Grafton Tanner, Foreverism, Polity, 2023 Description What do cinematic “universes,” cloud archiving, and voice cloning have in common? They’re in the business of foreverizing – the process of revitalizing things that have degraded, failed, or disappeared so that they can remain active in the present. To foreverize something is to reanimate it, to enclose and …
Geoghegan, Bernard Dionysius. Code: From Information Theory to French Theory. Duke University Press, 2023. In Code Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reconstructs how Progressive Era technocracy as well as crises of industrial democracy and colonialism shaped early accounts of cybernetics and digital media by theorists including Norbert Wiener, Warren Weaver, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roman …
Fehr, Burkhard, and Panagiotis Roilos, eds. Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual. Studies Presented to Demetrios Yatromanolakis (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2024) doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004679740 The studies included in Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual. Studies Presented to Demetrios Yatromanolakis , a pioneering scholar— shed new light on a variety of areas: the encounters of ancient Greece with other societies and cultures …
Stuart Blaney, Equality and Freedom in Rancière and Foucault, Bloomsbury, 2024 Description Responding to the increasing need for new and peaceful forms of emancipation, Stuart Blaney offers a unique solution in the synergy between two pioneering strands of continental philosophy: Michel Foucault’s ideas on freedom and Jacques Ranciere’s ideas on equality. Building a dialogue between …
Matteo Vagelli, Reconsidering Historical Epistemology. French and Anglophone Styles in History and Philosophy of Science, Springer, 2024 -Offers a comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of historical epistemology -The first book to address both French and Anglophone twentieth-century attempts to bring together history and philosophy of science -Makes Continental conceptual resources available to Anglophone …
Jeremy Tambling, The Death Penalty in Dickens and Derrida. The Last Sentence of the Law, Bloomsbury, 2023 Description In the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens backed the cause of abolition of the death penalty and wrote comprehensively about it, in public letters and in his novels. At the end of the twentieth century, Jacques Derrida ran …
Anahit Behrooz, Mapping Middle-earth. Environmental and Political Narratives in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Cartographies. Bloomsbury, 2024 Description In this cutting-edge study of Tolkien’s most critically neglected maps, Anahit Behrooz examines how cartography has traditionally been bound up in facilitating power. Far more than just illustrations to aid understanding of the story, Tolkien’s corpus of maps …
Mad Max and Philosophy: Thinking Through the Wasteland David Koepsell (Editor), Matthew P. Meyer (Editor), William Irwin (Series Editor) Description Explore the philosophy at the core of the apocalyptic future of Mad Max Beneath the stylized violence and thrilling car crashes, the Mad Max films consider universal questions about the nature of human life, order …
Thomas Nail, The Philosophy of Movement. An Introduction, University of Minnesota Press, 2024 Foreword by Daniel W. Smith Why are city dwellers worldwide walking on average ten percent faster than they were a decade ago? Why are newcomer immigrant groups so often maligned when migration has always constituted civilization? To analyze and understand the depth …
Martin Stokes, Music and Citizenship, Oxford University Press, 2023 Critical citizenship practices and the language of today’s populism have never been more sharply opposed. Today’s insistent efforts to anchor citizenship narratives in national belonging now confront a variety of ‘flexible’ or ‘differentiated’ citizenships – plural, performative, and decentered practices of rights claiming mutually defining ‘the …
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