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Luke Munn, Technical Territories: Data, Subjects, and Spaces in Infrastructural Asia – University of Michigan Press, July 2023 Territory is shifting. No longer defined by the dotted line of the border or the national footprint of soil, today’s territories are … Continue reading →

Thomas Wheatland, The Frankfurt School in Exile – University of Minnesota Press, April 2023 Members of the Frankfurt School have had an enormous effect on Western thought, beginning soon after Max Horkheimer became the director of the Institute for Social … Continue reading →

Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates, Noah’s Arkive – University of Minnesota Press, June 2023 Most people know the story of Noah from a children’s bible or a play set with a colorful ship, bearded Noah, pairs of animals, and … Continue reading →

Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Dalia Gebrial discuss prison abolition, racial capitalism, and critical geography on the Verso podcast:

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Ian Hacking, Anthropologie philosophique et raison scientifique, Textes réunis par Matteo Vagelli. Traduction de Aude Bandini, Vincent Guillin ,Marc Kirsch, Louis Quéré, Matteo Vagelli, Vrin, 2023. Présentation Des calculs de probabilité aux troubles de la…

Joanne Yao, The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order – Manchester University Press, March 2022 I’ve mentioned this book before. There is a book symposium being hosted by The Disorder of Things. Thanks to dmf for … Continue reading →

Mona Domosh, Disturbing Development in the Jim Crow South – University of Georgia Press, March 2023 A seminar on the book is being held online tomorrow – 16 May 2023 (details here; registration here). Apologies for the lack of notice. … Continue reading →

Mairéad Hanrahan, Genet’s Genres of Politics – Legenda, April 2023 Hardback only at the moment, but paperback forthcoming. In this book, Mairéad Hanrahan examines the shifts in political focus in Genet’s writing, from the intimate fantasies of the early novels … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
María Laura Martínez Rodríguez, Texture in the Work of Ian Hacking. Michel Foucault as the Guiding Thread of Hacking’s Thinking, Springer, 2021 About this book This book offers a systematized overview of Ian Hacking’s work.…