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Book Cover: The Memory of the World: Deep Time Animality and Eschatology by Ted Toadvine, a fossilized ammonoid spiral with the ocen in the background

The Memory of the World, by Ted Toadvine

Jan 28, 2026 10 min read

Reviewed by Timothy Clark

A purple book cover with only text: How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka's New Science, by Aaron Schuster, Short Circuits series

For a New Mythology of Reason: Aaron Schuster’s How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science

Jan 21, 2026 19 min read

Reviewed by Peter D. Mathews

Book cover of Neoliberal Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital by Adam Kotsko -- a dark, spooky image of a bat demon

A Hell Without End? Neoliberalism and the Grift Society

Dec 8, 2025 22 min read

by Peter Gratton

Bool Cover: For the Love of Psychoanalysis: The Play of Chance in Freud and Derrida - an abstract drawing that looks something like chalk rectangles on a chalkboard, on a white cover

Unmasterable Psychoanalysis: Elizabeth Rottenberg and the Freuderridean Mutation

Nov 19, 2025 23 min read

by Violeta Ruiz Espigares

Book cover, Virality Vitality Jonathan Basile. An image fades in color from blue to orange, depicting a microscopic image of bacteriophages - little orbs surrounding the membrane of a cell, attached to it by threads

Virality Vitality, by Jonathan Basile

Oct 6, 2025 28 min read

Reviewed by Ian James

Book cover of Peter Szendy' Powers of Reading: From Plato to Audiobooks, with an ephemral reddish pink and orange cover

Powers of Reading, by Peter Szendy

Aug 11, 2025 24 min read

Reviewed by Dominik Zechner