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Rob Kitchin, Data Lives: How Data are Made and Shape Our Lives – Bristol University Press, February 2021 Companion website with some open access material, discount codes and a lot of endorsements. The word ‘data’ has entered everyday conversation, but … Continue reading →

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Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970–1980), edited by Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn, University of Minnesota Press, December 2020 [updated: April 2021] Founded by Michel Foucault and others in 1970–71,…

Sylvie Lafleur (ed.), Foucault à Montréal: Réflexions pour une criminologie critique – Éditions de la rue Dorion, January 2021 En 1976, Michel Foucault participe à une conférence organisée par l’Office des droits des détenus de concert avec l’École de criminologie … Continue reading →

Lucia Rubinelli, Constituent Power: A History – Cambridge University Press, April 2020 From the French Revolution onwards, constituent power has been a key concept for thinking about the principle of popular power, and how it should be realised through the … Continue reading →

Robert von Friedeburg, Luther’s Legacy: The Thirty Years War and the Modern Notion of ‘State’ in the Empire, 1530s to 1790s – Cambridge University Press, 2016 In this new account of the emergence of a distinctive territorial state in early … Continue reading →

Ziad Elmarsafy, Esoteric Islam in Modern French Thought: Massignon, Corbin, Jambet – Bloomsbury, January 2021 Why would a devout Catholic, a committed Protestant, and a Maoist atheist devote their lives and work to the study of esoteric aspects of Islam? … Continue reading →

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Daniele Lorenzini’s article “Philosophical Discourse and Ascetic Practice: On Foucault’s Readings of Descartes’?Meditations” is now available open access. The article is part of a Theory, Culture & Society Special Issue: ‘Foucault Before the Collège de…

Sloterdijk’s Anthropotechnics – special issue of Angelaki edited by Patrick Roney and Andrea Rossi Contributions by Thomas Macho, Sascha Rashof, Patrick Roney, Serge Trottein, Gary E Aylesworth, Christina Howells, Andrea Rossi, Antonio Lucci, Oliver Davis, Andrea Capra, and Robert Hughes. … Continue reading →

Michael Saward, Democratic Design – Oxford University Press, 2021 Democracy faces stern tests around the world in the twenty-first century. Democratic Design argues that to respond effectively and creatively, democrats need to work with a versatile new toolkit of concepts and … Continue reading →

Reece Jones, White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall – Beacon, September 2021 The first book to show that racial exclusion was behind all of the United States’ … Continue reading →