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David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Grundrisse – Verso, February 2023

David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Grundrisse – Verso, February 2023 Update: editor Sebastian Budgen discusses the book here.

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Jeff Malpas, In the Brightness of Place: Topological Thinking In and After Heidegger – SUNY Press, September 2022

Jeff Malpas, In the Brightness of Place: Topological Thinking In and After Heidegger – SUNY Press, September 2022 The work of Jeff Malpas is well-known for its contribution to contemporary thinking about place and space. In the Brightness of Place takes that … Continue reading →

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Marci Baranski, The Globalisation of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution – University of Pittsburgh Press, November 2022

Marci Baranski, The Globalisation of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution – University of Pittsburgh Press, November 2022 In The Globalization of Wheat, Marci R. Baranski explores Norman Borlaug’s complicated legacy as godfather of the Green Revolution. Winner of … Continue reading →

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Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program – new translation, PM Press, October 2022

Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program – new translation, PM Press, 2022 There is also a discussion of the book, today, 15 September 2022, 5.30pm Chicago time. Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program is a revelation. It offers the fullest elaboration … Continue reading →

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Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History – Princeton University Press, June 2023

Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History – Princeton University Press, June 2023 The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. In his career-long engagement with … Continue reading →

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‘Indo-European Thought in Post-War France’, Warwick Seminar for Interdisciplinary French Studies, 31 May 2023

I’ll be giving a paper on the new project to the Warwick Seminar for Interdisciplinary French Studies on 31 May 2023. The seminar will be online, and open to all. More details nearer the time. It’s difficult to know what … Continue reading →

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Shifting landscapes of the medieval world – University of Cambridge, 13-15 September 2022

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Michel Foucault and the Body. Questioning the Paradoxes of Juridical and Political Inscriptions, University of Warwick, 16-17 September 2022

Michel Foucault and the Body. Questioning the Paradoxes of Juridical and Political Inscriptions

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Professors at the Collège de France 1985 – Bourdieu, Duby, Dumézil, Hadot, Veyne, et. al.

This photograph of professors at the Collège de France is interesting, and I’m curious about who else is in here. It was posted on Twitter by Jorge Galindo, who indicates some of the people – a. Pierre Bourdieu b. Georges … Continue reading →

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Klaus Dodds and Sverker Sörlin (eds.), Ice Humanities: Living, Working and Thinking in a Melting World – Manchester University Press, August 2022

Klaus Dodds and Sverker Sörlin (eds.), Ice Humanities: Living, Working, and Thinking in a Melting World – Manchester University Press, August 2022

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