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Microhistory and Global History – discussion between Carlo Ginzburg and Francesca Trivellato

The French Programme: How Theory Came to London – Colm McAuliffe on the 1973 ICA festival that sparked British interest in Francophone structuralist and post-structuralist thought. March 1973: two months after Britain joins the European Economic Community, the French historian of … Continue reading →

Does Attention to Language Matter Anymore? Philology, Translation, Criticism – special issue of boundary 2, 2021 (requires subscription) Paul A. Bové / Editor’s Note / 1 Jonathan Arac / Ways of Working with Language / 3 David Golumbia / The … Continue reading →

Sasha Engelmann, Sensing Art in the Atmosphere: Elemental Lures and Aerosolar Practices – Routledge, September 2020 This book engages artistic interventions in the aerial elements to investigate the aesthetics and politics of atmosphere. Sensing Art in the Atmosphere: Elemental Lures … Continue reading →

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BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking – ‘Foucault: The History of Sexuality, Volume 4‘ – Shahidha Bari with Lisa Downing, Stuart Elden, and Stephen Shapiro, 25 February 2021, 10pm (and new available online) On the day…

Michael J. Shapiro, Writing Politics: Studies in Compositional Method – Routledge, June 2021 Writing Politics is a methods book designed to instruct on politically focused literary inquiry. Exploring the political sensibilities that arise from the way literary fiction re-textualizes historical periods … Continue reading →

Michael J. Shapiro, The Phenomenology of Religious Belief: Media, Philosophy, and the Arts – Bloomsbury, June 2021 In The Phenomenology of Religious Belief, the renowned philosopher Michael J. Shapiro investigates how art – and in particular literature and film – can … Continue reading →

Foucault and Christianity – a really interesting online resource from Niki Kasumi Clements, as part of the research for her book Foucault the Confessor. As part of my research on Michel Foucault’s engagement with early Christian texts, I have been … Continue reading →

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Klaus Dodds, Border Wars: The Conflicts that will Define our Future – Ebury Press, February 2021 Can Donald Trump really build that wall? What does Brexit mean for Ireland’s border? And what would happen if…