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What the Foucault? BBC Radio 4 discussion with Shahidha Bari Last December Liz Truss made a speech. The Minister for Women and Equalities spoke about her memories of being at school in Leeds. She was taught about sexism and racism, … Continue reading →

Handbook on Space, Place and Law, edited by Robyn Bartel and Jennifer Carter – Edward Elgar, 2021 This innovative Handbook provides an expansive interrogation of the spaces and places of law, exploring how we engage relationally in a material world, … Continue reading →

Benjamin Bratton, The Revenge of the Real: Post-Pandemic Politics – Verso, June 2021 COVID-19 exposed the pre-existing conditions of the current global crisis. Many Western states failed to protect their populations, while others were able to suppress the virus only with sweeping … Continue reading →

Toposophia: thinking place/making space – relaunch of book series with Lexington books, edited by Jessica Dubow (Sheffield) and Jeff Malpas (Tasmania). Originally established by Robert Mugerauer and Brian Treanor, Toposophia is being continued in a new form under the editorial direction of … Continue reading →

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Foucault – Duby – Dumézil – Changeux – Thom : Cinq grands entretiens au Champ Freudien, Navarin – Février 2021 Introduction par Christiane Alberti, Deborah Gutermann-Jacquet, France Jaigu Lacan a toujours insisté pour que les…

Rachael Squire, Undersea Geopolitics: Sealab, Science, and the Cold War – Rowman, July 2021 This book furthers academic scholarship in cutting-edge areas of geographical and geopolitical writing by drawing on a series of little-studied undersea living projects conducted by the … Continue reading →

Gregg Lambert, Towards a Geopolitical Image of Thought – Edinburgh University Press, February 2021 Radically reorientates the future direction of Continental philosophy according to a geo-political image of thought  Presents the notion of ‘geophilosophy’ as an alternative to contemporary theories … Continue reading →

Abram Foley, The Editor Function: Literary Publishing in Postwar America – University of Minnesota Press, August 2021 Michel Foucault famously theorized “the author function” in his 1969 essay “What Is an Author?” proposing that the existence of the author limits … Continue reading →

Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D. S. Schroeder (eds.), Ahab Unbound: Melville and the Materialist Turn – University of Minnesota Press, December 2021 Herman Melville’s Captain Ahab is perennially seen as the paradigm of a controlling, tyrannical agent. Ahab Unbound leaves his position … Continue reading →