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Dagmar Herzog, The New Fascist Body – Wirklichkeit, September 2025 Der neue faschistische Körper, trans. Lisa Jay Jeschke The success of new far-right movements cannot be explained by fear or rage alone – the pleasures of aggression and violence are … Continue reading →

Julian Schmid, Marvel, DC and US Security: The Superhero Genre and Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century – Edinburgh University Press, October 2025 Explores how Hollywood’s superhero genre has shaped US foreign policy and security discourses

William Paris, Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation – Oxford University Press, 2025 NDPR review by Aaron Berman Racial injustice, at its core, is the domination of time. Utopia has been one response to this domination. … Continue reading →

Siniša Malešević, Nationalism as a Way of Life: The Rise and Transformation of Modern Subjectivities – Cambridge University Press, November 2025

Joseph Petek and Brian G. Henning eds. Whitehead at Harvard, 1925-1927 – Edinburgh University Press, August 2025

Aleks Krotoski, The Immortalists: The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life – Bodley Head, October 2025 Thanks to Adalbert Saurma for the link. From the epic of Gilgamesh to the alchemy of the philosopher’s stone, humanity’s eternal … Continue reading →

Leonie Ansems de Vries, Politics of Exhaustion: Border Violence and Struggles Over Movement – Bristol University Press, April 2026 This book exposes the strategies that make migrants’ lives unliveable and explores their resistance to this violence. Drawing on years of … Continue reading →