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K. Maria D. Lane, Fluid Geographies: Water, Science, and Settler Colonialism in New Mexico – University of Chicago Press, July 2024 An unprecedented analysis of the origin story of New Mexico’s modern water management system. Maria Lane’s Fluid Geographies traces New Mexico’s transition … Continue reading →

“A Different Open Access Model for Journals“, Daily Nous Recent discussion of open-access journals and their financing prompted a reader to share information about a different model for publishers and journals converting to open-access, known as “subscribe-to-open”. This model isn’t … Continue reading →

Debbie Hall, Adventures in Maps – Bodleian Library Publishing, July 2024 A richly illustrated collection that maps twenty historical journeys. Adventures in Maps features twenty awe-inspiring journeys, ranging in distances from a few miles to great treks across land, sea, air, … Continue reading →

Brook Ziporyn, Experiments in Mystical Atheism: Godless Epiphanies from Daoism to Spinoza and Beyond – University of Chicago Press, October 2024 A new approach to the theism-scientism divide rooted in a deeper form of atheism.  Western philosophy is stuck in … Continue reading →

Foucault Studies 36: Special Issue – Foucault’s Legacy in Contemporary Thinking: Forty Years Later (1984-2024) The issue is edited by Valentina Antoniol and Stefano Marino – all open access and able to download either individual essays or the issue as … Continue reading →

Tuomo Tiisala, Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons: Elaborating Foucault’s Pragmatism – Routledge, July 2024 (open access) Update: Colin Koopman reviews it at NDPR This book argues that the received view of the distinction between freedom and power … Continue reading →

Shaina Potts, Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire – Duke University Press, September 2024 Introduction open access at this link In Judicial Territory, Shaina Potts reveals how the American empire has benefited from the post-World War II … Continue reading →

Manon Mathias, Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine – Routledge, April 2024 Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine offers a new way of conceptualizing food in literature: not as social or cultural symbol … Continue reading →