With essays by Nasser Zakariya, Maria Stavrinaki, Christophe Bouton, Catherine Perret, Sophia Roosth, François Bon, Jeremy Lin, Juan José Lahuerta, Michael Kunichika, Jacob Krell, Larisa Dryansky, Niels Henriksen, Rémi Labrusse, Pamela M. Lee, Jonathan Hay, and Finbarr Barry Flood.

ToC here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/res/current

Editorial (with M.S.): https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/699155

my piece: “Polyschematic prehistory at the dusk of colonialism: Internationalism, racism, and science in Henri Breuil and Jan Smuts” here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/701218

Lancet article - 'The Great War's New Body'

Todd Meyers and I have a brief article in the December issue of The Lancet (Vol 392, December 15, 2018) — an overview of the medical humanities angle of our The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe. Their site is here!

Aeon: The Maimed and the Healing

Aeon article: The Maimed and the Healing (related to The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe)

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‘Thomas’s splint’ drill, with two layers of blankets folded on top of the ‘patient’ and four layers beneath him; the remaining two layers are hanging on the sides until the drill is nearly complete.

interview with New Books Network

Maia Woolner (UCLA) interviewed me about The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe for New Books Network. Link is here, itunes here.

THE HUMAN BODY IN THE AGE OF CATASTROPHE

now out! a history (that i co-wrote with Todd Meyers) of the emergence of theories of homeostasis and bodily fragility out of the bodily injuries of World War I. It begins with prewar neurology, physiology, and psychiatry, looks at brain injuries, bodily shock, and case histories, turns to the theorists of bodily integrity after the war, and concludes with the consequences of this idea for concepts of the individual, of pain, of crisis, and of catastrophe; for psychiatry and psychoanalysis; for theories of international politics, anthropology, cybernetics, and, well, witchcraft; and for the long history of the welfare state.

order it at the univ. of chicago press or on amazon

Indo-European Fantasies and Structuralist Showdowns

Jamie Phillips and I had fun writing an essay on a vicious and forgotten structuralist showdown between Dumézil and Trubetskoi. Some of this is about how Dumézil wove fascism into mythology (and vice versa); some about the fantasy of a geographic origin of language; and some about Trubetskoi's participation in the construction of “Eurasianism” as an ideology (which has played a role in Russia's European politics over the past decade plus). Anyway, Jamie is not on social media, so I’m posting it. & here's the first page, for the fun insults...

Saussy - Ethnography of Rhythm - CL

Review of Haun Saussy's Ethnography of Rhythm in CL...

London - Transparency in Postwar France

I'll be discussing Transparency in Postwar France with Svenja Bromberg, Alberto Toscano, and Julia Ng at Goldsmiths, University of London, on June 12.

https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=11641

https://www.facebook.com/events/605569656469210/

French Historical Studies panel on Transparency in Postwar France [March 2018]:

Michael Behrent: https://youtu.be/SK5LC8ihba4

Todd Shepard: https://youtu.be/cbTLx3uv1EA

response (mostly to Behrent): https://youtu.be/uOlpFmvyobU

Video of 'A Deconstruction of Transparency'

Last November i gave the Culler Lecture in Critical Theory at Cornell University (and owe huge thanks to Paul Fleming and Camille Robcis for the very kind invitation)

the video is available here

ToC of "Writing Prehistory" (forthcoming)

Special issue of RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 69–70 Spring/Autumn 2018, co-edited with Maria Stavrinaki.

• Maria Stavrinaki and Stefanos Geroulanos – Editorial

• Nasser Zakariya - Scenes before Grey Antiquity

• Maria Stavrinaki - “We Escape Ourselves”: The Invention and Interiorization of the Age of the Earth in the Nineteenth Century

• Christophe Bouton - Dealing with Deep Time: The Issue of Ancestrality from Kant to Hegel

• Catherine Perret - Garder la main: For a Paleontology of Gesture

• Sophia Roosth - Turning to Stone: Fossil Hunting and Coeval Estrangement in Montana

• François Bon - The Division and Discord of Prehistoric Chronologies

• Jeremy K. Lin - Interpreting the “Documents of Language”: Linguistic Reconstruction as an Approach to Prehistoric Culture

• Juan José Lahuerta - Signs of Prehistory in the Artistic Economy of L’Esprit Nouveau

• Michael Kunichika - The Cave Paintings of Kapova: Toward a Socialist Map of Prehistory

• Stefanos Geroulanos - Polyschematic Prehistory and its Salience for Political Myth: Internationalism and Racism between the Abbé Breuil and Jan Smuts

• Jacob Krell - Genealogies of Technology and Prehistory in France: The “Atomic Age”

• Larisa Dryansky - Paleocybernetics: Technology and the Prehistoric Imaginary in American Art of the 1960s and 1970s

• Niels Henriksen - Prehistoric Techniques for Modern Painting: Asger Jorn’s Archaeological Picture Books

• Rémi Labrusse - The End of the Neolithic?

• Pamela M. Lee - Digital

Forthcoming in a few months—until which time, here are two gorgeous older covers of this amazing journal. It's really been a privilege to edit a special issue.

JHI Podcast - Transparency in Postwar France

I had a very fun discussion for the JHI Podcast with Sarah Dunstan, ARC Postdoctoral Fellow with the International History Laureate at the University of Sydney, and co-editor of the JHI Blog) about Transparency in Postwar France. Sarah set up the discussion brilliantly--her questions were really conducive to the type of conceptual history I'm advocating for in the book. The JHI podcast of our conversation is here.

itunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-2-interview-with-stefanos-geroulanos/id1378745292?i=1000410424725&mt=2

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/jhi-blog/podcast-2-interview-with-stef