In every academic book there is a secret second book hiding in the footnotes. Sometimes it is the first draft that had migrated there to escape the revisions. Sometimes it is the author's tortured secret rebuttal of their own claims, and sometimes it is the incipient form of the their next book.

Maria Antonietta Macciocchi - Althusser, Gramsci, Maoism, Fascism, and Pasolini progressivegeographies.com/2026/05/10/m...

Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and his World: A New Translation, trans. Sergeiy Sandler, Cambridge: @mitpress.bsky.social, October 2025 mitpress.mit.edu/978026255313...

Here's a round-up of book reviews recently published in Political Theory: Loren Goldman reviews Gary Wilder's Concrete Utopianism.

On 7 May 2026, Britain ran a PR experiment: Scottish Parliament: a Mixed-Member Proportional system Welsh Senedd: a (new) Low-Magnitude Party List system Same day, same political context, different outcomes. Which version of PR would be better for Westminster? 🧵

Your occasional gentle reminder that, on Bluesky, hitting Like on posts does not increase the number of people who'll see them. If you want to amplify a post here, you need to repost, not just Like, it. ps please repost this one!

Maria Antonietta Macciocchi - Althusser, Gramsci, Maoism, Fascism, and Pasolini progressivegeographies.com/2026/05/10/m...

Books received – Simon, Macciocchi, Spinney, Kristeva, Leray, Mallory progressivegeographies.com/2026/05/09/b...

Eyal Weizman, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide - Fern Press, May 2026 www.penguin.co.uk/books/463141... @forensicarchi.bsky.social

Peter Schöttler, Marc Bloch, une biographie intellectuelle - Gallimard, May 2026 www.gallimard.fr/catalogue/ma...

Laurie Parsons, Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse - @lsepress.bsky.socialRGS-IBG series, May 2026 (print and open access) press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3...

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... Steven Lukes, The Diversity of Morals, Princeton University Press, 2025

Lucien Gerschel bibliography (and other research resources) progressivegeographies.com/2026/05/05/l...

For a brief overview of the release of the audio recordings, see also the blog post by @stuartelden.bsky.social: progressivegeographies.com/2026/04/02/f...

I’m a little late to the party, but Foucault’s 1972 Buffalo lectures, which I wrote about in the Fall 2025 issue of Foucault Studies, are now available online! digital.lib.buffalo.edu/items/browse...

David Womersley, Thinking Through Shakespeare - @princetonupress.bsky.social, March 2026 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Morteza Hajizadeh newbooksnetwork.com/thinking-thr...

Lucien Gerschel bibliography (and other research resources) progressivegeographies.com/2026/05/05/l...

Gabriella Soto, Border Afterlives: Migrant Deaths, Forensic Investigations, and the Politics of Haunting - University of Arizona Press, March 2026 uapress.arizona.edu/book/border-...

Tel Quel goes to China: Sollers, Kristeva, Barthes, Pleynet, Wahl and the Cultural Revolution progressivegeographies.com/2026/05/03/t...

Mattie Fitch, The People, the Workers, and the Citizens: Antifascist Cultures and the Popular Front in France, 1934–1939 – @routledgebooks.bsky.social, 2026 www.routledge.com/The-People-t... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Keith Rathbone newbooksnetwork.com/the-people-t...

Tel Quel goes to China: Sollers, Kristeva, Barthes, Pleynet, Wahl and the Cultural Revolution progressivegeographies.com/2026/05/03/t...

(Appel à contributions) Canguilhem et les erreurs du vivant histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/05/cang... #histphilo

et évidemment le centenaire de la naissance de Foucault va être l'occasion pour pas mal d'événements www.college-de-france.fr/fr/foucault2...

Foucault Studies, Issue 39, Spring 2026 (all open access) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56718

Stephen C. E. Hopkins, Translating Hell: Vernacular Theology and Apocrypha in the Medieval North Sea – @manchesterup.bsky.social, May 2026 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175038/ @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social

Ben Garlick and Dubravka Sekulic eds. Geography with John Berger: Questions of Space and Practice - Bloomsbury, June 2026 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/geography... @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social

Laurence Hemming and Aaron Turner eds. Heidegger and Parmenides - @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social, April 2026 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/heidegger... (hardback and expensive e-book only at present)

Felix Berenskötter ed. Concepts in International Relations: A New Introduction - Sage, November 2025 uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/co...

Melissa Pawelski, Languages of Punishment: Translating Foucault into English and German (2025) Melissa Pawelski, Languages of Punishment: Translating Foucault into English and German, Research Monographs in French Studies, 71 (Legenda, 2025) The works of French philosopher Michel Foucault…

A.J.A. Woods, The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy:Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West - @versobooks.bsky.social, April 2026 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

The Tragic Death of Lucien Gerschel and his Posthumous Text on the Finnish Sampo progressivegeographies.com/2026/04/26/t...

Louise Ridden, Nonviolent Encounters: Unarmed Civilian Protection through Bodies, Spaces and Times – @edinburghup.bsky.social, April 2026 (print and open access) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nonviol...

The Tragic Death of Lucien Gerschel and his Posthumous Text on the Finnish Sampo progressivegeographies.com/2026/04/26/t...

Peter Sloterdijk, The Continent Without Qualities: Bookmarks in the Book of Europe, trans. Robert Hughes, Cambridge: @politybooks.bsky.social, 2026 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Shakespeare and Interwar British Philosophy (1918-1939) – 27 June 2026, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton, UK - tickets available now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shakespear...

The School of Politics and International Relations is hiring an Assistant Professor (fixed-term, 3 years) in European Comparative Politics. Deadline: 19 May 2026 Job ad and details: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport... @ucdpolitics.bsky.social

Nicole M. Rizzuto, Arresting Ecologies: Global Literature across Air, Land, and Sea, 1926–2014 - @academic.oup.com Oxford University Press, June 2026 global.oup.com/academic/pro... Expensive hardback only at present.

Sonia Lavaert, Democratic Thought from Machiavelli to Spinoza: Freedom, Equality, Multitude - trans. Albert Gootjes, @edinburghup.bsky.social, October 2024 - now available in paperback April 2026 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-democra...

Sandrine Bergès, No Place Like Home: Women Philosophers' Struggles with Domesticity - @academic.oup.com Oxford University Press, June 2026 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Pierre Déléage, Inventing Writing: Prophets, Shamans, and the Transmission of Ritual Discourse in North American Indigenous Cultures, 1600–1900 - trans. Victoria Bergstrom and Matthew H. Evans, HAU, March 2026 print - press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... and open access haubooks.org/deleage-inve...

Haig Patapan, The Modern Tyrant: Authoritarian Leadership in Theory and Practice – @edinburghup.bsky.social, March 2026 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-mod...

Bassam Sidiki, Parasitic Empires: Infection, Insularity, Inter-Imperiality, 1880-2022 - The University of North Carolina Press, November 2026 uncpress.org/978146969725...

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 32 – trying to improve a draft progressivegeographies.com/2026/04/20/i...

Julia Kristeva’s portrait of Émile Benveniste in The Samurai progressivegeographies.com/2026/04/19/j...

Blogging is painful but essential for preserving my work beyond my lifetime. I discuss the steps I take, from metadata to digital preservation, and why it's worth it. https://eve.gd/2026/04/19/the-necessary-pain-involved-in-blogging-if-you-want-your-work-to-be-preserved-beyond-your-lifespan/

Julia Kristeva’s portrait of Émile Benveniste in The Samurai progressivegeographies.com/2026/04/19/j...

Christian Henderson, Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf States in the Global Food System – @universitypress.cambridge.org, February 2026 www.cambridge.org/core/books/m... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Alec Fiorini – thanks to dmf for the link newbooksnetwork.com/monarchies-o...

As the crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop icon Newcastle for 40 years gets closer to the end I’m making the bold move of calling on all the academics I sort of vaguely know and also those I don’t to share the link for our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

These book club/festival scams are getting worse. I've just received an invitation addressed to 'Henri Lefebvre', asking if he'd like to speak about his book Rhythmanalysis. Tempted to reply: "I’ve been dead for thirty-five years. Will that be a problem?"

Books received - Nizan, Macciocchi, Nussbaum, Nail, Hathaway, Watkins, Stilz, Joseph progressivegeographies.com/2026/04/17/b...