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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
David Harvey, The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles – Pluto, October 2020 Amidst waves of economic crises, class struggle and neo-fascist reaction, few possess the clarity and foresight of world-renowned theorist, David Harvey. Since the publication of his…

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Antoine Traisnel, Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition, Minnesota University Press, 2020 University of Minnesota Press | 368 pages | September 2020ISBN? 978-1-5179-0964-2 | paper | $27.00 ISBN? 978-1-5179-0963-5 |…

Peter Brooks, Balzac’s Lives – NYRB, October 2020 Balzac, more than anyone, invented the nineteenth-century novel, and Oscar Wilde went so far as to say that Balzac had invented the nineteenth century. But it was above all through the wonderful, … Continue reading →

Bernard E. Harcourt is interviewed about his new book Critique and Praxis (Columbia University Press, 2020) here. Q. How did you come up with the idea for this book? A. The times of crisis that we live in, to be frank—that’s what … Continue reading →

Lewis Coyne, Hans Jonas: Life, Technology and the Horizons of Responsibility – Bloomsbury, October 2020 Hans Jonas (1903–1993) was one of the most important German-Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. A student of Martin Heidegger and close friend of Hannah … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michel Foucault, Political Spirituality as the Will for Alterity: An Interview with the Nouvel Observateur. Critical Inquiry Volume 47, Number 1, 2020. Translated and introduced by Sabina Vaccarino Bremner. Abstract An interview with Michel Foucault…

Veronica della Dora, The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor – University of Chicago Press, December 2020 The term mantle has inspired philosophers, geographers, and theologians and shaped artists’ and mapmakers’ visual vocabularies for thousands of years. According to … Continue reading →