discussion on the New Books network]

Stefanos Geroulanos, ‘The Civil Code, Napoleon’s Second Body: The Institution, Empire, and Aesthetic of a New Legal Regime (1804-1816)’ – Institute of Historical Research, London, 5.30-7.30pm, 14 December 2022 The event is free but booking required.

William Pietz, The Problem of the Fetish, edited by Francesco Pellizzi, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Ben Kafka – University of Chicago Press, November 2022 A groundbreaking account of the origins and history of the idea of fetishism. In recent decades, William Pietz’s … Continue reading →

David Beer, The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking: Automation, Intelligence and the Politics of Knowing – Bristol University Press, November 2022 Hardback and e-book only at the moment, but paperback sometime in the future. Subscribers to David’s substack The Fragment can … Continue reading →