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Étienne Balibar — Politics and Science: One Vocation or Two? at boundary 2 online (open access) Translated from the French by Tommaso Manfredini, originally published in Libération

Ben Jacobsen and David Beer, Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past – Bristol University Press, April 2021 Social media platforms hold vast amounts of biographical data about our lives. They … Continue reading →

Paul Allen Miller, Foucault’s Seminars on Antiquity: Learning to Speak the Truth – Bloomsbury, November 2021 In 1980, Michel Foucault’s work makes two decisive turns. On the one hand, as announced at the start of his course at the Collège … Continue reading →

Vicki Squire, Nina Perkowski, Dallal Stevens and Nick Vaughan-Williams, Reclaiming Migration: Voices from Europe’s ‘migrant crisis’ – Manchester University Press, March 2021 Reclaiming migration critically assesses the EU’s migration policy by presenting the unheard voices of the so-called migrant crisis. … Continue reading →

One editing project moves into production; another one just beginning… More details soon. Update: the Lefebvre project is discussed here.

Helen McCabe, John Stuart Mill, Socialist – McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021 Best known as the author of On Liberty, John Stuart Mill remains a canonical figure in liberalism today. Yet according to his autobiography, by the mid-1840s he placed himself … Continue reading →

Shannon Mattern, A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences – Princeton University Press, August 2021 Computational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/9780674976313-lg.jpg Mira L. Siegelberg, Statelessness: A Modern History – Harvard University Press, 2020 The story of how a much-contested legal category—statelessness—transformed the international legal order and redefined the relationship between states and their citizens. Two…

I don’t believe I shall ever forget the spring of 1937. Every day, except Friday and Saturday when I held the class and seminar at the university, I sat down at my desk immediately after lunch, at two o’clock. If … Continue reading →