Category Archives: Uncategorized

Volumetric Sovereignty – series of short pieces in Society and Space, edited by Franck Billé

Following those pieces in Cultural Anthropology, Franck Billé has put together another 25 short pieces on Volumetric Sovereignty, the first group of which has appeared in Society and Space. Ground Tim Ingold Lines Dylan Brady Interference Aditi Saraf Vortex Jeremy … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Speaking Volumes – series of short pieces in Contemporary Anthropology, edited by Franck Billé

Speaking Volumes – series of short pieces in Contemporary Anthropology, edited by Franck Billé. I’d posted about this before (I had a piece on Terrain), but there are some newer pieces added which I don’t think I linked to previously. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

NDPR reviews back – reviews of books on character and Spinoza

After a short break following Gary Gutting’s sad death, NDPR is back with reviews. The most recent reviews are listed here.

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

David Beer, Writings about old ideas: A year with Georg Simmel – Medium

David Beer, Writings about old ideas: A year with Georg Simmel at Medium An interesting piece on the process of writing his forthcoming book Georg Simmel’s Concluding Thoughts: Worlds, Lives, Fragments (Palgrave, 2019) For several years I’d been trying to write … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Stuart Schrader, Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing – U California Press, November 2019

Stuart Schrader, Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing – University of California Press, November 2019 From the Cold War through today, the U.S. has quietly assisted dozens of regimes around the world in suppressing civil unrest and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Books received – Macherey, Mezzadra & Neilson, Zevnik, Gotman, Owens and Almqvist, Sartre

Pierre Macherey, A Theory of Literary Production; Tim Smith-Lang, Michel Foucault’s What is an Author?; Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson, The Politics of Operation: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism; Andreja Zevnik, Lacan, Deleuze and World Politics; Kelina Gotman, Essays on Theatre and Change; Owens … Continue reading →

Posted in Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Pierre Macherey, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Alexandre Kojève, Atheism, translated by Jeff Love – Columbia UP 2018

Alexandre Kojève, Atheism, translated by Jeff Love, Columbia UP 2018 One of the twentieth century’s most brilliant and unconventional thinkers, Alexandre Kojève was a Russian émigré to France whose lectures on Hegel in the 1930s galvanized a generation of French intellectuals. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Corine Pelluchon, Nourishment: A Philosophy of the Political Body – Bloomsbury 2019

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Corine Pelluchon, Nourishment: A Philosophy of the Political Body, translated by Justin E. H. Smith,  Bloomsbury 2019 In this original and important book, Corine Pelluchon argues for nothing less than a new social contract that…

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Books received – Sartre, Althusser, Macey, Derrida, Edkins and Zehfuss

Three books for the Foucault work; the new edition of David Macey’s The Lives of Michel Foucault, with an afterword by me, and the third edition of Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss, Global Politics. The last has a chapter from me … Continue reading →

Posted in Jacques Derrida, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jenny Edkins, Louis Althusser, Maja Zehfuss, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Territory, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Society and Space book series – Adams, Circulation and Urbanization and Beer, The Data Gaze

Finally got series editor copies of the two new books in the Society and Space book series – David Beer, The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception and Ross Exo Adams, Circulation and Urbanization. Both highly recommended, of course! More details on … Continue reading →

Posted in Society and Space, Uncategorized | Leave a comment