A non-systematic, alphabetically ordered list of the academic books published this year I read and most liked – the photo is of some that were to hand.
- Louis Althusser, On the Reproduction of Capitalism (Verso)
- Ben Anderson, Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions (Ashgate)
- Étienne Balibar, Equaliberty: Political Essays (Duke University Press)
- Jens Bartleson, Sovereignty as Symbolic Form (Routledge)
- Timothy Brennan, Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel and the Colonies (Stanford University Press)
- Neil Brenner (ed.), Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization (Jovis)
- Grégoire Chamayou, Les corps vils: Expérimenter sur les êtres humains aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles (La Découverte - re-edition)
- Deborah Cowen, The Deadly Life of Logistics (University of Minnesota Press)
- Andy Doolen, Territories of Empire (Oxford University Press) – which I endorsed
- Brad Evans and Julian Reid, Resilient Life (Polity)
- Jenny Edkins, Face Politics (Routledge) – this isn’t out quite yet, but I read the manuscript for the press and endorsed it
- Michel Foucault, Subjectivité et vérité (Gallimard/Seuil) – plus the translations of Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling and On the Government of the Living, which I review here
- Gastón Gordillo, Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction (Duke University Press) – see my interview with Gastón at Society and Space
- François Guéry and Didier Deleule, The Productive Body, translated and introduced by Philip Barnard and Stephen Shapiro (Zero)
- Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything (Penguin)
- Benjamin Kunkel, Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis (Verso)
- Henri Lefebvre, Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment, edited by Łukasz Stanek (University of Minnesota Press) – see my interview with Łukasz at Society and Space; and also the one-volume Critique of Everyday Life published this year
- Stephen Legg, Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India (Duke University Press)
- David N. Livingstone, Dealing With Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution (Johns Hopkins University Press)
- Mark Neocleous, War Power, Police Power (Edinburgh University Press)
- Élisabeth Roudinesco, Lacan: In Spite of Everything, translated by Gregory Elliott (Verso)
- Saskia Sassen, Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (Harvard University Press) – review forthcoming in 2015; pre-print
- David Stubbs, Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany (Faber & Faber)
- Japhy Wilson, Jeffrey Sachs: The Strange Case of Dr Shock and Mr Aid (Verso)
I’m sure there are plenty I’ve missed, and some of the ones that came out this year I bought or was sent are still waiting to be read – including Quentin Skinner, Forensic Shakespeare and Martin Empson, Land & Labour: Marxism, Ecology and Human History from the pile above. Two books I was looking forward to – Mick Dillon’s Biopolitics of Security in the 21st Century and Bob Jessop’s The State: Past, Present, Future - slipped to 2015. Both are on order.
These are the ones I liked in 2013… the novels I read this year are here and here; and the music I most liked here.
