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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 →

There will be a virtual book launch for Jessica Dubow, In Exile: Philosophy, Geography and Judaic Thought (Bloomsbury, November 2020) on 17 March 2021, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm (UK time) IAS Book Launch – In Exile: Geography, Philosophy and Judaic Thought … Continue reading →

The Political Imaginarium: Image, Object, Gesture In his book Le Portrait du roi (1981), Louis Marin famously claims that “The king is only truly king, that is, monarch, in images.” To be sure, Marin’s work explicitly refers back to a premodern political theology of … Continue reading →

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 →