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Nick Srnicek, Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI – Polity, October 2025 Looking beyond the flurry of rapid changes in artificial intelligence, Silicon Empires uncovers the deep economic forces guiding the expansion of AI. Nick Srnicek offers a clear-eyed … Continue reading →

CFP: Vesper: Journal of Architecture, Arts & Theory no 14 – La Volontà di sapere/The Will to Knowledge Michel Foucault, in La volonté de savoir (1976), described how the mechanisms of the examination of conscience belonging to the pastoral tradition of the … Continue reading →

Maurizio Lazzarato, War and Money: The Imperialism of the Dollar – trans. Jason Francis McGimsey, Verso, June 2025 The business of imperial conflict: Why capitalism needs war. Maurizio Lazzarato’s War and Money explores the connections between capitalist expansion, international economic conflict, and … Continue reading →

CFP: The Group of the Rue Saint-Benoît: Rethinking Intellectual Practice – Paris, 9 January 2026 deadline for abstracts is 1 September 2025 9-11 Rue de Constantine Paris 7007 University of London Institute in Paris in collaboration with l’Institut Mémoires de l’édition … Continue reading →

Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality – Cambridge University Press, August 2025 Update: New Books discussion with Morteza Hajizadeh – thanks to dmf for the link How did modern territoriality emerge and what are … Continue reading →

Ute Wittstock, Marseille 1940: The Flight of Literature, trans. Daniel Bowles – Polity, May 2025 June 1940: France surrenders to Germany. The Gestapo is searching for Heinrich Mann and Franz Werfel, Hannah Arendt, Lion Feuchtwanger and many other writers and … Continue reading →

Richard L. Smith and Edmond Smith – Global Trade in the Premodern World: Thematic Approaches to Routes, Realms, and Networks – Routledge, June 2025 Global Trade in the Premodern World offers an authoritative and expansive history of exchange and interaction across … Continue reading →

Georgios Varouxakis, The West: The History of an Idea, Princeton University Press, July 2025 update October 2025: New Books discussion with Morteza Hajizadeh How did “the West” come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did … Continue reading →