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 … Continue reading →

As part of my research on Georges Dumézil and Émile Benveniste, I’ve been tracing their quite different experiences in the Second World War. Both lost their teaching positions under Vichy, although for very different reasons – Dumézil because he had once … Continue reading →

Scott B. Ritner, Revolutionary Pessimism: Simone Weil’s Antifascist Politics – Stanford University Press, November 2026 Scott B. Ritner argues that the antifascist philosopher and mystic Simone Weil’s critical writings about the social crises of the mid-twentieth century, especially fascism, are … Continue reading →

Didier Fassin, Ainsi pensait Michel Foucault: Enquête sur une philosophie pour notre temps – La Découverte, September 2026 Après Leçons de ténèbres, le nouveau cours de Didier Fassin au Collège de France. À l’occasion du centenaire de la naissance de Michel … Continue reading →

Chad Wellmon, After the University: Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work – Johns Hopkins University Press, June 2026 When the pursuit of knowledge is eclipsed by money and power, what remains of higher learning? What is a university … Continue reading →

Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Kristin Anabel Eggeling, The Brussels Bubble: Inside the European Union in the Digital Age – Cambridge University Press, June 2026

Salvador Santino Regilme ed., Statelessness and Citizenship Revocation in Europe: Rethinking Politics, Law, Security, and Human Rights – De Gruyter Brlll, July 2026

Andrew McKenzie-McHarg, The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory – Princeton University Press, June/August 2026 Will be interesting to read this alongside Nicolas Guilhot, Conspiracy: The History of a Political Obsession – Harvard University Press, October 2026. Truthers, birthers, flat-Earthers, the deep state, … Continue reading →

Jacques Derrida, La Chose Séminaire (1975-1977) Suivi de la 6e séance de Donner le temps II – ed. Philippe Lynes, Seuil, May 2026 Entre 1975 et 1977, Jacques Derrida s’engage dans un séminaire énigmatique, voire obscur au premier abord, intitulé La Chose. Ce … Continue reading →

Anne O. Law, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants – Oxford University Press, March 2026 I’ve shared news of the book before, now with a New Books network discussion with Lilly Goren Since the … Continue reading →

Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa – new edition, foreword by Angela Davis, Verso, September 2026 An exemplary work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious masterwork of political economy, … Continue reading →

There was a lot I learned, and much I liked, about Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm’s recently published The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History (University of Chicago Press, 2026). There was also a great deal which has … Continue reading →

Giacomo Clemente, Knowledge, Ideology, Reproduction: The Scholastic Apparatus in Louis Althusser and the Althusserian School – trans. Fabio Gironi, Haymarket Books, May 2026 The first book-length examination of the theses developed by Louis Althusser and his collaborators on the processes of class-based … Continue reading →

Isabel Karremann ed. Shakespeare / Space: Contemporary Readings in Spatiality, Culture and Drama – Bloomsbury, 2024, paperback December 2026 Shakespeare / Space explores new approaches to the enactment of ‘space’ in and through Shakespeare’s plays, as well as to the material, cognitive and … Continue reading →

Marcel Mariën, Theory of Immediate World Revolution: A Handbook for the Avant-Garde – ed. Anna O’Meara, trans. Nadège Lejeune, Anna O’Meara and Ian Thompson, Verso, September 2026 The Afterword to the German edition from 1989 is on the Verso site. A blueprint for … Continue reading →

Derek Hook and Sinan Richards eds. Fanon and Lacan: Decolonial Psychoanalysis – Routledge, October 2026 Fanon and Lacan: Decolonial Psychoanalysis explores the influence of psychoanalysis on Frantz Fanon’s thought and delves into Fanon’s innovative use of psychoanalysis as a way of … Continue reading →

Roger D. Woodard ed. The Cambridge World History of Mythology and Mythography – Cambridge University Press, two volumes, February 2027: volume 1; volume 2 The Cambridge History of Mythology and Mythography offers a comprehensive overview of the history, theory, and … Continue reading →

Susan Pickford, Translating Books for Publication – Routledge, September 2026 Translating Books for Publication offers readers an introductory guide to translating for the publishing sector, designed for aspiring translators and translation-adjacent professionals entering the field. It addresses the critical gap in … Continue reading →

The importance of Jean de Menasce to the life of Émile Benveniste has long been known. A former student of Benveniste in his Iranian courses at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Menasce later taught at the University of Fribourg, … Continue reading →

Georg Glaze, Amaël Cattaruzza, Finn Dammann, and Frédérick Douzet eds. The Elgar Companion to the Geopolitics of Digital Sovereignty: Contested Networks, Territories and Self-determination – Edward Elgar, 2026 (print and open access) This comprehensive Companion explores the rise of digital sovereignty … Continue reading →

Steven Press, Europe’s Little Anarchy: The Rise and Fall of Neutral Moresnet – Cornell University Press, August 2026 Europe’s Little Anarchy uncovers the history of Neutral Moresnet: a once-forgotten space without borders, nationalism, or a recognized government. Between 1815 and 1919, this … Continue reading →

James Kneale, Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918 – Bloomsbury, November 2025 This book explains how the rise of temperance life assurance affected ideas surrounding the dangers of drinking and abstinence between 1840 and 1918. James … Continue reading →

Don Thomas Deere, The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space – Duke University Press, January 2026 I’ve shared news of the book before, there is now a New Books Network discussion with Morteza Hajizadeh – thanks to dmf … Continue reading →

Miriam Posner, Seeing Like a Supply Chain: The Hidden Life of Logistics – Yale University Press, October 2026 A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology … Continue reading →

Alberto Toscano, Communism in Philosophy: Essays on Alain Badiou and Toni Negri – Brill, May 2025; paperback Haymarket June 2026 A new collection of essays on two of the most important communist philosophers of our time: Alain Badiou and Toni … Continue reading →

Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani (eds.), The Biopolitical Animal – Edinburgh University Press, November 2024; paperback May 2026 Explores the intersection of biopolitics and the animal question, pushing the debate in new directions The two issues around which this collection revolves are … Continue reading →

João Pina-Cabral, Metapersons: Transcendence and Life – Hau, 2026 Print distributed by University of Chicago Press; available open access Metapersons begins from a simple yet striking observation: across the world, people live in the company of divinities, ancestors, spirits, sacred mountains, … Continue reading →

Jennifer Stob, The Situationist International and the Social Space of Film: With and Against Cinema – Routledge, June 2026 This book explores the Situationist International’s paradoxical relationship with cinema from 1957 to 1972. The SI was a postwar avant-garde that … Continue reading →

Julia Kristeva often references Fyodor Dostoyevsky in her work. She read him while growing up in Bulgaria, and continued after her move to France. She recalls her initial reading was against her father’s directive. As well as Dostoyevsky’s famous novels, … Continue reading →

Jean Wahl, The Idea of the Instant in Descartes’s Philosophy – ed. and trans. Alan D. Schrift, Edinburgh University Press, May 2026