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Books received – The Anti-Security Collective, Barthes, de Beistegui, Duchesne-Guillemin, Nabokov, JHI, Barua, Dumézil

A pile of recently bought or sent books including The Anti-Security Collective, The Security Abolition Manifesto, Miguel de Beistegui, Lacan: A Genealogy, Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin, Zoroastre, Vladimir Nabokov’s translation of The Song of Igor’s Campaign, the most recent issue of the … Continue reading

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Tamara Caraus, Militant Cosmopolitics: Another World Horizon – Edinburgh University Press, May 2024 (paperback)

now in paperback – Tamara Caraus, Militant Cosmopolitics: Another World Horizon – Edinburgh University Press, May 2024

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Ianir Milevski (ed.), Marxist Archaeology Today – Historical Materialist Perspectives in Archaeology from America, Europe and the Near East in the 21st Century – Brill, September 2023

Ianir Milevski (ed.), Marxist Archaeology Today – Historical Materialist Perspectives in Archaeology from America, Europe and the Near East in the 21st Century – Brill, September 2023 With this series, usually paperbacks follow 12 months after publication with Haymarket. This … Continue reading

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Renea Frey, The Theory, History, and Practice of Parrhesia: The Rhetoric of Resistance – Palgrave, September 2024

Renea Frey, The Theory, History, and Practice of Parrhesia: The Rhetoric of Resistance – Palgrave, September 2024 This book examines the theory, history, and practice of parrhesia—the act of speaking truth to power, when doing so is risky for the rhetor—and … Continue reading

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Simin Fadaee, Global Marxism: Decolonisation and revolutionary politics – Manchester University Press, September 2024

Simin Fadaee, Global Marxism: Decolonisation and revolutionary politics – Manchester University Press, September 2024 A cutting-edge exploration of how Marx’s ideas have been adopted and adapted by revolutionary thinkers in the Global South. For much of the twentieth century, the … Continue reading

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Daniel G. König (ed.), Entangled Worlds: 600-1350 — Harvard University Press, March 2025

Daniel G. König (ed.), Entangled Worlds: 600-1350 — Harvard University Press, March 2025 The period between the seventh and fourteenth centuries is hardly thought of as an era of globalization. Entire societies in the Americas, Australia, and Oceania developed in relative … Continue reading

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Valentina Antoniol and Stefano Marino (eds.), Foucault’s Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman’s Somaesthetics – Bloomsbury, August 2024

Valentina Antoniol and Stefano Marino (eds.), Foucault’s Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman’s Somaesthetics – Bloomsbury, August 2024 Bringing together Michel Foucault’s aesthetics of existence and Richard Shusterman’s somaesthetics, this volume provides a critical comparison of two of the most influential … Continue reading

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Doyle D. Calhoun, The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire – Duke University Press, October 2024, with open access introduction available now

Doyle D. Calhoun, The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire – Duke University Press, October 2024 The open access introduction is available now. Throughout the French empire, from the Atlantic and the Caribbean to West and North … Continue reading

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Ingrid A. Medby, Arctic State Identity: Geography, History, and Geopolitical Relations – Manchester University Press, January 2025 

Ingrid A. Medby, Arctic State Identity: Geography, History, and Geopolitical Relations – Manchester University Press, January 2025  This book sets out to answer what it means to hold a formal title as one of the eight ‘Arctic states’; is there … Continue reading

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Shannon Mattern, Library as Infrastructure – Places Journal

Shannon Mattern, Library as Infrastructure – Places Journal Fascinating and beautifully illustrated piece on libraries.

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