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Alberto Toscano, Communism in Philosophy: Essays on Alain Badiou and Toni Negri – Brill, May 2025; paperback Haymarket June 2026

Posted on June 11, 2026 by stuartelden

Alberto Toscano, Communism in Philosophy: Essays on Alain Badiou and Toni Negri – Brill, May 2025; paperback Haymarket June 2026 A new collection of essays on two of the most important communist philosophers of our time: Alain Badiou and Toni … Continue reading →

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Miriam Posner, Seeing Like a Supply Chain: The Hidden Life of Logistics – Yale University Press, October 2026

Posted on June 11, 2026 by stuartelden

Miriam Posner, Seeing Like a Supply Chain: The Hidden Life of Logistics – Yale University Press, October 2026 A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology … Continue reading →

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Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani (eds.), The Biopolitical Animal – Edinburgh University Press, November 2024, paperback May 2026

Posted on June 10, 2026 by stuartelden

Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani (eds.), The Biopolitical Animal – Edinburgh University Press, November 2024; paperback May 2026 Explores the intersection of biopolitics and the animal question, pushing the debate in new directions Remedies the inherent species blindness of biopolitical theories that … Continue reading →

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João Pina-Cabral, Metapersons: Transcendence and Life – Hau, 2026 (print and open access)

Posted on June 9, 2026 by stuartelden

João Pina-Cabral, Metapersons: Transcendence and Life – Hau, 2026 Print distributed by University of Chicago Press; available open access Metapersons begins from a simple yet striking observation: across the world, people live in the company of divinities, ancestors, spirits, sacred mountains, … Continue reading →

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Jennifer Stob, The Situationist International and the Social Space of Film: With and Against Cinema – Routledge, June 2026

Posted on June 8, 2026 by stuartelden

Jennifer Stob, The Situationist International and the Social Space of Film: With and Against Cinema – Routledge, June 2026 This book explores the Situationist International’s paradoxical relationship with cinema from 1957 to 1972. The SI was a postwar avant-garde that … Continue reading →

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Julia Kristeva’s Dostoyevsky – from Mikhail Bakhtin and Hans Holbein to psychoanalysis, religion and language 

Posted on June 7, 2026 by stuartelden

Julia Kristeva often references Fyodor Dostoyevsky in her work. She read him while growing up in Bulgaria, and continued after her move to France. She recalls her initial reading was against her father’s directive. As well as Dostoyevsky’s famous novels, … Continue reading →

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Jean Wahl, The Idea of the Instant in Descartes’s Philosophy – ed. and trans. Alan D. Schrift, Edinburgh University Press, May 2026

Posted on June 6, 2026 by stuartelden

Jean Wahl, The Idea of the Instant in Descartes’s Philosophy – ed. and trans. Alan D. Schrift, Edinburgh University Press, May 2026

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Benjamin Kohlmann, Revolutionary Subjects: A Radical History of the Bildungsroman – Verso, August 2026

Posted on June 5, 2026 by stuartelden

Benjamin Kohlmann, Revolutionary Subjects: A Radical History of the Bildungsroman – Verso, August 2026 A literary history spanning borders and centuries to explore radicalization as portrayed in fiction Tracing the evolution of socialist world literature from the nineteenth century to … Continue reading →

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Jon Douglas Solomon, Foucault and Genocide: A Genealogy of a Fantasy of the West – Palgrave Pivot, 2026

Posted on June 4, 2026 by stuartelden

Jon Douglas Solomon, Foucault and Genocide: A Genealogy of a Fantasy of the West – Palgrave Pivot, 2026 Michel Foucault’s seminal realization that security is a species concept opens a new path for understanding how genocide is fundamentally related to … Continue reading →

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Allen Buchanan, Political Tribalism: How It Hijacks Our Minds and Diminishes Our Humanity – Routledge, May 2025 and NDPR review

Posted on June 4, 2026 by stuartelden

Allen Buchanan, Political Tribalism: How It Hijacks Our Minds and Diminishes Our Humanity – Routledge, May 2025 NDPR review by Alexander Motchoulski Combining hard data with the author’s personal story of a life in the U.S. South and then as a … Continue reading →

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