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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 →

Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez, Unmaking Botany: Science & Vernacular Knowledge in the Colonial Philippines – Duke University Press, April 2025 The Introduction is available open access here. In Anglo-European botany, it is customary to think of the vernacular as that which … Continue reading →

Writing Intellectual History after the “Age of Forms”: An Interview with Elías J. Palti – Journal of the History of Ideas blog – Part I and Part II In this interview, primary editors Jacob Saliba and Zac Endter speak with … Continue reading →

Johanna Vuorelma, Irony in International Politics – Edinburgh University Press, December 2024 Examines the use of ironic language among political leaders in international politics. Irony in International Politics investigates ironic language in international politics, focusing on how political leaders use irony … Continue reading →