Some Publications
This is a selection of recent publications (and some earlier ones that I still like). A longer list can be found at the bottom of the page.
Introduction: The Century as Participle, and in Turn as Looking Glass
in A Cultural History of Ideas, vol.6: The Modern Age (2022)
chronocenosis: an introduction to power and time
With Dan Edelstein and Natasha Wheatley. Editors’ intro to our Power and Time (2020).
The German edition of this text is now out as Macht und Zeit (with August Verlag / Matthes & Seitz Verlag), 2023.
Stalkers of a Forgotten World: The painters of Lascaux as seen by Georges Bataille
in Préhistoire. Une énigme moderne. Centre Georges Pompidou exhibition catalog, ed. by Maria Stavrinaki et al (Paris: Musée National d’art Moderne, 2019); in French.
The Maimed and the healing
in Aeon, december 2018, with Todd Meyers.
After Transparency (Henri Michaux)
in Qui Parle 26.2 (December 2017), 360-64.
Eurasianism versus IndoGermanism: Linguistics and Mythology in the 1930s Controversies over European Prehistory
with Jamie Phillips; published online and forthcoming on paper in History of Science.
The Society of Ideas
Introduction, with Gisèle Sapiro, to The Routledge Handbook in the History and Sociology of Ideas (Routledge, 2023).
An Introduction to the Sheer Incommensurable Togetherness of the Living Existence of the Personal Self and the Living Otherness of the Material World
Introduction with Ben Kafka, to William Pietz, The Problem of the Fetish, eds. Francesco Pellizzi, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Ben Kafka (2022).
The Temporal Assemblage of the Nazi New Man: The “Empty” Present,
the Incipient Ruin, and the Apocalyptic Time of Lebensraum
in Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley, Power and Time (2020).
“The attraction of fascism itself”: Anson Rabinbach’s writings on Nazism and its opponents
With Dagmar Herzog, editors’ introduction to Anson Rabinbach, Staging the Third Reich: Essays on in Cultural and Intellectual History (Routledge, 2020), 1-19.
CYBERNETICS AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES
with Leif Weatherby, in History of the Human Sciences (Feb. 2020), 3-12.
The Great War’s New Body
with Todd Meyers, in The Lancet, 392 (Dec.15, 2018)
Edited and with an editorial/introduction, with Maria Stavrinaki
TRANSPARENCY, HUMANISM, and the politics of the future before and after May '68
in Emmanuel Alloa and Dieter Thomä, Transparency, Subjectivity, Society: Critical Perspectives. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
An army of shadows: Black Markets, Adaptation, and Social Transparency in Postwar France
Journal of Modern History 88 (March 2016), 60-95.
Georges Canguilhem's Critique of Medical Reason
Introduction to G. Canguilhem, Writings on Medicine (Fordham, 2012).
Co-authored with Todd Meyers
Violence and Mechanism: Canguilhem's Overturning of the Cartesian Legacy
in Qui Parle, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 2015), pp. 125-146.
Integrations, vigilance, catastrophe: the neuropsychiatry of aphasia in henry head and kurt goldstein
authored with Todd Meyers, in Nima Bassiri and David Bates, eds. Plasticity and Pathology (Fordham University Press, 2015), 112-158. (This essay is superseded by its revision as chapter 4 of The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe.)
The Brain in Abeyance: Freud and the Claim of Neuropsychoanalysis
History of the Present, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall 2011), pp. 219-243
The Plastic Self and the Prescription of Psychology: Ethnopsychology, Crowd Psychology and Psychotechnics, 1890 - 1920
in Republics of Letters 3:2, special issue on “Conflicts of the Faculties: Interdisciplinarity” (see Edited Volumes above), 2014.
PUBLICATIONS list
Polyschematic Prehistory at the Dusk of Colonialism: Internationalism, racism, and science in Henri Breuil and Jan Smuts
in Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 69-70 (Spring-Autumn 2018): Writing Prehistory.
THE Scaffolding of Sovereignty:
Editors’ Introduction
with Zvi Ben-Dor Benite and Nicole Jerr; in Ben-Dor, Geroulanos, and Jerr, eds, The Scaffolding of Sovereignty (2017), 1-49.
The Sovereignty of the New Man after Wagner:
Artist and Hero, Symbolic History, and the Staging of Origins
in Ben-Dor, Geroulanos, and Jerr, eds, The Scaffolding of Sovereignty (2017), 440-468.
CARL SCHMITT's RECEPTION IN HEGEL'S FRANCE
in Modern Intellectual History 8, no. 3 (November 2011) , pp. 531-560
'Les Ar-z et les sciences': aesthetic Theory and aesthetic politics in Comte's Late work
in Andrew Wernick, ed, The Anthem Companion to Auguste Comte (London: Anthem Press, 2017), 143-158.
Atheism and antihumanism
This is a forum on The Immanent Frame for a forum on my An Atheism that is not Humanist with Samuel Moyn, Judith Surkis, Gil Anidjar, Martin Kavka, Simon During, James K. A. Smith, and two pieces of my own.
