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Gary D. Jaworski, Erving Goffman and the Cold War – Lexington Books, August 2023 New Books discussion with Matt Dawson. Thanks to dmf for the link. Erving Goffman and the Cold War presents a provocative new reading of the work of … Continue reading →

Michael Rembis, Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum – Oxford University Press, 2025 The asylum–at once a place of refuge, incarceration, and abuse–touched the lives of many Americans living between 1830 and 1950. What began as a … Continue reading →

John M. Efron, All Consuming: Germans, Jews, and the Meaning of Meat – Stanford University Press, April 2025 In Judaism, meat is of paramount importance as it constitutes the very focal point of the dietary laws. With an intricate set … Continue reading →

Ingrid Robeyns, Limitarianism: The Case against Extreme Wealth – Penguin, paperback 2025 “A powerful case for limitarianism—the idea that we should set a maximum on how much resources one individual can appropriate. A must-read!”—Thomas Piketty, bestselling author of Capital in … Continue reading →

Michel Serres, Hermes II: Interference, trans. Randolph Burke – University of Minnesota Press, April 2025 Unveiling the hidden connections in the network of knowledge Hermes II: Interference is the second in a series of works by philosopher Michel Serres using Hermes, … Continue reading →

Stephen Legg, Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities – University of Georgia Press, March 2025 Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities provides a spatial analysis of the anticolonial governmentalities that emerged in the colonial capital of British India. Reading across imperial … Continue reading →

This has taken an age to reach this stage, but we now have proofs for Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, translated by Federico Testa, edited and introduced by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, forthcoming in Historical Materialism. … Continue reading →

Kristin Ross, The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life – Verso, September 2024 What is the Commune? A leading radical historian looks at the global resurgence of the commune and asks how they can become sites of liberation. When … Continue reading →

“Interview with James Bernauer”, Agustín Colombo and Bernales Odino Martín, Dorsal: Revista de estudios Foucaultianos, 2025 (open access pdf) An interesting interview with James Bernauer about attending Foucault’s lectures, meeting him, organising a meeting with theologians, and Foucault’s impact on his … Continue reading →