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Jean Wahl, Transcendence and The Concrete: Selected Writings is reviewed at NDPR. Although not that well known in English, Wahl was a significant figure in France in the mid-twentieth century, and among other things was one of Foucault’s teachers. His book … Continue reading →

Some interesting thoughts here – ‘7 things I wish I had done during my PhD‘. Though largely from the perspective of a scientist, there are things here relevant to other disciplines.

A number of responses to Peter Sloterdjk’s ‘Pseudonymous Politics’ are now available to download from New Perspectives here. The original article is also open access here. Claudia Aradau – Performative Politics and International Relations – Friedrich Kratochwil – Of Myths, Lies, … Continue reading →

Thresholds – A pop-up symposium – 22 September 2017, University of York Thresholds is intended to bring together diverse disciplines including sociology, politics, history, anthropology, women’s studies, critical management, human geography, social policy. The format will be a short papers … Continue reading →

Jason Dittmer’s new book, Diplomatic Material: Affect, Assemblage, and Foreign Policy is out with Duke University Press. In Diplomatic Material Jason Dittmer offers a counterintuitive reading of foreign policy by tracing the ways that complex interactions between people and things … Continue reading →

Ernesto Bassi discusses his book An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada’s Transimperial Greater Caribbean World at the New Books Network. Here’s the book description from the Duke UP site: In An Aqueous Territory Ernesto Bassi traces the configuration of … Continue reading →

Stefanos Geroulanos, Transparency in Postwar France: A Critical History of the Present is now out with Stanford University Press. This book returns to a time and place when the concept of transparency was met with deep suspicion. It offers a panorama … Continue reading →