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Susan Slyomovics and Lorenzo Veracini (eds.), Race, Place, Trace: Essays in Honour of Patrick Wolfe – Verso, February 2022 This edited collection celebrates Patrick Wolfe’s contribution to the study and critique of settler colonialism as a distinct mode of domination. … Continue reading →

Jeanne Morefield, Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory – Rowman & Littlefield, May 2022 Unsettling the World is the first book-length treatment of Edward Said’s influential cultural criticism from the perspective of a political theorist. Arguing that the generative … Continue reading →

Veronica Della Dora, Where Light in Darkness Lies: The Story of the Lighthouse – Reaktion, March 2022 Suspended between sea and sky, battered by the waves and the wind, lighthouses mark the battlelines between the elements. They guard the boundaries … Continue reading →

Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, Hatred of Sex – University of Nebraska Press, April 2022 Hatred of Sex links Jacques Rancière’s political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche’s identification of a fundamental perturbation at the heart of … Continue reading →

Mark Neocleous, The Politics of Immunity: Security and the Policing of Bodies – Verso, March 2022 Our contemporary political condition is obsessed with immunity. The immunity of bodies and the body politic; personal immunity and herd immunity; how to immunize … Continue reading →

David Bissell, Mitch Rose and Paul Harrison (eds.), Negative Geographies: Exploring the Politics of Limits – University of Nebraska Press, November 2021 Negative Geographies is the first edited collection to chart the political, conceptual, and ethical consequences of how the underexplored … Continue reading →

Angharad Closs Stephens, National Affects: The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political – Bloomsbury, September 2022 Identity is widely acknowledged to be a felt experience, yet questions of atmosphere, mood and public sentiments are rarely made central to understanding the global … Continue reading →

Thomas Nail, Lucretius III: A History of Motion – Edinburgh University Press, February 2022 A guidebook to living in a world that’s destined to die, through a new reading of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura Presents a new theory of history … Continue reading →

Babette Babich, Günther Anders’ Philosophy of Technology: From Phenomenology to Critical Theory – Bloomsbury, October 2021 Gunter Anders’ Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive exploration of the ground-breaking work of German thinker Gunter Anders. Anders’ philosophy has become increasingly prescient in … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS International Workshop Nietzsche, Genealogy, Foucault: History between between Life and Power School of Arts and Humanities – University of Lisbon 14th June 2022 Event organized as part of the Praxis-CFUL  Keynote Speakers: Keynote…