Brahim El Guabli, Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences - @ucpress.bsky.social, November 2025 www.ucpress.edu/books/desert... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Ibrahim Fawzy newbooksnetwork.com/desert-imagi...

Lasse Thomassen, Derrida, Deconstruction and Political Theory - @edinburghup.bsky.social, January 2026 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-derrida...

Does anybody know more about the intellectual circle of the Praxis, or Korčula Summer School, a forum for critical, non-dogmatic Marxism in Yugoslavia, where figures such as Henri Lefebvre, alongside Herbert Marcuse, Ernst Bloch, and Lucien Goldmann were involved? @stuartelden.bsky.social

www.e-ir.info/2026/02/01/i... Interview - Shirin M. Rai at E-IR

Omer Aijazi, Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir - @pennpress.bsky.social, June 2024 www.pennpress.org/978151282360...

Matthew Perkins-McVey, Intoxicated Ways of Knowing: The Untold Story of Intoxicants and the Biological Subject in Nineteenth-Century Germany - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, February 2026 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Roland Barthes’s Seminar on the Metaphor of the Labyrinth, and the presentations by Marcel Detienne, Gilles Deleuze and Pierre Rosenstiehl progressivegeographies.com/2026/02/01/r...

Nick Srnicek, Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI – @politybooks.bsky.social October 2025 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Roland Barthes’s Seminar on the Metaphor of the Labyrinth, and the presentations by Marcel Detienne, Gilles Deleuze and Pierre Rosenstiehl progressivegeographies.com/2026/02/01/r...

Sara B. Pritchard, Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution - University of Washington Press, July 2026 uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History - 24 June 2026 (registration and call for papers) www.hist.cam.ac.uk/ptih-graduat...

Roger Luckhurst, Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead - @princetonupress.bsky.social, October 2025 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Peter Garnsey, Rethinking Capital Punishment: The Pre-History of the Abolition of the Death Penalty - @universitypress.cambridge.org, April 2026 www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

Were Paul Virilio and Sylvère Lotringer's dialogues in Pure War ever published in French? They were certainly conducted in French, as a translator is credited for the English, but I can't see an obvious French source. Any help appreciated. www.semiotexte.com/pure-war

Were Paul Virilio and Sylvère Lotringer's dialogues in Pure War ever published in French? They were certainly conducted in French, as a translator is credited for the English, but I can't see an obvious French source. Any help appreciated. www.semiotexte.com/pure-war

@paullangley.bsky.social and @andrewleyshon.bsky.social, Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance - Zone, July 2026 press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...

Books received - Nietzsche, Eco, Todorov, Zurn, Serres, Wheatland, Jakobson progressivegeographies.com/2026/01/28/b...

István Hont, Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx: Culture, Needs and Property Rights - eds. Lasse S. Andersen, Béla Kapossy, Richard Whatmore, @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org, January 2026 www.cambridge.org/gb/universit... Thanks to @duncanbell.bsky.social for the link

@stephenlegg11.bsky.social, Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities - University of Georgia Press, March 2025 www.ugapress.org/978082036785... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Saumya Dadoo newbooksnetwork.com/spaces-of-an...

Roland Barthes and the Question of Territory – Animals, Spaces and Sound progressivegeographies.com/2026/01/25/r...

Roy Scranton, Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress - @stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2025 www.sup.org/books/litera... NDPR review by Arthur Obst ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/impa...

Peter Johnson, Philosophy for a Time of Crisis: Michel Serres and Climate Change - independently published, January 2026 michelserresclimatecrisis.com

Carl Schmitt's nomos of the earth and the notion of Großraum have been discussed recently, especially in the light of events in the Americas. I wrote about the limited use of his work and its political dangers back in 2010 - available open access www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/read...

Essential reading for historians of European political thought - Istvan Hont, Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx (2026) www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Roland Barthes and the Question of Territory – Animals, Spaces and Sound progressivegeographies.com/2026/01/25/r...

Isabel Feichtner, Susanne Heeg, Anne Klingenmeier, Gesine Langlotz and Katja Schubel eds., Stadt – Land – Boden: Verbindende Bodenpolitik zwischen Stadt und Land – transcript, August 2025, open access www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Chris O'Kane, Social Constitution and Fetishistic Social Domination in Marx, Lukács, Adorno, and Lefebvre - Brill, March 2026 brill.com/display/titl... Part of the Historical Materialism series, where books are published in paperback 12 months later with Haymarket.

Duncan Kelly, Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics – Oxford University Press, November 2025 global.oup.com/academic/pro... New Books Network discussion with Ryan Trip. newbooksnetwork.com/worlds-of-wa... thanks to JC for the link.

Christophe Bouton, Sur les traces du temps - Minuit, January 2026 thanks to @johnraimo.bsky.social for the link www.leseditionsdeminuit.fr/livre-Sur_le...

Anne O. Law, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants - Oxford University Press, March 2026 global.oup.com/academic/pro... @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @academic.oup.com

New Online 1st Book Review “Traces on the Ithacan shore: Reading Philo's Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination” by Matthew G. Hannah doi.org/10.1177/2043...

New Online 1st Book Review “Visuality and vocabulary in political geography” by Stuart Elden doi.org/10.1177/2043...

@gauthamrao.bsky.social, White Power: Policing American Slavery - University of North Carolina Press, May 2026 uncpress.org/978146969484...

Carl Schmitt's nomos of the earth and the notion of Großraum have been discussed recently, especially in the light of events in the Americas. I wrote about the limited use of his work and its political dangers back in 2010 - available open access www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/read...

@alexsharpe.bsky.social, We’re Nobody’s Children: David Bowie and Existentialism – Counterpress, February 2026 counterpress.org.uk/publications...

Mircea Eliade on alchemy; Marie-Madeleine Davy on mysticism and symbolism - progressivegeographies.com/2026/01/18/m...

Books received – Kristeva, Ryback, Sergent, Ruwet, Deleuze, Serres, Burrin progressivegeographies.com/2026/01/19/b...

The Political Technologies research cluster and Department of French will welcome Professor Didier Bigo to UCC on Tues 27 January. Join us in person or online! Links here: www.ucc.ie/en/casilac/r... @uccresearch.bsky.social @egeertsphd.bsky.social @maybenansi.bsky.social @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social

Mircea Eliade on alchemy; Marie-Madeleine Davy on mysticism and symbolism - progressivegeographies.com/2026/01/18/m...

On the 10th anniversary of David’s death, I’m announcing my latest book, out next month with Counterpress. Watch this space.

Andrea Bagnato, Terra Infecta: Disease and the Italian Landscape - Mack, January 2026 mackbooks.eu/products/ter... Diseased and Reclaimed Landscapes: An Interview with Andrea Bagnato at @jhideas.bsky.social blog www.jhiblog.org/2026/01/14/d...

William Whyte, The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood - @harvardpress.bsky.social, August 2026 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Je suis très heureuse d'annoncer que mon nouveau livre La finance aux extrêmes. Enquête sur le capitalisme autoritaire en France, sort le 22 janvier prochain aux éditions la Découverte. On y parle gestion d'actifs, transformations des manières d'accumuler et nouveaux modes de gouvernement.

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality - @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org, August 2025 www.cambridge.org/gb/universit... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Morteza Hajizadeh newbooksnetwork.com/from-frontie...

Alain Badiou, A Political Life: 1937-1985 – trans. Robin Mackay, @politybooks.bsky.social , November 2025 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Interesting piece about Adam Tooze and his work - and the staggering claim that Chartbook "brings him more income than his salary at Columbia". www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Martin Schulze Wessel, The Curse of Empire: Ukraine, Poland, and the Fatal Paths in Russian History - trans. Neil Solomon, @politybooks.bsky.social , November 2025 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...