New Books in Critical Theory
Episodes
James Q. Whitman, "Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands: The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today we think of land as the paradigmatic example of property, while in the past, the paradigmatic example was often a slave. In this seminal work...
Alana Lentin, "The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy" (Pluto Books, 2025)
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The New Racial Regime begins by interrogating the backlash against critical race theory and explains how the so-called war on woke can be used agains...
Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney eds., "Media Rurality" (Duke UP, 2026)
03 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Media Rurality (Duke UP, 2026), edited by Darin Barney and Patrick Brodie, investigates the centrality of rural places and people within the media ...
D. Vance Smith, "Atlas’s Bones: The African Foundations of Europe" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
02 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A major new look at Africa’s influence on European culture and how colonization remade Africa in the image of a medieval Europe.Virgil. Chaucer. ...
Jason R. Young, "The Mask of Memory: White Racial Fantasy After the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2026)
02 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the early twentieth century, a group of white writers, artists, and performers from the cultural hub of Charleston, South Carolina, created and cur...
Mostafa Hussein, "Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arabo-Islamic Culture in Late Ottoman and British Palestine" (Princeton UP, 2025)
01 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the decades before the establishment of a Jewish state in 1948, native and immigrant Jews in Palestine mediated between Jewish and Arab cultures wh...
Mapping Out Food and Philosophy
01 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode introduces a special issue on food and philosophy. Robert T. Valgenti, of Gastronomica’s Editorial Collective, talks with Andrea Borgh...
Francisco Martínez, "The Future of Hiding: Secrecy, Infrastructure, and Ecological Memory in Estonia's Siberia" (Cornell UP, 2025)
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How can lives and things that are rendered invisible be crucial to identity, politics, and the future? Drawing on experimental ethnographic research i...
Rugged Individualism
27 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this special student edition of High Theory, Andrew Bennett, Jo Hoffman, Kai North, and Ally Sullivan tell us about Rugged Individualism, a concept...
Sarah Jaffe, "From the Ashes: Grief and Transformation in a World on Fire" (Bold Type Books, 2024)
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the author of Work Won't Love You Back, a stirring examination of how collective grief can ignite powerful change. Our era is one of significant ...
169* Hannah Arendt on Oases (JP)
18 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Our Recall This Buck series began by speaking with Christine Desan of Harvard Law School about how key ideas—and the actual currency, physical coins...
Manuel Barcia, "Pirate Imperialism: Trade, Abolition, and Global Suppression of Maritime Raiding, 1825–1870" (Yale UP, 2026)
18 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, imperial powers around the world came into direct confrontation with local resistance in the form of ...
Audrey Borowski, "Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant" (Princeton UP, 2026)
17 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Described by Voltaire as “perhaps a man of the most universal learning in Europe,” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) is often portrayed as a...
Amanda Anderson and Simon During, "Humanities Theory" (Oxford UP, 2026)
17 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Humanities Theory (Oxford UP, 2026) pioneers a new topic: the theory of the humanities. It is an urgent topic right now because the humanities face ...
Alisa Kessel, "Rape Fantasies: Rape Culture and the Persistence of Sexual Violence" (Oxford UP, 2025)
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Political theorist Alisa Kessel (University of Puget Sound) has an important and impressive new book, Rape Fantasies: Rape Culture and the Persistence...
Devika Dutt et al., "Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction" (Polity Press, 2025)
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Decolonization has long been debated across the social sciences, but the economics discipline has so far avoided such critical engagement. Decolonizi...
Donald Sassoon, "Revolutions: A New History" (Verso Books, 2025)
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Revolutions: A New History (Verso Books, 2025) is a sparkling account of political upheaval and the power of history. We think of revolutions in ter...
Lisa Siraganian, "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations, and Robots" (Verso, 2026)
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last twenty-five years, the concept of per-sonhood has become central to many contentious debates. Corporations have won free speech protecti...
Voices from a Century of Struggle: Writings of the Jim Crow Era
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Tuesday, April 7, 2026—Confronting disenfranchisement, legal segregation, and terrorist violence in the aftermath of the Civil War, Black Americans ...
Decolonizing the Novum
13 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of High Theory, Zac Zimmer talks to Kim about Decolonizing the Novum. The novum is a concept developed by Darko Suvin that names the n...
Jasper Bernes, "The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising" (Verso Books, 2025)
12 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How might a twenty-first-century revolution against class society succeed? Communism comes from the future, but its hopes haunt our past. Reading rev...
Rishi Rajpopat, "Panini's Perfect Rule: A Modern Solution to an Ancient Problem in Sanskrit Grammar" (Harvard UP, 2025)
09 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Panini’s Ashtadyayi is one of the most famous works in Sanskrit, a so-called “linguistic machine” that, through its 4,000 words, allows someone ...
Michaela Hulstyn, "Unselfing: Global French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Altered states of consciousness – including experiences of deprivation, pain, hallucination, fear, desire, alienation, and spiritual transcendence –...
Leslie Barnes, "Sex Work in Southeast Asia: Scenes of Ambivalence in Literature and Film" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Sex Work in Southeast Asia: Scenes of Ambivalence in Literature and Film (Edinburgh UP, 2025), Leslie Barnes examines the ambivalences that mar...
Andrew Lister, "Justice and Reciprocity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
05 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Lister's Justice and Reciprocity (Oxford University Press, 2024) examines the place of reciprocity in egalitarianism, focusing on John Rawls...
Eivind Røssaak, "The Cory Arcangel Hack: Digital Culture and Aesthetic Practice" (MIT Press, 2025)
04 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The first in-depth exploration of the work of artist Cory Arcangel, a pioneer of DIY-new media art whose influential “hacks” subvert the confines ...
Amir Saemi, "Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond: A New Problem of Evil" (Oxford UP, 2024)
04 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Amir Saemi’s exciting book Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond: A New Problem of Evil (Oxford UP, 2024) is a fascinating and dee...
Daniel Rachel, "This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika, and the Third Reich" (Akashic Books, 2026)
04 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last seven decades, some of rock 'n' roll's most celebrated figureheads have flirted with the imagery and theater of the Third Reich. From Ke...
Pre-Reading
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of High Theory, Milan Terlunen talks to Kim about Pre-Reading. There are many books we will never read and films we will never watch, ...
Mark Pennington, "Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2025)
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom by Mark Pennington This highly original and innovative book is the first to co...
Ainehi Edoro, "Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think" (Columbia UP, 2026)
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Forests in fiction are often understood simply as settings, symbols, or remnants of a premodern past. Yet many African novelists have turned to the fo...
Emmanuel Ofuasia, "Ìwà: the Process-Relational Dimension to African Metaphysics" (Springer, 2024)
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Correction: In the interview, the host mistakenly mentioned that Prof. Ofuasia is teaching the University of Pretoria. In reality, Prof Ofuasia is c...
Thomas Hegghammer and Diego Gambetta eds., "Fight, Flight, Mimic: Identity Mimicry in Conflict" (Oxford UP, 2024)
28 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Time spent and words spent—what does each signal? Deceptive mimicry—the manipulation of individual or group identity—includes passing off as a ...
The Criminal Record Complex: Risk, Race, and the Struggle for Work in America
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most employers in the United States routinely conduct criminal background checks on job applicants, weeding out those with criminal convictions—a...
Hsuan L Hsu, "Olfactory Worldmaking" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Smell is a vital, if underappreciated, medium through which we inhabit and imagine the world. In Olfactory Worldmaking (University of Minnesota Pres...
Prolepsis
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of High Theory, Gloria Fisk talks to Kim about Prolepsis. Defined by Gerard Genette in the 1970s, prolepsis is a flash forward, the op...
David Bather Woods, "Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist by David Bather Woods An engaging biography of one of the most influe...
Philip C. Almond, "Noah and the Flood in Western Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
21 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In a world beset by climatic emergencies, the continuing resonance of the flood story is perhaps easy to understand. Whether in the tortured alpha mal...
Becca Voelcker, "Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction" (U California Press, 2025)
21 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction considers nonfiction filmmakers and film collectives whose work advances an understanding of land as a locus of s...
Piergiorgio Di Giminiani et al. eds., "The Futures of Reparations in Latin America: Imagination, Translation, and Belonging" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last thirty years, Latin America has undergone an unprecedented wave of reparations targeting victims of political violence during military r...
Paul Kohlbry, "Plots and Deeds: Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for Land Justice in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2026)
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The emancipatory potential and limits of land justice, when land is at once home, property, territory, and homeland. Peasant farming was once an inte...
Miriam Ticktin, "Against Innocence: Undoing and Remaking the World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this timely and bold book, Against Innocence: Undoing and Remaking the World (U Chicago Press, 2025), Miriam Ticktin explores how a concept that...
H. S. Jones, "Liberal Worlds: James Bryce and the Democratic Intellect" (Princeton UP, 2025)
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
James Bryce (1838–1922) was a leading figure in Britain’s Liberal Party and a distinguished historian, a versatile scholar-politician who moved se...
Alec Ryrie, "The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It" (Reaktion, 2025)
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Examining everything from popular novels to politics, an investigation of persistent fascination with Nazis—and where it might take us. We live in ...
Susannah B. Mintz, "Hypochondria: In Sickness and in Story" (Reaktion, 2026)
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hypochondria: In Sickness and in Story (Reaktion, 2026) proposes a bold reimagining of a frequently dismissed condition. Dr. Susannah B. Mintz refram...
Yanshuo Zhang, "Creative Belonging: The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
14 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
China is a multicultural country home to fifty-five ethnic minority groups, yet due to linguistic and cultural barriers many of these groups remain un...
Tristan J. Rogers, "Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction" (Routledge, 2025)
14 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction (Routledge, 2025), Tristan J. Rogers argues that philosophical conservati...
Wendy Brown, "States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2025)
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A sympathetic critique that attempts to free Left politics from its own snares, States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (Princeton Un...
What’s on Her Mind: The Mental Workload of Family Life
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Mothers and fathers use their time differently, with women spending roughly twice as many hours on family labor as men. But what about the gendered di...
Sari Hanafi, "Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In an era of deepening polarization, Sari Hanafi examines how social scientists often reproduce the very injustices they seek to challenge, taking ent...
Jacob Stegenga, "Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry (University of Chicago Press, 2026), philosopher Jacob Stegenga breaks with the most domina...
Stephen Lee Naish, "Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency" (Lever Press, 2026)
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Movies open a window into our collective soul. In Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency (Lever Press, 2026), Stephen Lee Naish guides us thr...
The Cave and the Coalition: Philosophy, Populism, and the MAGA New Right
07 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI acting director Eli Karetny sits down with political theorist Laura Field to trace the intellectual cur...
Sean Parson, "Punk Anarchism: An Anti-Politics of Resistance" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
07 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Punk Anarchism: An Anti-Politics of Resistance (Bloomsbury, 2026) is a radical critique of contemporary politics, offering an alternative framewo...
Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppan eds., "Autotheories" (MIT Press, 2025)
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A transdisciplinary array of authors offering a new frame of reference for autotheory and its genre-bending synthesis of autobiography and critical th...
Damion Searls, "The Philosophy of Translation" (Yale UP, 2024)
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Philosophy of Translation (Yale UP, 2024) is a fresh, approachable, and convincing account of what translation really is and what translators act...
David L. Eng, "Reparations and the Human" (Duke UP, 2025)
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Holocaust and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki invoked in graphic terms the specter of total human destruction. In response, a new in...
Catherine Elgin, "Epistemic Ecology" (MIT Press, 2025)
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Humans are highly inquisitive, yet fallible and cognitively limited. How can we improve our epistemic lot despite our limitations? In Epistemic Ecolo...
Ailbhe Kenny, "Music Refuge: Living Asylum through Music" (Oxford UP, Press 2025)
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How can music change people’s lives? In Music Refuge: Living Asylum Through Music (Oxford UP, Press 2025) Ailbhe Kenny, an Associate Professo...
Sophie Salvo, "Articulating Difference: Sex and Language in the German Nineteenth Century"(U Chicago Press, 2024)
01 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing on a wide range of texts, from understudied ethnographic and scientific works to canonical literature and philosophy, Sophie Salvo uncovers th...
Hanna Pickard, "What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing But Cocaine?: A Philosophy of Addiction" (Princeton UP, 2026)
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Hanna Pickard has written a revolutionary new paradigm for understanding addiction. Why do people with addiction use drugs self-destructively?...
Martin Heidegger, "Being and Time: An Annotated Translation" (Yale UP, 2026)
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A full century ago, a young and relatively unknown philosophy instructor in a small town in Germany would publish a book that would be swiftly picked ...
Jessica Martin, "Feminisms and Domesticity in Times of Crisis: The Rise of the Austerity Celebrity" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
21 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Is the home still a site for feminist resistance? In Feminisms and Domesticity in Times of Crisis: The Rise of the Austerity Celebrity Jessica Marti...
Michelle Jackson, "The Division of Rationalized Labor" (Harvard UP, 2025)
21 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How have jobs changed in the last 150 years? In The Division of Rationalized Labor (Harvard UP, 2025) Michelle Jackson, an Associate Profess...
Jie-Hyun Lim, "Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age" (Columbia UP, 2025)
21 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nationalism today depends on the perception of victimhood. The historical memory of past suffering endows nationalist movements with political legitim...
Eray Çayli, "Earthmoving: Extractivism, War, and Visuality in Northern Kurdistan" (U Texas Press, 2025)
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Extractivism—exploiting the earth for resources—has long driven racial capitalism and colonialism. And yet, how does extractivism operate in a wor...
Denys Gorbach, "The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class: Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Industrial workers in Ukraine have a complex political lifeworld because their political action aimed at bringing radical social change coexists with ...
John Drabinski, "So Unimaginable a Price: Baldwin and the Black Atlantic" (Northwestern UP, 2025)
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What happens if we turn to James Baldwin, not just for the amazing quotations and excellent photos, but as a critical theorist? What if we read his no...
Feminism and Critical Hindu Studies with Shreena Gandhi, Harshita Kamath, Sailaja Krishnamurt, and Shana Sippy
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features a conversation with the founding members of the Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective, also known as the Auntylectuals. We ...
Carl Death, "African Climate Futures" (Oxford UP, 2025)
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is brought to you by the BISA Environment and Climate Politics Working Group. African Climate Futures (Oxford UP, 2025) shows how cli...
Agustín Santella and Adrián Piva, "Marxism, Social Movements and Collective Action" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Marxists have an obvious interest in understanding social movements. Less obvious, even with the voluminous theoretical archives at hand, is how to pu...
Sourit Bhattacharya, "Postcolonialism Now: Literature, Reading, Decolonising" (Orient BlackSwan, 2024)
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Postcolonialism Now: Literature, Reading, Decolonising (Orient BlackSwan, 2024) by Sourit Bhattacharya introduces a new method of decolonial read...
Laura K. Field, "Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right" (Princeton UP, 2025)
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Political Theorist Laura Field has written an insightful and detailed exploration of the people and the ideas that have shaped the second Trump Admini...
Olivier Esteves, "France, You Love It but Leave It: The Silent Flight of French Muslims" (Polity, 2025)
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Their names are Mohamed, Samira, sometimes Matthieu or Sophie. They were born and bred in France and are highly qualified, but they have decided to go...
Patricia Daley and Ian Klinke, "Human Geography: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2025)
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Human geography offers answers to some of the most important challenges of our time. To understand contemporary struggles over global economic inequal...
Kevin Hart, "Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation (U Chicago Press, 2023), Kevin Hart develops a new hermeneutics of contemplation through a med...
Lisa Min et al. eds., "Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State" (punctum books, 2024)
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to the political, acts of redaction, erasure, and blacking out sit in awkward tension with the myth of transparent governance, borderles...
Samuel Holley-Kline, "In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico" (U Nebraska Press, 2025)
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Located in the Papantla municipality of the Mexican state of Veracruz, El Tajín is a UNESCO World Heritage site but a lesser-known tourist destinatio...
Jacqueline Couti and Anny Dominique Curtius, "Women, Theory, Praxis, and Performativities: Transoceanic Entanglements in Francophone Settings" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Women, Theory, Praxis, and Performativities: Transoceanic Entanglements in Francophone Settings (Liverpool UP, 2025) bridges the gap between the Car...
Itohan I. Osayimwese, "Africa's Buildings: Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage" (Princeton UP, 2025)
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Between the nineteenth century and today, colonial officials, collectors, and anthropologists dismembered African buildings and dispersed their parts ...
Gina Schouten, "The Anatomy of Justice" (Oxford UP, 2024)
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
“Liberal egalitarianism” refers to a family of political views that are “liberal” in taking individual rights to be of premier importance and ...
Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIveright, 2023)
31 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the United States, the stoicism and importance of the “working class” is part of the national myth. The term is often used to conjure the contr...
Justin L. Mann, "Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculation" (Duke UP, 2026)
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculation (Duke UP, 2026) takes Black speculative fiction as a central archive for under...
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flour...
Brahim El Guabli, "Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences" (U California Press, 2025)
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences (U California Press, 2025) traces the cultural and intellectual histories t...
Duy Lap Nguyen, "Walter Benjamin and the Critique of Political Economy: A New Historical Materialism" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Walter Benjamin was a German-Jewish intellectual and philosopher associated with the Frankfurt School, who tragically died at 48 years old in 1940 as ...
Nick Romeo, "The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
24 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Winners Take All meets Nickel and Dimed: a provocative debunking of accepted wisdom, providing the pathway to a sustainable, survivable economy. Con...
Daisy Fancourt, "Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives" (Cornerstone Press, 2026)
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Is culture good for you? In Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives (Cornerstone Press, 2026) Daisy Fancourt, a Professor of Psychobiolog...
Michelle Henning, "A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire (U Chicago Press, 2026), Professor Michelle Henning presents an environmental history...
Robert Dorschel, "The Social Codes of Tech Workers: Class Identity in Digital Capitalism" (MIT Press, 2025)
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Who are the people staffing the digital economy? In The Social Codes of Tech Workers: Class Identity in Digital Capitalism (MIT Press, 2025) Rob...
Laurie Parsons, "Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate Breakdown" (Manchester UP, 2023)
18 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is devastating the planet, and globalisation is hiding it. Laurie Parsons's book Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate...
Ryan Donovan, "Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity" (Oxford UP, 2023)
18 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Broadway has body issues. What is a Broadway Body? Broadway has long preserved the ideology of the "Broadway Body": the hyper-fit, exceptionally able,...
Daniel Wyche, "The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other: From Spiritual Exercises to Political Transformation" (Columbia UP, 2025)
17 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other: From Spiritual Exercises to Political Transformation (Columbia UP, 2025), Daniel Wyche examines t...
Mark Christian Thompson, "Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
17 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Christian Thompson's book, Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory (University of Chicago Press, 2022) examines the changin...
Di Wu et. al, eds., "China As Context: Anthropology, Post-globalisation and the Neglect of China" (Manchester UP, 2025)
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A provocative collaborative project, China as Context challenges the marginalization of Chinese-grounded ideas in academia, arguing that neglecting ...
Helen Graham, "Deconstituting Museums: Participation’s Affective Work" (UCL Press, 2024)
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What is the future of museums? In Deconstituting Museums: Participation’s Affective Work Helen Graham, an Associate Professor in School of Fine ...
Kerry Gottlich, "From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How did modern territoriality emerge and what are its consequences? From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality...
Angie Hobbs, "Why Plato Matters Now" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Does Plato matter? An ancient philosopher whose work has inspired and informed countless thinkers and poets across the centuries, his ideas are no lon...
Mercedes Valmisa, "All Things Act" (Oxford UP, 2025)
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
All Things Act explores the collective character of action to expand the ways we think about agency. First, it resists viewing agency as a capacity, ...
Dagmar Herzog, "The New Fascist Body" (Wirklichkeit Books, 2025)
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The success of new far-right movements cannot be explained by fear or rage alone – the pleasures of aggression and violence are just as essential. A...