Category: Publications
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Revolution & Restoration: New Publication from Massimiliano Tomba
Professor Massimiliano Tomba’s new publication, Revolution and Restoration: The Politics of Anachronism (Fordham University Press, 2025) is now available! At a time when terms like restoration, religion, authority, obligations, and natural law—once the rallying cries of the most emancipatory movements—are increasingly coopted by conservative forces, Revolution and Restoration offers a thought-provoking account of how “outdated” concepts can…
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Maria Puig de la Bellacasa in Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair
Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair (MIT Press, 2025) with a contribution from HistCon’s own Professor Maria Puig de la Bellacasa is now available! At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, fragility offers an opportunity for a different kind…
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Curating the Moving Image from Prof. Mark Nash
In Curating the Moving Image, influential curator and theorist Mark Nash draws on his work at Documenta11, the Venice Biennale, and elsewhere to explore the possibilities of contemporary curation. Constructing this richly illustrated book as a curatorial project in and of itself, Nash outlines several key concepts that range from exhibition architecture and curating as an affective…
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Beneath the Mountain: An Anti-Prison Reader from Mumia Abu-Jamal
History of Consciousness graduate student Mumia Abu-Jamal’s upcoming publication Beneath the Mountain: An Anti-Prison Reader to be published March 19 2024. About the publication: Essential radical texts by enslaved, jailed, and imprisoned Americans, edited by renowned political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and activist-scholar Jennifer Black. “Martin Luther King told us what he saw when he went to the…
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A People’s History of SFO from Prof. Eric Porter
Congratulations to Eric Porter on His New Book, “A People’s History of SFO”! A People’s History of SFO uses the history of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to tell a multifaceted story of development, encounter, and power in the surrounding region from the eighteenth century to the present. In lively, engaging stories, Eric Porter reveals SFO’s…
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The becoming-black of the world? On Achille Mbembe’s Critique of Black Reason
“We have known for a long time that ‘critique’ – as a guide for judgement – emerged as a rule for telling apart the proper limits of reason from its various forms of error or misconception. Critique, by definition, establishes the limits of reason; it forges the laws, ends and beginnings of thought. Critique legislates…
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Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory
Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory is a peer-reviewed, open access online journal published by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs with the aim of foregrounding the global reach and form of contemporary critical theory. The inaugural issue includes, “Year One: Reflections on Turkey’s Second Founding and the Politics of Division,” by Professor Banu…
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Mistaken Identity
Asad Haider‘s Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump will be published by Verso in April. Whether class or race is the more important factor in modern politics is a question right at the heart of recent history’s most contentious debates. Among groups who should readily find common ground, there is little agreement. To…
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Black Radical Tradition
Erin Gray, Asad Haider, and Ben Mabie’s edited volume, Black Radical Tradition: A Reader, will be published by Verso in November. An exhaustive collection of revolutionary theory from slavery and reconstruction to Black Power to Black Feminism With activists taking to the streets with renewed vigor to fight racism, inequality, and capitalism, this collection of classic writings…
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Whither Fanon?: Studies in the Blackness of Being
Professor David Marriott’s Whither Fanon? Studies in the Blackness of Being will be published by Stanford University Press in June 2018 as part of the Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Frantz Fanon may be most known for his more obviously political writings, but in the first instance, he was a clinician, a black Caribbean psychiatrist who…
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Those Who Resist
History of Consciousness graduate candidate Asad Haider contributes “Those Who Resist” to the Verso website. “Today we must remember Heather Heyer and all those who left their homes in the morning to fight for justice, knowing that they might not come back. These people are never angels or saints. They are ordinary people, like you and…
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Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique: Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser
Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique: Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser. Edited by Professor Banu Bargu of History of Consciousness and Chiara Bottici – Palgrave Macmillan, July 2017. This edited collection examines the relationship between three central terms—capitalism, feminism, and critique—while critically celebrating the work and life of a thinker who has done the most to address this nexus:…