Thank you for sharing Keanu. Glad it was interesting and helpful.

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 32 – trying to improve a draft As I said in the last update, I went to the EUI in Florence at the beginning of February with a nearly complete draft of my manuscript on Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France, and had …

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

Cover of the English translation of Kristeva's book, with image of a pen in an inkwell, wine glass and page with writing

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

The Necessary Pain Involved in Blogging (if you want your work to be preserved beyond your lifespan) I am thinking a lot these days about my own mortality. That’s not because I am obsessed with death or anything of the sort. It’s more that my health problems are accumulating and I do not know how long my body is going to hold out against them. It might be that I can clear all my current...

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.

eve.gd/2026/04/19/the-necessary...

Cover of the English translation of Kristeva's book, with image of a pen in an inkwell, wine glass and page with writing

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

Monarchies of Extraction Cambridge Core - Middle East Studies - Monarchies of Extraction

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 Books from Oxford University Press in recompense for review work, and two from Verso.

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

Radical Histories - Manchester University Press The Radical Histories series encourages innovative and field-defining research in the history of individuals, groups, movements and ideas which challenged the political, social and cultural status quo...

I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories.

Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...

Working with Manuscripts A first-of-its-kind handbook outlining best practices and common pitfalls for students and textual scholars interested in beginning to work with manuscripts ...

Liv Ingeborg Lied and Brent Nongbri, Working with Manuscripts: A Guide for Textual Scholars - @yalepress.bsky.social, April 2025
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

In print May, but available on Oxford Scholarship Online now!

academic.oup.com/book/62547

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Morgan Golf-French, Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785-1815 - @academic.oup.com, May 2026
global.oup.com/academic/pro... @zenothankyou.bsky.social

The Essential John Berger The essential collection of the work from critic, political activist, award winning novelist and artist John Berger - published to coincide with the author's 100th anniversary As we approach the cente...

Four new titles in @versobooks.bsky.social Essential John Berger series - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/collec...

cover of the book, with text in white in blue box. background is bars of blue to red with images of landscapes within them.

Saffron O'Neill, The Visual Life of Climate Change - Bristol University Press, December 2025 (print and open access)
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook-oa/...

Georges Redard and the Linguistic Atlas of Iranian Speakers After Émile Benveniste suffered a major stroke in late 1969, his former student and friend Georges Redard planned to publish some of Benveniste’s incomplete projects. Redard was by this time teachi…

Georges Redard and the Linguistic Atlas of Iranian Speakers - progressivegeographies.com/2026/04/12/g...

Conspiracy — Harvard University Press A bracing intellectual history that illustrates how the modern and contemporary obsession with conspiracy theories stems not from the slipperiness of truth but from the inability to imagine a positive...

Nicolas Guilhot, Conspiracy: The History of a Political Obsession - @harvardpress.bsky.social, October 2026
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Georges Redard and the Linguistic Atlas of Iranian Speakers After Émile Benveniste suffered a major stroke in late 1969, his former student and friend Georges Redard planned to publish some of Benveniste’s incomplete projects. Redard was by this time teachi…

Georges Redard and the Linguistic Atlas of Iranian Speakers - progressivegeographies.com/2026/04/12/g...

9th Denis Cosgrove Lecture: ‘Lithic Lives: Earth Stories from Cambodia’s Land of the Gemstones’, Professor by Harriet Hawkins at Royal Holloway.

Monday 11th May, 5:30pm, in the Moore Building auditorium.

Book your free ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/9th-cosgrove-lecture-tickets-1986329320468

They're very expensive, over £400 for the first 3 volumes: Leibniz: Philosophical Papers, 1677–1686 - Universal Language, Characteristic, Logic, Encyclopaedia, and General Science; Metaphysics, Natural Philosophy, Ethics, and Jurisprudence and Religion and Theology.
global.oup.com/academic/con...

Leibniz Philosophical Papers (1677–1686) A major new three-volume edition of Leibniz’s Philosophical Papers.

A Scholarly Edition of Leibniz’s Philosophical Papers - first three volumes published by Oxford University Press on 30 April 2026, edited by Lloyd Strickland.
leibnizpapers.org#edition

Composite image of the covers of Naissance de Rome and Tarpeia, with the dedications handwritten inside. All described in more detail in the linked post.

Two dedications from Georges Dumézil - to Alfred Ernoux and Luc Estang
progressivegeographies.com/2026/04/08/t...

Cover of book - divided in half with yellow to left and white to right, with text in capital letters

Tiphaine Samoyault, Translation and Violence, trans. Alexander Hertich, @princetonupress.bsky.social, September 2026
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Composite image of the covers of Naissance de Rome and Tarpeia, with the dedications handwritten inside. All described in more detail in the linked post.

Two dedications from Georges Dumézil - to Alfred Ernoux and Luc Estang
progressivegeographies.com/2026/04/08/t...

Cover of book - text in dark red boxes, over a black and white photograph. Photograph is possibly a bird's eye view of a crowd.

Julian Brigstocke, Nonauthoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power - LSE Press, March 2026 (print and open access)
press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3...
@jbrigstocke.bsky.social @lsepress.bsky.social

Screenshot of the University at Buffalo Digital Collections page, showing the eight files.

Audio recordings of Foucault's lectures in Buffalo - the 1972 course and part of the 1970 course - are now available online from the University at Buffalo
digital.lib.buffalo.edu/items/browse...
I describe them and how they relate to publications, here
progressivegeographies.com/2026/04/02/f...

Stuart Elden, Foucault’s lectures in Buffalo – audio recordings of the 1972 course and part of the 1970 course online (2026)

Maurice Blanchot’s Politics and His War-Time Reviews of Georges Dumézil The philosopher, literary theorist and novelist Maurice Blanchot’s politics have come under periodic scrutiny. Leslie Hill describes the source of the controversy:  As early as 1931 and 1932, …

Maurice Blanchot’s Politics and His War-Time Reviews of Georges Dumézil progressivegeographies.com/2026/04/05/m...

A Protestant Air by Clémentine Fauré-Bellaïche | Hardcover | Cornell University Press A Protestant Air focuses on the Protestant connection linking three intellectual giants of twentieth-century French thought: André Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Roland Barthes. All three came from a...

Clémentine Fauré-Bellaïche, A Protestant Air: Gide, Sartre, Barthes, and the Religion of Literary Modernity - @cornellupress.bsky.social, June 2026
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Anna Nygren, An Archive of Associations: When My Father Bought Foucault’s Old Car (2026)

Anna Nygren, An Archive of Associations: When My Father Bought Foucault’s Old Car, Literary Hub, 13 February 2026. Anna Nygren on Writing Between Intertextuality, Obsession and Categorization One day last…