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Benjamin Fraser, “The scholarly journal as puzzle: On time, collaboration and closure” (open access) As the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies (JUCS) closes its tenth year of publication, this second instalment of a two-part editorial turns towards questions regarding the nature of … Continue reading →

French interview with Carlo Ginzburg

Simona Forti, Totalitarianism: A Borderline Idea in Political Philosophy – Stanford University Press, January 2024 In the last decade, we have witnessed the return of one of the most controversial terms in the political lexicon: totalitarianism. What are we talking … Continue reading →

Raoul Vaneigem, Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century – trans. Bill Brown, Columbia University Press, February 2024 Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth … Continue reading →

Thomas Nail, Matter and Motion: A Brief History of Kinetic Materalism – Edinburgh University Press, December 2023 Tells a new history of materialism – from prehistory to the present – that resists stasis, heirarchy and domination

Md Azmeary Ferdoush, Sovereign Atonement: Citizenship, Territory, and the State at the Bangladesh-India Border – Cambridge University Press, May 2024 The former border enclaves of Bangladesh and India existed as extra-territorial spaces since 1947. They were finally exchanged and merged as host … Continue reading →

Daniele Lorenzini, Jacques Maritain and Human Rights: Totalitarianism, Anti-semitism and Democracy (1936–1951) – trans. C. C. Godfrey-Howell, St Augustine’s Press, March 2024 The influence of Jacques Maritain in the post-war era’s embrace of human rights is undeniable. Scholars, however, overlook a … Continue reading →

James A. Tyner, The Apathy of Empire: Cambodia in American Geopolitics – University of Minnesota Press, March 2024 The Apathy of Empire reveals just how significant Cambodia was to U.S. policy in Indochina during the Vietnam War, broadening the lens to … Continue reading →