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Call for Applications – BEYOND BORDERS supports research about borders and boundaries in past and present times. It promotes interdisciplinary exchange in the social sciences and humanities. The Call for Applications 2020 is open till January 15, 2021 and focuses … Continue reading →

Wolfram Eilenberger, Time of the Magicians: The Invention of Modern Thought 1919-1929 – Allen Lane, August 2020 The year is 1919. Walter Benjamin flees his overbearing father to scrape a living as a critic. Ludwig Wittgenstein, scion of one of … Continue reading →

Craig Jones, The War Lawyers: The United States, Israel and Juridical Warfare – Oxford University Press, December 2020 Over the last 20 years the world’s most advanced militaries have invited a small number of military legal professionals into the heart … Continue reading →

Distinguished Professor Bob Jessop Virtual Festschrift Thursday 29 October 1.00pm-17.00pm GMT (UK Timezone) The Centre for Alternatives to Social and Economic Inequalities and its Director, Distinguished Professor Beverley Skeggs, are pleased to host a Festschrift event to celebrate and recognise the … Continue reading →

Keith Ansell-Pearson & Rebecca Bamford, Nietzsche’s Dawn: Philosophy, Ethics, and the Passion of Knowledge – Wiley-Blackwell, November 2020 The first focused study of Nietzsche’s Dawn, offering a close reading of the text by two of the leading scholars on the philosophy … Continue reading →

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, Feifei Zhou eds. Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene – Stanford University Press, 2020 A digital, online project – here Every event in human history has been a more-than-human event. When hunter-gatherers burn the … Continue reading →

Jamie Lorimer, The Probiotic Planet: Using Life to Manage Life – University of Minnesota Press, November 2020 Most of us are familiar with probiotics added to milk or yogurt to improve gastrointestinal health. In fact, the term refers to any … Continue reading →

Adriana Cavarero, Judith Butler and Bonnie Honig, Towards a Feminist Ethics of Non-Violence – Fordham University Press, 2021 Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence brings together major feminist thinkers to debate Cavarero’s call for a postural ethics of nonviolence and a … Continue reading →

Saiba Varma, The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir – Duke University Press, October 2020 The Introduction is open access here. In The Occupied Clinic, Saiba Varma explores the psychological, ontological, and political entanglements between medicine and violence in Indian-controlled … Continue reading →

Federico Italiano (ed.), The Dark Side of Translation – Routledge, 2020 We tend to consider translation as something good, virtuous and bright, but it can also function as an instrument of concealment, silencing and misdirection—as something that darkens and obscures. … Continue reading →