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Milton Santos, The Nature of Space, translated by Brenda Baletti (Duke, 2021). In The Nature of Space, pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos attends to globalization writ large and how local and global orders intersect in the construction of space. Santos offers a … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Cat Moir,?Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics?– hardback Brill 2019; paperback?Haymarket, 2020 Discussion 14 December 2021, 5pm – details and registration here Update: the stream of this discussion will be here Cat Moir’s 2020…

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Foucault in the Panopticon How Michel Foucault’s encounters in Poland’s heavily policed gay community informed his ideas GEOFF SHULLENBERGER | Reason, FROM THE DECEMBER 2021 ISSUE In 1958, the 32-year-old philosopher Michel Foucault arrived in…

Angela Davis: An Autobiography – new edition, Haymarket, January 2022 Angela Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black Liberation, feminist, queer, and prison abolitionist movements for more than 50 years. First published and edited … Continue reading →

Originally posted on andy merrifield:
 Guy Debord has been dead twenty-seven years today. In Panegyric, his elegiac autobiography, the author of The Society of the Spectacle famously said that more than anything else his life had been marked by the…

Alex Danchev, Magritte: A Life – Profile, November 2021 Great to see this book is now out – completed after Danchev’s untimely death by Sarah Whitfield. There is a review in The Guardian. ‘The first significant biography of the artist’ … Continue reading →

Eileen Hunt Botting (ed.), Portraits of Wollstonecraft, two volumes, Bloomsbury, May 2021 A major, and very expensive, reference work on Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary Wollstonecraft’s watershed contribution to theories of women’s human rights and her international reception by both Western and non-Western … Continue reading →

Keith Tribe, Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950 – OUP, December 2021. Only expensive hardback and e-book at the moment, unfortunately. During the late nineteenth century concerns about international commercial rivalry were often expressed in terms of … Continue reading →