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Hannah Arendt on What Freedom and Revolution Really Mean – previously unpublished essay at LitHub (also in print in The New England Review). Thanks to Peter Gratton for the link. In the 1960s, some years after the publication of her … Continue reading →

“The Truth That Hurts, or the Corps à Corps of Tongues: An interview with Jacques Derrida” – new translation in Parallax (requires subscription), No abstract, so first note below: 1 Translator’s note [TN]: What follows is a translation of an … Continue reading →

Alex Jeffrey, The Edge of Law: Legal Geographies of a War Crimes Court – Cambridge University Press, December 2019 The Edge of Law explores the spatial implications of establishing a new legal institution in the wake of violent conflict. Using … Continue reading →

The Global Epistemics Book Series – now launched, edited by Inanna Hamati-Ataya (Centre for Global Knowledges, University of Cambridge). Global Epistemics is a transdisciplinary series established in partnership with Rowman & Littlefield International, that aims to foster, promote, and disseminate … Continue reading →

Andrea Ballestero, A Future History of Water – Duke University Press, June 2019 Based on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, A Future History of Water traces the unspectacular work necessary to make … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michel Foucault, “Discourse and Truth” and “Parresia”, Chicago University Press, 2019 Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini With an Introduction by Frédéric Gros English edition established by Nancy Luxon The Chicago Foucault Project This…