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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 →

The last post on Lefebvre’s banned books was one I wrote a few days ago but hadn’t quite finished. I’m posting it now and expect it will be the last substantive post for some time on Progressive Geographies.  I am … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Eugene B. Young, Cinematic Art and Reversals of Power. Deleuze via Blanchot, Bloomsbury, 2022 Description Bringing together Deleuze, Blanchot, and Foucault, this book provides a detailed and original exploration of the ideas that influenced Deleuze’s…

Kristin Ross’s “The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life” – Los Angeles Review of Books podcast Eric Newman and Kate Wolf speak to the author Kristin Ross about her recent book, The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life, a collection of … Continue reading →

Uwe Wittstock, February 1933: The Winter of Literature – trans. Daniel Bowles, Polity, April 2023 It all happened in a flash. February 1933 was the month in which the fate of German writers, as for so many others, was decided. … Continue reading →

Anna M. Grzymała-Busse, Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State – Princeton University Press, January 2023 Sacred Foundations argues that the medieval church was a fundamental force in European state formation. Existing accounts focus on early modern … Continue reading →

Tony C. Brown, Statelessness: On Almost Not Existing – University of Minnesota Press, November 2022 Just as the modern state and the citizenship associated with it are commonly thought of as a European invention, so too is citizenship’s negation in … Continue reading →