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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 →

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 Elon Musk declared himself president … Continue reading →

Patricia Owens and Katharina Rietzler (eds.), Women’s International Thought: A New History – Cambridge University Press, 2021 Women’s International Thought: A New History is the first cross-disciplinary history of women’s international thought. Bringing together some of the foremost historians and … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
On 7 January 2021 I’ll be part of a panel discussion for the Abolition Democracy 13/13 series, hosted by Bernard E. Harcourt at the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, and co-organised with Daniele Lorenzini…

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 →