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Patrick Brodie, Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland – Duke University Press, March 2026 In Wild Tides, Patrick Brodie maps the shifting fortunes of the Irish economy before the 2008 financial crisis up to 2020, outlining how the … Continue reading →

Ana Oancea, Dangerous Creations: The Inventor Novel in Fin-de-Siècle France – University of Toronto Press, July 2025 Dangerous Creations presents a master narrative of the inventor in fin-de-siècle French literature by analyzing the works of Jules Verne, Albert Robida, Émile Zola, and Villiers … Continue reading →

Robin James, Good Vibes Only: Phenomenology and the Biopolitics of Algorithmic Legitimation – Duke University Press, November 2026 In Good Vibes Only, Robin James argues that the vibes, the mathematical vectors driving modern technologies, have shifted. Considering the forms of governance … Continue reading →

Alex Tomas Fusco, The Production of Camp Space: An Analysis of a Refugee Camp in Mainland Greece – Springer, May 2026 This book uses a Lefebvrian spatial framework to explore the ‘production’ of Ritsona refugee camp in Central Greece. Lefebvre’s … Continue reading →

Franco Basaglia ed. The Negated Institution: Report from a Psychiatric Hospital – trans. John Foot, Brainstorm Books, October 2025 (print and open access) Thanks to dmf for the link The Negated Institution: Report from a Psychiatric Hospital was first published in 1968 … Continue reading →

Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and his World: A New Translation, trans. Sergeiy Sandler, Cambridge: MIT Press, October 2025 A new and improved translation of Mikhail Bakhtin’s classic and celebrated study of carnival. Mikhail Bakhtin’s classic study of carnival, laughter, the grotesque, and … Continue reading →

Laurie Parsons, Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse – LSE Press/RGS-IBG series, May 2026 (print and open access) Climate action is at an impasse. Its political opponents are stronger than ever, its advocates powerless. Almost every major government … Continue reading →

Steven Lukes, The Diversity of Morals, Princeton University Press, 2025 NDPR review by Jussi Suikkanen When we speak of morals, what are we speaking of? Is morality singular (as many philosophers tend to assume, even if they don’t agree on what it is) … Continue reading →

Gabriella Soto, Border Afterlives: Migrant Deaths, Forensic Investigations, and the Politics of Haunting – University of Ariona Press, March 2026 update July 2026 – New Books discussion with Jennifer Rose Najera Border Afterlives begins with the undocumented individuals who die crossing the … Continue reading →