Political theorist, political geographer, now mainly write on the history of ideas. Professor at University of Warwick, work on territory, Foucault, Lefebvre and new project on Indo-European thought in C20th France. https://progressivegeographies.com
It also led to this little piece about Erwin Panofsky’s dog and Ernst Kantorowicz - progressivegeographies.com/2025/09/15/e...
Erwin Panofsky’s dog and Ernst KantorowiczNot Panofsky’s actual dog (who can be seen in the linked file), but a very similar-looking one – CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikipedia Commons In the archives of the Institute for Advanced Study…progressivegeographies.comI can't speak for this collection, as I only wrote a chapter. The risk is that giving attention to accusations gives them a credibility which they don't deserve. I briefly discussed this in one of my books on Foucault. There is a more extensive bibliography at michel-foucault.com/bibliographi...
BibliographiesBibliographies of Foucault’s work and relating to his work Page last updated 2 April 2025 Michel Foucault’s shorter works in English translation. A bibliography by Richard Lynch List of…michel-foucault.comThe Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche inches towards completion, with the works Nietzsche published now all available. I think just two volumes of notes and the final volume, with Editors' comments, Chronology and index will remain after this. www.sup.org/books/series...
www.sup.orgBooks received (2) – Bloch, Wolff, Butler, Sloterdijk, Endure, Klein-Gousseff, Ginzburg progressivegeographies.com/2026/07/27/b...
Books received (2) – Bloch, Wolff, Butler, Sloterdijk, Endure, Klein-Gousseff, GinzburgTwo recent editions of texts by Marc Bloch, Étienne Wolff’s Science des monstres, two recent books by Judith Butler, Who’s Afraid of Gender? and What World is This? A Pandemic Phenomeno…progressivegeographies.comI've previously shared some of the many tributes to Ginzburg, who died in June. I hadn't seen that this early seminar was now translated. I'm writing a short piece on Ginzburg, which I'll post soon. progressivegeographies.com/2026/07/13/s...
Some more of the many tributes to Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026)There are too many to try to be comprehensive, but here are a few of the tributes and reposts of older material celebrating the life and career of the remarkable historian Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026…progressivegeographies.comI'm slow to notice this one, but looks interesting. My own Shakespearean Territories discusses related issues. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Shakespearean TerritoriesShakespeare was an astute observer of contemporary life, culture, and politics. The emerging practice of territory as a political concept and technology did not elude his attention. In Shakespearean T...press.uchicago.edu