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Some of the many tributes to Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026)

There are too many to try to be comprehensive, but here are a few of the tributes and reposts of older material celebrating the life and career of the remarkable historian Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026). Update 2 August 2026: my own … Continue reading →

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Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It’s Too Late – Verso, June 2026

Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It’s Too Late – Verso, June 2026 It’s not enough to ask what the technology does – we must understand who it’s doing it for and … Continue reading →

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Max Haiven, The Player and the Played: From Gamed Capitalism to 21st-Century Fascism – MIT Press, September 2026 (print and open access)

Max Haiven, The Player and the Played: From Gamed Capitalism to 21st-Century Fascism – MIT Press, September 2026 A provocative examination of the ways our economy has been rigged by financialization, and the importance of games to our dangerous political … Continue reading →

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Scott B. Ritner, Revolutionary Pessimism: Simone Weil’s Antifascist Politics – Stanford University Press, November 2026

Scott B. Ritner, Revolutionary Pessimism: Simone Weil’s Antifascist Politics – Stanford University Press, November 2026 Scott B. Ritner argues that the antifascist philosopher and mystic Simone Weil’s critical writings about the social crises of the mid-twentieth century, especially fascism, are … Continue reading →

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Chad Wellmon, After the University: Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work – Johns Hopkins University Press, June 2026

Chad Wellmon, After the University: Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work – Johns Hopkins University Press, June 2026 When the pursuit of knowledge is eclipsed by money and power, what remains of higher learning? What is a university … Continue reading →

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Didier Fassin, Ainsi pensait Michel Foucault: Enquête sur une philosophie pour notre temps – La Découverte, September 2026

Didier Fassin, Ainsi pensait Michel Foucault: Enquête sur une philosophie pour notre temps – La Découverte, September 2026 Après Leçons de ténèbres, le nouveau cours de Didier Fassin au Collège de France. À l’occasion du centenaire de la naissance de Michel … Continue reading →

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Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Kristin Anabel Eggeling, The Brussels Bubble: Inside the European Union in the Digital Age – Cambridge University Press, June 2026 (print and open access)

Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Kristin Anabel Eggeling, The Brussels Bubble: Inside the European Union in the Digital Age – Cambridge University Press, June 2026

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Salvador Santino Regilme ed., Statelessness and Citizenship Revocation in Europe: Rethinking Politics, Law, Security, and Human Rights – De Gruyter Brlll, July 2026

Salvador Santino Regilme ed., Statelessness and Citizenship Revocation in Europe: Rethinking Politics, Law, Security, and Human Rights – De Gruyter Brlll, July 2026

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Andrew McKenzie-McHarg, The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory – Princeton University Press, June/August 2026

Andrew McKenzie-McHarg, The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory – Princeton University Press, June/August 2026 Will be interesting to read this alongside Nicolas Guilhot, Conspiracy: The History of a Political Obsession – Harvard University Press, October 2026. Truthers, birthers, flat-Earthers, the deep state, … Continue reading →

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Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa – new edition, foreword by Angela Davis, Verso, September 2026

Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa – new edition, foreword by Angela Davis, Verso, September 2026 An exemplary work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious masterwork of political economy, … Continue reading →

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