Published: 09/04/2025
Whose Mediterranean are we talking about? What languages are most appropriate to its reception and understanding? With two-thirds of the Mediterranean constituted by the histories and cultures of its African and Asian shorelines and hinterlands, and its principal spoken language being Arabic – in all its variants and dialects – then the Mediterranean clearly exceeds[…]
Imprint: Dead Letter Office
FORTHCOMING Spring 2026
The Xeno-Monde: Worlds of Strangers emerges as a response and challenge to the history of “being” in philosophy. The discourse of “being” and “being” in a world is an ancient one, to which Martin Heidegger returns in his early lectures and writings. Indeed, existential philosophy, if it has foundations at all, emerges as a way[…]
Published: 01/03/2015
This provocative and interesting book argues that the celebratory discourse of ‘the contemporary’ is not as innocent as it seems, but is geared towards cancelling out or negating the capital-unfriendly scepticism of modernism and postmodernism. This study contributes significantly to the field of what might be termed critical cultural studies, particularly with regard to the[…]