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David Beer video interview with Katherine Hayles

David Beer video interview with Katherine Hayles A few weeks ago I interviewed Katherine Hayles about writing, reading, using theory, being interdisciplinary and about various aspects of her books and ideas. The interview is now available as a video on the Media Theory journal website (as well as the full video, they’ve also included short versions based on different themes covered, and a…

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Federico Marcon, Fascism: The History of a Word - University of Chicago Press, June 2025

Federico Marcon, Fascism: The History of a Word – University of Chicago Press, June 2025 A wide-ranging history of the term “fascism,” what it has meant, and what it means today. The rise and popular support for authoritarianism around the world and within traditional democracies have spurred debates over the meaning of the term “fascist” and when and whether it is appropriate to use it. The…

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Montserrat Herrero, Theopolitical Figures: Scripture, Prophecy, Oath, Charisma, Hospitality – Edinburgh University Press, paperback May 2025

Montserrat Herrero, Theopolitical Figures: Scripture, Prophecy, Oath, Charisma, Hospitality – Edinburgh University Press, paperback May 2025 Examines the meaning of five theopolitical figures – scripture, prophecy, oath, charisma and hospitality – in contemporary philosophical-political discourse Re-inscribes contemporary political concepts and experiences in the ‘theological locus’ from which…

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Laura Cremonesi, Rita Fulco and Valentina Surace (eds.), Political Ontology, Community and Institutions - SUNY Press, May 2025

Laura Cremonesi, Rita Fulco and Valentina Surace (eds.), Political Ontology, Community and Institutions – SUNY Press, May 2025 Focuses on key aspects of Robert Esposito’s thought and explores the ways in which some major contemporary thinkers have been crucial interlocutors in their elaboration. Political Ontology, Community, and Institutions offers a broad view of the current philosophical…

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Pierre Yves-Testenoire, Les cours de Roman Jakobson à l’École Libre des Hautes Études: New York, 1942–1946 - De Gruyter, August 2025

Pierre Yves-Testenoire, Les cours de Roman Jakobson à l’École Libre des Hautes Études: New York, 1942–1946 – De Gruyter, August 2025 Exiled in the United States during the Second World War, linguist Roman Jakobson gave a series of lectures at the École Libre des Hautes Études in New York. These classes – attended among others by Claude Lévi-Strauss – had a major impact on contemporary human…

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Henri Lefebvre and the “Liste Otto” of Prohibited Books in Occupied France

The “Liste Otto” was named after Otto Abetz, German ambassador to France under the Occupation, from August 1940 until the Liberation. The list indicated which books had to be removed from sale, with existing copies destroyed, after the German invasion of France. The September 1940 version replaced an earlier “Liste Bernhard”, and it was followed by a supplement, and two later versions in 1942 and…

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Shaina Potts, Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire - Duke University Press, September 2024

Shaina Potts, Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire – Duke University Press, September 2024 Introduction open access at this link I’ve shared news of the book before, but there is now a New Books discussion with Second Cold War Observatory (Jessica DiCarlo and Seth Schindler). Thanks to dmf for this link. In Judicial Territory, Shaina Potts reveals how the…

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Joseph Thomas Milburn ed. Haruki Murakami and Philosophical Concepts – Springer, 2025

Joseph Thomas Milburn ed. Haruki Murakami and Philosophical Concepts – Springer, 2025 This book provides interdisciplinary perspectives on the work of the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, with a particular focus on the conceptual material of his work. It seeks to answer the following questions: Is there any philosophic material or concepts in the work of Haruki Murakami? If so, why are they…

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Paul W. Schroeder, America's Fatal Leap: 1991-2016 and Stealing Horses to Great Applause: The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered - Verso, February 2025, introductions by Perry Anderson

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Andreas Elpidorou and Josefa Ros Velasco (ed.), The History and Philosophy of Boredom - Routledge, June 2025

Andreas Elpidorou and Josefa Ros Velasco (ed.), The History and Philosophy of Boredom – Routledge, June 2025 From Lucretius’s horror loci and Buddhist drowsiness to the religious boredom of acedia and the philosophical explorations of Kant, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger, boredom has long been a subject of philosophical fascination. Its story, unfolding through millennia, encompasses…

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"Before California: Foucault's Early Visits to the Americas" - audio recording of talk at Maison Française, Oxford, 16 June 2025

On 16 June 2025 I gave a short talk with the title “Before California: Foucault’s Early Visits to the Americas”, to the Remembering/Forgetting Foucault: Reassessing a Critical Legacy workshop at the Maison Française, Oxford. The audio recording of my talk is here The piece draws on a forthcoming article for Foucault Studies, summarised here – Foucault at Buffalo in 1970 and 1972: The Desire for…

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Henry Somers-Hall and Jeffrey A. Bell (eds.), The Deleuzian Mind - Routledge, May 2025

Henry Somers-Hall and Jeffrey A. Bell (eds.), The Deleuzian Mind – Routledge, May 2025 Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. As with other French philosophers of his generation, such as Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, Deleuze’s work and his collaboration with Félix Guattari has also had huge influence in other disciplines,…

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“Political Emotions on the Far Right”, TANK - papers from Remarque Institute workshop in November 2024

“Political Emotions on the Far Right”, TANK – papers from Remarque Institute workshop in November 2024 Stefanos Geroulanos, Dagmar Herzog, Zahid R. Chaudhary, Fabian Muniesa, Alberto Toscano and Carlo Invernizzi Accetti

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Josué V. Harari, the Marquis de Sade, and Michel Foucault’s 1970 lectures in Buffalo

Josué V. Harari plays a small but important role in the story of Foucault in the United States. A PhD researcher at the University at Buffalo when Foucault visited in the early 1970s, he went on to edit a 1979 volume of essays, Textual Strategies: Perspectives in Post-Structuralist Criticism, in which Foucault’s essay “What is an Author?” appeared. Although it claims to be the lecture Foucault…

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“Language and Image Minus Cognition”: An Interview with Leif Weatherby - Journal of History of Ideas blog; Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism - University of Minnesota Press, June 2025

“Language and Image Minus Cognition”: An Interview with Leif Weatherby – Journal of History of Ideas blog with Robin Manley Leif Weatherby is an Associate Professor of German at New York University, where he directs the Digital Theory Lab. Robin Manley spoke with Dr. Weatherby about his latest book, Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism (University of Minnesota Press,…

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Christoph Schuringa, A Social History of Analytic Philosophy: How Politics has Shaped an Apolitical Philosophy - Verso, June 2025

Christoph Schuringa, A Social History of Analytic Philosophy: How Politics has Shaped an Apolitical Philosophy – Verso, June 2025 How a supposedly apolitical form of philosophy owes its continuing power to social and political forces Analytic philosophy is the leading form of philosophy in the English-speaking world. What explains its continued success? Christoph Schuringa argues that its…

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Fanon's Philosophical Legacy: Fanon at 100 - Birkbeck, 27-28 June 2025

Fanon’s Philosophical Legacy: Fanon at 100 – Birkbeck, 27-28 June 2025 2025 marks the centenary year of the birth of Frantz Fanon. Despite Fanon’s enormous influence in postcolonial studies, political thought, the history of Marxism and the humanities more widely, the specifically philosophical significance of his works is less commonly recognized. This significance can be borne out in two…