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Julia Kristeva, Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death or Language Haunted by Sex, trans. Armine Kotin Mortimer, Columbia University Press, December 2023

Julia Kristeva, Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death or Language Haunted by Sex, trans. Armine Kotin Mortimer, Columbia University Press, December 2023

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Johan Östling and David Larsson Heidenblad, The History of Knowledge – trans. Lena Olsson, Cambridge University Press, January 2024 (print and open access)

Johan Östling and David Larsson Heidenblad, The History of Knowledge – trans. Lena Olsson, Cambridge University Press, January 2024 (print and open access) Despite the date, the e-book is available now. This Element provides a pedagogical overview of the history of … Continue reading

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Richard Lynch and Daniele Lorenzini, Bibliography of Foucault’s shorter works in English translation – newly updated (2023)

Richard Lynch’s very useful Bibliography of Foucault’s shorter works in English translation has been newly updated by Daniele Lorenzini. This is a continual work in progress, and updates and corrections should be sent to Daniele for inclusion in future versions (details … Continue reading

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CFP: Foucault: Art, Histories, and Visuality in the 21st Century OCAD (Ontario College of Art and Design) University, Toronto/Tkaronto, Canada, May 29-30, 2024

Foucault: Art, Histories, and Visuality in the 21st Century OCAD (Ontario College of Art and Design) University, Toronto/Tkaronto, Canada, May 29-30, 2024 The French philosopher Michel Foucault’s (1926–84) work has had a major effect on scholars of art and visuality … Continue reading

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Earthly volumes, voluminous materialities: Working with apprehension – special issue of Territory, Politics, Governance, edited by Mia Bennett and Klaus Dodds (part open access)

Earthly volumes, voluminous materialities: Working with apprehension – special issue of Territory, Politics, Governance, edited by Mia Bennett and Klaus Dodds (part open access) Earthly volumes, voluminous materialities: working with apprehensionMia M. Bennett & Klaus DoddsPages: 1-11 | DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2023.2242394 Data centres … Continue reading

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Carolyn Dever, How to Lose a Library at Public Books – the best thing I’ve read on the ongoing and very serious British Library problems

Carolyn Dever, How to Lose a Library at Public Books – the best thing I’ve read on the ongoing and very serious British Library problems (via @nescio13 on X/Twitter) What’s business as usual at the Victoria and Albert Museum is … Continue reading

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Six degrees of T.S. Eliot – the links through Jean de Menasce to Émile Benveniste

Given how connected he was, I suppose it was only a matter of time before my Indo-European research project led me in the direction of T.S. Eliot. It came in the lead I was following with Jean de Menasce, who … Continue reading

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Julien Larregue, Hereditary: The Persistence of Biological Theories of Crime – Stanford University Press, January 2024

Julien Larregue, Hereditary: The Persistence of Biological Theories of Crime – Stanford University Press, January 2024 Since the 1990s, a growing number of criminal courts around the world have been using expert assessments based on behavioral genetics and neuroscience to … Continue reading

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Jeffrey Ahlman, Ghana: A Political and Social History – Bloomsbury, November 2023

Jeffrey Ahlman, Ghana: A Political and Social History – Bloomsbury, November 2023 Few African countries have attracted the international attention that Ghana has. In the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the then-colonial Gold Coast emerged as a key political and … Continue reading

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Joseph Albernaz, Common Measures: Romanticism and the Groundlessness of Community – Stanford University Press, August 2024

Joseph Albernaz, Common Measures: Romanticism and the Groundlessness of Community – Stanford University Press, August 2024 What happens to the experience of community when the grounds of communal life collapse? The Romantic period’s upheaval cast both traditional communal organizations of … Continue reading

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