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Scott Sundvall, Caddie Alford, Ira J. Allen eds. Rhetoric Before and Beyond Post-Truth - University of Pittsburgh Press, December 2026

Scott Sundvall, Caddie Alford, Ira J. Allen eds. Rhetoric Before and Beyond Post-Truth – University of Pittsburgh Press, December 2026 Rhetoric has long had a contentious relationship with the idea of truth, and the field of contemporary rhetorical studies has often been skeptical of easy understandings of truth. Meanwhile, hostility to truth is doing a lot of real-world damage, even if truth…

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Frederic Jameson, After Year Zero: On Postwar German Thought - ed. Carson Welch, Verso, September 2026

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Foucault. Une aventure intellectuelle au Collège de France - exhibition and lectures, 30 September 2026-15 January 2027

Foucault. Une aventure intellectuelle au Collège de France – 30 September 2026-15 January 2027 L’exposition « Foucault. Une aventure intellectuelle au Collège de France » explore le parcours de Michel Foucault dans l’institution où il enseigna de 1970 à 1984. À l’occasion du centenaire de sa naissance, des manuscrits inédits, archives et témoignages audio et vidéo esquissent le mouvement d’une…

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James Clay Moltz, The Politics of Space Security: Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests - Stanford University Press, fourth edition, June 2026 

James Clay Moltz, The Politics of Space Security: Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests – Stanford University Press, fourth edition, June 2026  As space becomes more crowded with over 12,000 active satellites operated by over sixty countries and hundreds of private companies, preventing conflict in this strategic environment has become increasingly important. The Politics of…

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Eduardo A. Escobar, Kiersten Neumann and C. Jay Crisostomo eds. Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and Classification in Cuneiform Cultures - UCL Press, June 2026 (print and open access)

Eduardo A. Escobar, Kiersten Neumann and C. Jay Crisostomo eds. Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and Classification in Cuneiform Cultures – UCL Press, June 2026 (print and open access) Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and classification in cuneiform cultures delves into the history of the earliest writing cultures of the ancient Middle East, bridging disciplines that include ancient history, philology,…

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Andrea Brondino, Narrative and History in the Works of Umberto Eco, Carlo Ginzburg, and Wu Ming: Untangling the Strands - Bloomsbury, December 2026

Andrea Brondino, Narrative and History in the Works of Umberto Eco, Carlo Ginzburg, and Wu Ming: Untangling the Strands – Bloomsbury, December 2026 Using the works of prominent Italian authors of both fiction and nonfiction, this book challenges the established critical accounts of hybrid narratives and examines the shared influence in terms of style, content, and ambition. Focused on recent…

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Environments of Planetary Urbanization and Data-Spheres of Planetary Urbanization - two recent books from Neil Brenner's Urban Theory Lab

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Introducing Richard Wilson’s Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers - text of a talk at Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, 27 June 2026

These are my opening remarks to a roundtable celebrating Richard Wilson’s book Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers: Modern Friends, at an event on Shakespeare and British Inter-war Philosophy (1918-1939) held at Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare on 27 June 2026. A few lines were not read on the day. Richard Wilson’s Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers: Modern Friends was published by Bloomsbury in the…

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Julie Murray, Mary Wollstonecraft Against Modernity - Stanford University Press, June 2026

Julie Murray, Mary Wollstonecraft Against Modernity – Stanford University Press, June 2026 For many, Mary Wollstonecraft functions as Western feminism’s indisputable origin point and anchor. Once scorned as scandalous, later rehabilitated by the Victorians as a figure of hardworking traditional femininity, Wollstonecraft is today incorporated into a story of feminism as the West’s cherished…

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Book review of Ernst Kantorowicz, Radiances: Unpublished Essays on Gods, Kingship, and Images of the State, ed. Robert E. Lerner

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Books received - Agamben, Bachelard, Bloch, de la Durantaye, Wahl, Febvre, Braudel

Books bought new or second-hand recently, including the recent biography and graphic novel Marc Bloch: L’historien combattant, and some older books. The Agamben books are for teaching next academic year – Where are we now? collects his pandemic writings, which I’ll have to discuss. The oldest book is a first edition of Fernand Braudel’s La Mediterranée et le monde mediterranéen à l’époque de…

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Foucault’s Visit to McGill University, and his meetings with Quebec separatists – Stuart Elden and Marcelo Hoffman on the Verso blog

Marcelo Hoffman and I have written a short piece for the Verso blog about Foucault’s 1971 visit to Montreal. This was Foucault’s first time in Canada, where he gave three lectures on Nietzsche at McGill University and one on Sade at the Université de Montréal. Daniel Defert recalls that Foucault also met with Quebec separatists during this visit. While Foucault’s visits to California from 1975…

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Some of the many tributes to Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026)

There are too many to try to be comprehensive, but here are a few of the tributes and reposts of older material celebrating the life and career of the remarkable historian Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026). Obituary by John Foot in The Guardian Obituary by Giada Sampan in The Independent Anne Dujin, Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg, founding figure of microhistory, has died, Le Monde Maria Galeotti,…

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Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It's Too Late - Verso, June 2026

Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It’s Too Late – Verso, June 2026 It’s not enough to ask what the technology does – we must understand who it’s doing it for and who it’s doing it to As we enter the age of AI, we are in danger of being reduced to what Cory Doctorow dubs the ‘reverse centaur’. With that term he conjures…

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Eighteen months of 'Sunday Histories'

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Nicholas Brown, Maria Elisa Cevasco, Fabio Akcelrud Durão, and Robert T. Tally eds. The Future of Totality: Fredric Jameson and the Prospects of Critical Theory, Duke University Press, July 2026

Nicholas Brown, Maria Elisa Cevasco, Fabio Akcelrud Durão, and Robert T. Tally eds. The Future of Totality: Fredric Jameson and the Prospects of Critical Theory, Duke University Press, July 2026 Introduction available open access Following his death in 2024, Fredric Jameson’s vast body of work continues to challenge orthodoxies while retaining close ties to older critical and philosophical…

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Max Haiven, The Player and the Played: From Gamed Capitalism to 21st-Century Fascism - MIT Press, September 2026 (print and open access)

Max Haiven, The Player and the Played: From Gamed Capitalism to 21st-Century Fascism – MIT Press, September 2026 A provocative examination of the ways our economy has been rigged by financialization, and the importance of games to our dangerous political moment. In an age when capitalism feels like an unwinnable game, extreme reactionary ideas and politics are on the rise. The Hunger Games,…

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