Yes! "Melinda Cooper reads the neoliberal turn in public finance as a counterrevolutionary project—a trauma response to the turmoil of the late 1960s and early 1970s.": press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

I'm inordinately proud of this book, which took a lot of hard work. It's properly interdisciplinary, properly empirical, properly theoretical, and properly historical. Great chapters from the project team and so many insights throughout. (Plus the endorsements are so lovely!)

⚫ L’historien Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie est mort Professeur au Collège de France, administrateur général de la Bibliothèque nationale, historien de l’époque moderne et du climat, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie s’est éteint à l’âge de 94 ans. lemonde.fr/disparitions/a…

The news will be all about Galloway today - that’s why the government published these 13 immigration inspection reports in one go yesterday, to bury them. But the scale & degree of chaos, mismanagement, dereliction of duty & incompetence they reveal is astounding, truly #r4today

Important judgment from the Divisional Court The Government's attempt to define "serious disruption" in the parts of the Public Order Act 1986 which give police powers to impose restrictions on processions and assemblies was unlawful because: (a) The regulations which attempted

Yes indeed Agent Swarm Alex Leone the new edition of Foucault's unpublished lectures and writings on Nietzsche Éditions du Seuil is now available in French in bookstores all over France. Pub site: seuil.com/ouvrage/nietzs…. Here it is on front table & window at the Librairie Vrin...

Collège de France is placing online all existing audio recordings of Foucault's annual lectures on "Society Must Be Defended," "Birth of Biopolitics," "Security, Territory, Population," "The Courage of Truth," etc. (seuil.com/auteur/michel-…). Info here: college-de-france.fr/fr/actualites/…

Re-reading @cjbickerton and Carlo Invernizzi Accetti 's Technopopulism today, which feels very relevant in understanding Starmer, and offers a powerful explanation for the unease so many of us feel despite the election result

Really good overview of how things stand at the start of the Starmer administration, from James Butler James B in the London Review of Books London Review of Books. Three standout passages here — link to the whole piece in the next tweet. 1/2

This will be an important book: Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography Tom Arnold-Forster The life and ideas of one of the twentieth century’s leading political thinkers press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

Visiting the Centre Pompidou in Paris recently, I came across something rather unexpected: A monumentally sized painting of some of the central “French thinkers” of the 20th century which depicts them as Soviet apparatchiks. As it turns out, the painting only resurfaced...(1/16)

Had no idea that the late Charles Mills wrote a long article on the Lord of the Rings: “ This previously-unpublished essay by the late Charles W. Mills (1951–2021) seeks to demonstrate the racially-structured character of the universe created by J. R. R. Tolkien in The Hobbit and

So much about the immigration and asylum system is just completely unknown to people day to day. Some examples:

New open access article written with a wonderful team of comrades in Finance & Space, where we analyse the evolving relationship between resurgent state capitalism and neoliberalism tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Jack Taggart Imogen Liu Steve Rolfe Boudoir Glamour Photography quick 🧵 below:

Michel Foucault : Entretiens radiophoniques 1961-1983 (Éd. Henri-Paul Fruchaud) les-livres-de-philosophie.blogspot.com/2024/10/michel…

Well, this is cool: 25,000 unpublished pages of Jacques Derrida's seminar notes between 1959 and 2003 has been published online for free: dpul.princeton.edu/derridaseminars

Alyssa Battistoni - Free Gifts Capitalism and the Politics of Nature À paraître en juin aux Princeton UP

Deux nouveaux cours de Michel Foucault au Collège de France à paraître dans la nouvelle édition au format poche en novembre

Thanks - hot off the press!

It exists.