Category Archives: Uncategorized

Corine Pelluchon, Les Lumières à l’âge du vivant – Seuil, January 2021 Comment défendre les Lumières aujourd’hui ? Leur idéal d’émancipation a-t-il encore un sens ? On ne saurait se borner à invoquer un esprit des Lumières immuable dans un … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Power and Time: Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History, edited by Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos and Natasha Wheatley – University of Chicago Press, December 2020 Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet…

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Vol III, No 1: Governmentality, Liberalism, Biopower, Genealogy of the Modern Subject. Foucault’s Lectures at the Collège de France 1978-80 Security, Territory and Population; The Birth of Biopolitics; On the Government of the Living. Volume…

Hannah Jones, Violent Ignorance : Confronting Racism and Migration Control – Zed/Bloomsbury, January 2021 An elected politician is assassinated in the street by a terrorist associated with extreme political groups, and the national response is to encourage picnics. Thousands of … Continue reading →

Cristina A. Bejan, Intellectuals and Fascism in Interwar Romania: The Criterion Association – Palgrave, 2019 and discussion at New Books Network with Steven Seegel In 1930s Bucharest, some of the country’s most brilliant young intellectuals converged to form the Criterion … Continue reading →

Ann Heberlein, On Love and Tyranny: The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt – Anansi, translated by Alice Menzies, January 2021 In an utterly unique approach to biography, On Love and Tyranny traces the life and work of the iconic German Jewish … Continue reading →

A strange year of reading. For long periods I found it very hard to concentrate on reading that wasn’t immediately useful for a writing project or other work task (and even then…). Novels were a particular struggle. I found reading … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
This text was first pub­lished in Avanti!, Turin edi­tion, from his col­umn “Sotto la Mole,” Jan­u­ary 1, 1916. Translated by Alberto Toscano for Viewpoint. ? Every morn­ing, when I wake again under the pall of the sky,…

Geographers, sociologists, philosophers, etc. on covid-19 Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre? Stuart Hall’s documentary on Marx and Marxism Georges Bataille – Oeuvres complètes and other French collections; English translations My favourite academic books of 2019 [other years here] … Continue reading →