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Historicizing Foucault: Stuart Elden on Tracing Foucault’s Ideas from Discipline and Punish to the History of Sexuality

by contributing editors Jonas Knatz and Anne Schult

April Reading Recommendations

This month: on totalitarianism, pseudoscience, the making of the English working class, and the sex life of elephants.

“It’s Coming Back Around Again”: Rage Against The Machine as Radical Historians

by guest contributor Jake Newcomb

The Ascent of Affect: Emotions Research and the History of Emotions – Interview with Ruth Leys (Part II)

by contributing editors Nuala Caomhánach and Jonas Knatz

The History of Trauma and the Turn From Guilt to Shame – Interview with Ruth Leys (Part I)

by contributing editors Nuala Caomhánach and Jonas Knatz

Believing in Witches and Demons

by guest contributor Jan Machielsen

Reading Recommendations: Pandemics Past and Present

Classic books and recent essays that have helped us understand pandemics in the past and present.

In Theory: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Vincent Brown about Tacky’s Revolt and Atlantic Slave War

by co-host Disha Karnad Jani

In Theory: Simon Brown interviews Alexander Zevin about the World according to the Economist

by co-host Simon Brown

What the Digital Dark Age Can Teach Us About Ancient Technologies of Writing

by guest contributors Sara Mohr and Edward C. Williams

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