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Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism – now out with Rowman and Littlefield

Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism, edited by Robin van den Akker, Alison Gibbons and Timotheus Vermeulen, now out with Rowman and Littlefield Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, Depth brings together many of the most influential voices in the scholarly and … Continue reading

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Richard C. Powell, Studying Arctic Fields: Cultures, Practices and Environmental Sciences – now out with MQUP

Richard C. Powell, Studying Arctic Fields: Cultures, Practices and Environmental Sciences – now out with McGill-Queen’s University Press. In recent years the circumpolar region has emerged as the key to understanding global climate change. The plight of the polar bear, … Continue reading

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Books received – Soussloff and Favreau on Foucault, Kleinberg, Gandal, Höfele, Flynn on Sartre, Withers

Some recently received books – Catherine M. Soussloff, Foucault on Painting; Jean-François Favreau, Vertiges de l’écriture : Michel Foucault et la littérature (1954-1970); Ethan Kleinberg, Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past; Keith Gandal, The Gun and the Pen: Hemingway, … Continue reading

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Matthew Longo, Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 – now out with CUP

Matthew Longo, Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 – now out with Cambridge University Press. Borders sit at the center of global politics. Yet they are too often understood as thin lines, as they appear on … Continue reading

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Reassessing the Trump presidency, one year on – forum in Political Geography (open access)

Reassessing the Trump presidency, one year on – forum in Political Geography with Philip E.Steinberg, Sam Page, Jason Dittmer, Banu Gökariksel, Sara Smith, Alan Ingram and Natalie Koch

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Alex Danchev on research and French archives and libraries

Just finished reading Alex Danchev’s very interesting Georges Braque: A Life. Among other things, I was struck by just how much archival work he did. Here’s his comment from the acknowledgements on research and French archives: Researching is adventuring into the unknown. Blandine … Continue reading

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Henri Lefebvre, The Survival of Capitalism – how to reconstruct an English version of the French text

Henri Lefebvre’s 1973 book La survie du capitalisme: La reproduction des rapports de production (Anthropos, third edition 2002) was one of the relatively few of his books which was translated within a few years of its initial publication. Many of … Continue reading

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302 interviews with philosophers at 3am Magazine

End times philosophy interviews: the first 302 Thematically organised interviews at 3am Magazine. Thanks to David Beer for the link.

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For a Marxist Poetics of Science: An Interview with Esther Leslie

For a Marxist Poetics of Science: An Interview with Esther Leslie at the Verso blog or in Historical Materialism In this career-spanning interview with George Souvlis, Esther Leslie discusses Walter Benjamin, animated film, the history of color, the Historical Materialism project, and … Continue reading

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Figure/Ground interview with Leonard Lawlor

Figure/Ground interview with Leonard Lawlor – lots of good discussion of European philosophy, including Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Heidegger and Lyotard. Also some interesting comments about writing: What advice would you give to young graduate students and aspiring university professors? I … Continue reading

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