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The Intellectual History of Worker Education: An Interview with Edward Baring by Sam Franz and Véronique Mickisch

Today on the blog, Sam Franz and Véronique Mickisch interview Edward Baring about his forthcoming book, "Vulgar Marxism," which studies how projects for worker education shaped 20th-c. Marxist thought.
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Literature’s Circulation Across Fields and Nations: An Interview with Gisèle Sapiro by Rose Facchini

For the JHI Blog, Rose Facchini interviewed Gisèle Sapiro about her latest book, "Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur mondial? Le champ littéraire transnational" (Seuil, 2024), which studies the role of intermediaries, translators, and mediators in the making of world authorship.
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The Brain as Economy: Intellectual Labor and Mental Efficiency in Twentieth-Century Poland by Marek Maj This think piece is part of the forum “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History”

In a new think piece for the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy, Marek Maj discusses how, before the Soviet Union's détente with the West, Polish scientists attempted to render intellectual labor more efficient by adapting and revising the Western managerial turn to motivation.

Why Adorno Read His Enemies: An Interview with Mikko Immanen by Lilia Endter

For the blog, Lilia Endter interviews Mikko Immanen about his most recent book, Adorno's Gamble (
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Capital’s Singular Dynamic: An Interview with Beverley Best by Benjamín Gaillard-Garrido

Benjamín Gaillard-Garrido interviews Beverley Best about her book, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx's Capital (Verso, 2024), which dissects the third volume of Marx's Capital to reveal capital's means of appearance.
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Brief reflection on materialist and Marxist approaches to the history of science in the latest HSS Newsletter, co-authored with @bolman.bsky.social & Claire Votava

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Digital Tools for the Humanities Machines reconfigure work. And yet, historians or other humanistic researchers rarely think about the way that our digital workflows—the tools that we use to do our work—enable or disenable the kinds…

A brief reflection on digital tools for the humanities, published by Clio and the Contemporary: clioandthecontemporary.com/2025/05/23/d...

The Production of Nature: An Interview with Alyssa Battistoni by Jochen Schmon

Alyssa Battistoni discusses her book, Free Gifts, a value-theoretical study of capitalism's appropriation of nature, with Jochen Schmon. They cover the "new materialism," reproductive labor, existentialism, and activism.
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How Literary Agents Made Italian Publishing Transnational: An Interview with Anna Ferrando by Rose Facchini

Rose Facchini (@rosefacchini.bsky.social) interviewed Anna Ferrando about the practice of literary agency in Italy before and during World War II, a history that explains the peculiar fact that Fascist Italy ranked among the greatest consumers of foreign literature.

an honor to be interviewed by Robin Manley for @jhideas.bsky.social - come for the spicy takes on critical AI and media history, stay for the stuff on Saussure and dialectics

It was an absolute pleasure to chat to @rosefacchini.bsky.social for @jhideas.bsky.social about my book Translation Multiples, which is now officially out (@princetonupress.bsky.social)! I love the cover image and the title for this interview: "Translation in Different Keys". Thank you, Rose & Zach!

Thank you, Kasia! Always a relief when the author likes the title and image. It was a pleasure to work with you, too.

Call for Submissions, JHI Blog Forum: “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History” Inspired by a panel at the 2025 American Historical Association annual conference, this JHI Blog Forum will collect and publish short reflections on the relationship between new work in intellectual h...

JHI Blog welcomes submissions for a forum on the relationship between new work in intellectual history and political economy. Submit a proposal by May 15. Read the call here:

Storage, Investment, and Desire: An Interview with Jonathan Levy by Daniel Judt

Daniel Judt discusses with Jonathan Levy, author of the recently published "The Real Economy" (@princetonupress.bsky.social), what we can gain from studying the issues that occupied the less epistemologically constrained economic theories of the early twentieth century.

The Other Bataille: An Interview with Benjamin Noys and Alberto Toscano by Jared Bly

Engaging with several previously untranslated texts, Benjamin Noys and Alberto Toscano, editors of Bataille's Critical Essays (@uchicagopress.bsky.social), discussed the historical reception and contemporary relevance of Bataille's work with Jared Bly.