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François Cusset, Thomas Daquin, French Theory, itinéraires d’une pensée rebelle – La Découverte/Delcourt 2025 Thanks to Foucault News for the link. On connaissait la French Pop , mais connaissez-vous la French Theory ? Comment Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida… sont devenus des stars aux … Continue reading →

Lise Vogel, The Contested Domain: Selected Writings on Marxism and Feminism, ed. Kirstin Munro, Pluto, November 2025 ‘A compelling critique of bourgeois society and women’s oppression – a critique that not only advances theory, but also engages deeply with the … Continue reading →

States of precarity in UK Higher Education geography – summary at the RGS-IBG website, with links to the report, plans, posters etc. Precarious working conditions are increasingly common throughout academia – from the proliferation of fixed term contracts (FTCs) to … Continue reading →

Maia Kotrosits, After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity – Duke University Press, November 2025 Introduction open access at this link In After Transformation, Maia Kotrosits offers a lyrical history of Christian late antiquity as it lives on in … Continue reading →

Julia Welland, Pleasure and Depletion in Contemporary Militarism – Edinburgh University Press, March 2026

J.D. Sargan, Trans Histories of the Medieval Book: An Experiment in Bibliography – ARC Humanities Press, October 2025 (print and open access) Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not … Continue reading →

Kathleen E. Kennedy, Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400–1550 – Concordia University Press, Spring 2026 The overlooked art of late medieval English manuscript illumination—its initials, borders, and non-figurative designs—finally receives its first book-length examination. Far from being mere decoration, … Continue reading →

Tom Harper, Nick Dykes, and Magdalena Peszko, Secret Maps: Maps You Were Never Meant to See, from the Middle Ages to Today – University of Chicago Press, November 2025 An illustrated story of the relationship between mapping and secrecy, charting … Continue reading →