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Andrew Curley, Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo – University of Arizona Press, April 2023 For almost fifty years, coal dominated the Navajo economy. But in 2019 one of the Navajo Nation’s largest coal plants closed. … Continue reading →

Alain Corbin, A History of the Wind, trans. William Peniston – Polity, November 2022 Everyone knows the wind’s touch, its presence, its force. Sometimes it roars and howls, at other times we hear its wistful sighs and feel its soothing … Continue reading →

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Sida, prisons, décolonisation : la vie militante de Daniel Defert, France Culture (radio), fév 2023. © Claude Truong-Ngoc / Wikimedia Commons – cc-by-sa-3.0, Aucun(e) À propos de la série Une série d’entretiens proposée par Virginie…

A photo I took of Daniel Defert in 2015 when I visited him in Foucault’s former apartment on the rue de Vaugirard. He’s signing a copy of Un Vie Politique for me.

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Daniel Defert, philosophe, sociologue et figure de la lutte contre le sida, est mort Daniel Defert (2015)by Claude Truong-Ngoc L’universitaire a été à l’origine de la création de l’association Aides en 1984, après la disparition…

Some recently bought new and second-hand books, including the paperback of Jing Tsu, Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China.

Christopher I. Beckwith, The Scythian Empire: Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China, Princeton University Press, Jan/Mar 2023 In the late 8th and early 7th centuries BCE, Scythian warriors conquered and unified most of the … Continue reading →

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Michelle Perrot, Punir et comprendre. Entretiens avec Frédéric Chauvaud, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2023. Les éditions PUR proposent d’en découvrir les premières pages Ce livre d’entretiens revient sur un itinéraire et des chantiers ouverts dès…

Rob Kitchin, Digital Timescapes: Technology, Temporality and Society – Polity, February 2023 Digital technologies are having a profound effect on the temporalities of individuals, households and organisations. We now expect to be able to instantly source a vast array of … Continue reading →

Celia Lury, William Viney, Scott Wark (eds.), Figure: Concept and Method – Palgrave Macmillan, 2022 (open access) This open access book shows how figures, figuring, and configuration are used to understand complex, contemporary problems. Figures are images, numbers, diagrams, data … Continue reading →