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Dimitris Vardoulakis, The Ruse of Techne: Heidegger’s Magical Materialism – Fordham University Press, September 2024 The Ruse of Techne offers a reappraisal of Heidegger’s entire work by focusing on the forms of activity he regards as separate from instrumentality. Non-instrumental activities … Continue reading →

Madeleine Chalmers, French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn – Edinburgh University Press, December 2024 Update October 2025: New Books discussion with Gina Stamm. Uncovers the nonhuman turn’s unexpected roots in the avant-gardes and mysticisms of nineteenth-century France French Technological … Continue reading →

Nick Couldry, The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can’t? – Polity, October 2024 update: thanks to dmf for a link to a Cultural Studies podcast discussion of the book Over the … Continue reading →

Christine Sypnowich, G. A. Cohen: Liberty, Justice and Equality – Polity, July 2024 Part of the Key Contemporary Thinkers series G. A. Cohen was one of the towering political philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His intellectual … Continue reading →

Virginia Mantouvalou and Jonathan Wolff (eds.), Structural Injustice and the Law – UCL Press, open access, October 2024 In developing her conception of structural injustice, Iris Marion Young made a strict distinction between large-scale collective injustice that results from the … Continue reading →

Michael Hughes, Feliks Volkhovskii: A Revolutionary Life – Open Book, now published and available open access as pdf Feliks Volkhovskii (1846-1914) was a significant figure in the Russian revolutionary movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He lived through pivotal … Continue reading →