Category Archives: Jeremy Crampton

Secure the Volume – Kentucky video

Posted on April 17, 2012 by

The video of my presentation at the University of Kentucky. [Update: the higher resolution version has replaced the earlier one] The slides are somewhat blurred and the audience questions quiet, but may be of interest.

Posted in Boundaries, Conferences, Eyal Weizman, Jeremy Crampton, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Paul Virilio, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Stephen Graham, Territory, Terror and Territory | 8 Comments

Matt Hannah – Dark Territory Review forum

Posted on March 13, 2012 by

Review forum on Matthew Hannah’s book Dark Territory in the Information Age – here (requires subscription). Pieces by Neil Smith, Stephen Legg, Bernd Beliner, Patricia Ehrkamp and Jeremy Crampton, with a reply by Hannah. Such a shame about the prohibitive … Continue reading →

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Crampton and Elden on Exploring Geopolitics

Posted on December 17, 2011 by

Over at Exploring Geopolitics, Jeremy Crampton and I are two of the first to offer our thoughts on the year in geopolitics. Jeremy discusses Wikileaks; I say something about the Occupy movement. Saul Cohen offers much more comprehensive thoughts here.

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Foucault on lettres de cachet and their contemporary relevance

Posted on August 11, 2011 by

Interesting post from Jeremy Crampton here on Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault’s collection Le désordre des familles and the more recent National Security Letters in the US. He ends with a tantalising suggestion for a paper: “It would be very useful if someone … Continue reading →

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Reactions to the Berfrois review

Posted on July 27, 2011 by

Peter Gratton offers some thoughts in response to my review of Foucault’s 1970-71 course here. Interesting ideas about how the claims could be read as a critique of the crisis of legitimation argument in modernity. I think this might be … Continue reading →

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2012 – talks on ‘Volume’

Posted on June 11, 2011 by

Somewhat into the future, two dates for talks in 2012 are already in the diary… 30 March 2012 – “Secure the Volume”, Public Lecture on Security theme, Committee for Social Thought, University of Kentucky 3 May 2012 – “The Politics … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Jeremy Crampton, Peter Sloterdijk, Stephen Graham, The Space of the World | 1 Comment

New books

Posted on May 23, 2011 by

A whole big pile of books arrived over the last few months while I’ve been away. Some of them are ones I have chapters in; one I endorsed; most are ones I asked for in recompense for review work; some … Continue reading →

Posted in Alain Badiou, Bruno Latour, Eugen Fink, Fossils, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Giorgio Agamben, Gottfried Leibniz, Graham Harman, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jeremy Crampton, Martin Heidegger, Medieval Studies, My Publications, Slavoj Zizek | Leave a comment

Crampton, Elden, Chomsky

Posted on March 10, 2011 by

Jeremy Crampton uses the opportunity of linking to my interview to recount an embarassing story about us here.

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Cahiers pour l’analyse

Posted on March 5, 2011 by

Thanks to Nick at Speculative Heresy for the reminder to check out the Cahiers d’analyse project website. Loads of interesting material there, including the debate between the Cercle d’épistémologie and Foucault in 1968, in which Foucault discusses some of themes … Continue reading →

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The Geospatial Revolution

Posted on March 3, 2011 by

If you are interested in the interrelation of universities, the military and developments in geospatial technology… First, watch the glossy video produced by Penn State then go to Open Geography and read Jeremy Crampton’s critique.

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