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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 →

Emilio de Ípola, Althusser, The Infinite Farewell forthcoming from Duke University Press. Few details as yet, except for a glowing review from Warren Montag. “Emilio de Ípola’s Althusser: the Infinite Farewell is one of the most important books ever written on … Continue reading →

Laurence Publicover, Dramatic Geography: Romance, Intertheatricality, and Cultural Encounter in Early Modern Mediterranean Drama – the latest volume in the Early Modern Literary Geographies series from OUP. Focusing on early modern plays which stage encounters between peoples of different cultures, this … Continue reading →

A guide to close reading – Marika Rose at An und für sich I’m planning to give my first year undergraduates a worksheet designed to help them engage with the theological and philosophical texts we study during our course. I’ve … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Le foucaldien. Open access journal along Foucauldian lines Volume 3 – Issue 1 – 2017 About this Journal The peer-reviewed open access journal Le foucaldien publishes interdisciplinary research along the lines of the philosopher and historian Michel Foucault…

Originally posted on Imagined territories:
This research-project analyses how the interaction between prince, nobles and urban elites influenced the construction, perception, and representation of a territory. The test case will be the late medieval Duchy of Brabant, which still has…