The Notes Taken

Symposium has published my review of Martin Breaugh, Christopher Holman, Rachel Magnusson, Paul Mazzocchi, and Devin Penner (eds.), Thinki...

My review of Todd May's Friendship in an Age of Economics has been published by Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies . You might...

I've occassionally mentioned my interest in Negritude, existentialism, and postcolonial theory. Over a decade ago, I was floored when I...

(PublicAffairs, 2011) The "Great War of Africa" has raged at varying levels of intensity in Zaire / the Democratic Republic of C...

It all began with a late night hyperlink clicking session, and it ended with reviews of all of Patrik Ourednik's books that have been tr...

My review of Miguel Abensour's Democracy Against the State has been posted on the CSCP website, meaning that it is forthcoming in a fut...

Thanks to insistence of occasional contributor Sean Moreland, I've lately taken some interest in British romanticism. The impetus is a c...

With 2012 beginning, what better time to look back at 2011 in reviews: Thomas Muntzer, Sermon to the Princes (Verso) by Matt McLennan ...

My review of Bernard Stiegler's For a New Critique of Political Economy is up on the CSCP website . I argue that Despite his claim of...

To: Joshua and all other interested parties re: The "S" Word: A Short History of an American Tradition...Socialism ( Verso , 201...

Patrik Ourednik's Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century ( Dalkey Archive , 2005) is an unusual book. It's not quite a ...

Sure, it's a long weekend in the US and Canada. But don't let that get in the way of checking out a few notable book reviews.  Firs...

My review of Jacques Rancière's The Politics of Literature , which I wrote during our sojourn in Paris, is now available at the Marx and...

It was a late night hyperlink clicking session that led me to Patrik Ourednik. I don't know exactly where it started, but it ended with ...

Arthur C. Danto's Andy Warhol ( Yale, 2009 ) is a philosophical biography of the most famous representative of American pop art. A biog...

(Semiotext(e), 2010) In 1977, at the time of his death by road accident, Clastres was compiling materials for his third book. Only 43, he h...

( Verso, 2009 ) Badiou's book collects eulogies to certain recent-contemporary giants of French intellectual life. All are beautifull...

For my introductory philosophy courses, such as 'Great Philosophers' this semester, I always teach Descartes' Meditations . Howe...

Peter Gratton's review of Jean-Luc Nancy's The Truth of Democracy is up on the CSCP website, in advance of its publication in Sympo...

(Little, Brown and Company, 2010) Animal fables are generally awesome on account of how grown up and gruesome and darkly humourous they c...