Roslyn Dubler discusses her recent JHI journal article, “Juliet Mitchell, French Structuralistm, and the Subject of Feminism in 1970s Britian,” in a conversation with Carolina Iribarren.

The new issue of the JHI includes articles by Timothy Stanton, Ian Stewart, and Mrinalini Sisodia Wadhwa, plus a cluster of essays by Yvan Prkachin, Danielle Carr, Jean-Gaël Barbara, Nadine Weidman, and Cornelius Borck on "The Brain Sciences and Intellectual History, 1945–75."

For the Blog’s forum on the conceptual history of technology, Tianyi Ding traces zero’s emergence through a series of material practices, from bookkeeping in Renaissance Italy and weaving in eighteenth-century France to the 1890 US census and birth of IBM.

Beneath every historical concept of technology lies a different concept of the hand, writes Rae Bruml Norton in the JHI Blog’s technology forum. When we hear claims that technology has become separate from the craft of the hand, we must ask just which "hand" is being discussed.

For the In Theory podcast, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Benoît Loiseau about his new work, "The Death of the Clinic: Radical Experiments in the Art of Medicine," which offers a formally inventive history of five radical attempts to reimagine the institution of the clinic in the 20th century.

In the JHI Blog's ongoing forum, D. W. Kamish explores the origins of the "taboo" on technological determinism, namely in reductive attacks on Soviet Marxists, and calls for its end.

Look for Part II, an interview with Sinha, next week!

Opening the JHI Blog’s technology forum, Kapp Singer critiques the history of science’s late-twentieth-century fixation on “living technologies.” Instead of historicizing the standpoint of the ascendant biotech industry, Singer argues, many historians inadvertently reproduced it.

The JHI Blog's newsletter is a great way to stay in the loop about updates and new scholarship from the blog and journal. Here's the latest installment, with information about the upcoming symposium, links to many un-paywalled journal articles, and so much more.

JHI Blog editors Zac Endter and Jonas Knatz introduce their forum on "The Conceptual History of Technology." Contributions will be published weekly through December. @zacendter.bsky.social @jonasknatz.bsky.social

For the In Theory podcast, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Mélanie Lamotte about her book, "By Flesh and Toil," which unveils how a shared set of racial laws wedded sites across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans in the early French Empire. @harvardpress.bsky.social