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11/20/2025

This Friday, November 21st, tune in for “The Reader, or: Reading in the Subjunctive Mood,” an online lecture with Peter Szendy, author of POWERS OF READING: FROM PLATO TO AUDIOBOOKS.

8:30pm CET. Hosted by The European Graduate School. See below to join on Zoom.

https://mailchi.mp/2035a8672aae/new-leading-thinkers-course-on-alain-badiou-6422383?e=c4503ee70c

11/18/2025

"Amerasia explores how sixteenth-century Europeans experienced the discovery of the New World, initially confusing America and Asia and creating a "mental continent.”… [it] reads like an atlas of dreams, a collection of productive errors, a novel of geography before geography became a science.”

AMERASIA by Elizabeth Horodowich and Alexander Nagel, reviewed in Italian journal Rivista il Mulino.

"Amerasia" esplora come gli europei del Cinquecento hanno vissuto la scoperta del Nuovo mondo, confondendo inizialmente America e Asia e creando un "continente mentale"

11/17/2025

Up today at Public Seminar, read an excerpt from Hayek’s Bastards by Quinn Slobodian!

Quinn Slobodian

11/13/2025

For a podcast episode accompanying the recent opening of Kunsthaus Zürich's Lygia Clark retrospective, Irene Small discusses THE ORGANIC LINE: TOWARD A TOPOLOGY OF MODERNISM with Elize Mazadiego.

Listen below!
https://lygia-clark-kunsthaus-zurich-podcast.podigee.io

11/06/2025

“There has been a paradigm shift in Dylan scholarship aimed at bridging the gap between academia and popular writing, as seen in historian Timothy Hampton’s Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work, one of the best books ever written on Dylan.”

In a recent piece for Pop Matters, Jack Walters remarks on the scholarship of BOB DYLAN: HOW THE SONGS WORK by Timothy Hampton.

Music theorist Steven Rings helps readers understand Bob Dylan the performer, not the lyricist or songwriter, in a welcome and indispensable addition to Dylan scholarship.

11/04/2025

Next month in London, catch Sara Nadal-Melsió at Birkbeck University of London, as she presents her recent book EUROPE AND THE WOLF in conversation with Esther Leslie.

Friday, December 5th, 6pm.
https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/55672/europe-and-the-wolf-political-variations-on-a-musical-figure-sara-nadal-melsioacute-in-conversation-with-esther-leslie

10/30/2025

“Slobodian helpfully, and often brilliantly, traces the neoliberal threads at work...”

HAYAK’S BASTARDS: RACE, GOLD, IQ, AND THE CAPITALISM OF THE FAR RIGHT reviewed in Common Weal Magazine.

Neoliberalism now defines the political mainstream, but where do its boundaries end? Author Quinn Slobodian traces the varied landscape of neoliberal thought.

10/20/2025

“I think one useful way to understand what the issue is or the fundamental fault lines in neoliberal thought is to ask yourself at different times, “Who are they against?” You know, who do they see as the greatest threat to the market order, capitalist stability, economic freedom? The answer to this question changes from decade to decade.”

In an interview for Harici, Quinn Slobodian discusses neoliberalism and some of the themes from his recent book HAYEK’S BASTARDS.

Quinn Slobodian analyzes the ideological pedigree of the new Trump administration and the MAGA and Silicon Valley team gathering around them in his recently published book Hayek's Bastards and his earlier work Crack-Up Capitalism.

10/14/2025

“By giving us a vision of Trumpism that is grounded in material relationships and in the structure of our current economic order, Cooper offers us a way of thinking about how we might get from here to there: a hope that by pressing for changes that bring greater democracy to our material lives, we might eventually create a bigger challenge to the barbarism before us.”

Kim Phillips-Fein reviews Melinda Cooper’s COUNTERREVOLUTION in The Nation Magazine.

The proliferation of privately held companies during the Reagan years laid the foundations for Trump’s approach to government.

10/07/2025

For the latest episode of The Dig, Melinda Cooper talks about her recent book COUNTERREVOLUTION.
http://thedigradio.com/podcast/counterrevolution-w-melinda-cooper/

10/06/2025

“A welcome contribution to the genre of far-right explainers, all too many of which, as Slobodian rightfully notes, neglect to even mention the word capitalism in accounting for the rise of this political force.”

Suzanne Schneider reviews Quinn Slobodian’s HAYEK’S BASTARDS in The New York Review of Books

The “new fusionist” intellectuals are the missing link between nineteenth-century race science, twentieth-century libertarianism, and the contemporary alt-right.

10/02/2025

Next week, join us for a discussion hosted by the Center for European Studies at Rutgers University as Sara Nadal-Melsió presents her recent book, EUROPE AND THE WOLF: POLITICAL VARIATIONS ON A MUSICAL FIGURE.

Wednesday, October 8th, at 5:30pm.

Center for European Studies, The School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey