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Working with archives – a collection of links

A few links about working with archives. I’ve started a page on this site with these links. At the moment it is just the links below, but intended to be a work-in-progress page and I’ll add other things that look … Continue reading

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Jameson at 90: A Verso Blog Series – updated

Jameson at 90: A Verso Blog Series Fredric Jameson turns 90 years old this month. To celebrate this milestone, we’re publishing a series of short essays focused on the major books in Jameson’s oeuvre. Several new entries added recently. Unintimidated languages – Daniel … Continue reading

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A minor note on UK prime ministers and general elections

There have been twelve UK prime ministers in my lifetime – Heath, Wilson, Callaghan, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak. Only five became prime minister because of a general election (Heath, Wilson, Thatcher, Blair, Cameron). Only four … Continue reading

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Andy Merrifield, “A Life Full Circle: Gramsci in Sardinia”

Andy Merrifield, “A Life Full Circle: Gramsci in Sardinia“

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Peter Salmon, “Paper Trails”, on philosophers and their archives, Aeon Essays

Peter Salmon, “Paper Trails“, on philosophers and their archives, Aeon Essays In part a review of the newly translated book on How Nietzsche Came in From the Cold: Tale of a Redemption by Philipp Felsch, it has a wider discussion … Continue reading

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Adrian Little, Temporal Politics: Contested Pasts, Uncertain Futures – Edinburgh University Press, May 2024

Adrian Little, Temporal Politics: Contested Pasts, Uncertain Futures – Edinburgh University Press, May 2024

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Matthijs Lok, Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past – Oxford University Press, March 2023 and New Books discussion

Matthijs Lok, Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past – Oxford University Press, March 2023 Contemporary Europe seems to be divided between progressive cosmopolitans sympathetic to the European Union and the ideals of the Enlightenment, and counter-enlightened conservative … Continue reading

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Genevieve Lloyd, Reading Spinoza in the Anthropocene – Edinburgh University Press, May 2024

Genevieve Lloyd, Reading Spinoza in the Anthropocene – Edinburgh University Press, May 2024

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Indo-European thought in twentieth-century France update 21: writing about Dumézil in the 1930s and 1940s and some archival work in Switzerland

In previous updates on this project, I have talked a bit about how in the chapter I’m currently writing I am trying to situate Dumézil’s books from the mid-1930s and 1940s in relation to his politics and his teaching. I’ve made some progress continuing that work. This is no small … Continue reading

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Rhys Machold, Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel – Stanford University Press, September 2024

Rhys Machold, Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel – Stanford University Press, September 2024 Homeland security is rarely just a matter of the homeland; it involves the circulation and multiplication of policing practices across borders. Though the term … Continue reading

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