Monthly Archives: August 2010

The End of Foucault blog?

Over at Foucault blog, Jeremy discusses how he is putting it on hiatus. This is partly because of the work involved and partly because his interests are broader than simply Foucault (see the new Open Geography blog). I owe Jeremy … Continue reading

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The Production of Jerusalem

The Guardian has an interesting report about the new light railway being built in Jerusalem here. The last time I was there in 2009 there was a lot of work going on in Jaffa Street. The focus of the story is … Continue reading

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Middlesex philosophy lecturer job

Yes, really. All the details are here – http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABO084/lecturer-in-philosophy/ I was going to write something in response – ten month post, very quickly into teaching, the context, etc. – but Christine Battersby has said it all on the Philosophy in Europe list … Continue reading

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New blog – Open Geography

Jeremy Crampton has a new blog – Open Geography, where “open is an adjective and a verb”… He’s already posted a few things on Wikileaks, Foucault and the ‘Ground Zero mosque’.

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Roundup – publishing

A couple of links of interest that both relate to academic publishing and the modern university Ian Bogost on Rice University Press being closed down and on the different printing models in publishing here (via Graham at OOP). Stanley Fish arguing … Continue reading

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Leibniz on Fossils

In The Shorter Leibniz Texts, edited by Lloyd Strickland, there are a few interesting excerpts from Leibniz’s writings on fossils. (See also Strickland’s translations of Leibniz site here.) Some of these come from the Protegaea, which was published in a bi-lingual … Continue reading

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Hardt on Foucault

Michael Hardt reviews Foucault’s 82-83 and 83-84 lecture courses – Le gouvernement de soi et des autres and Le courage de la vérité – in the latest New Left Review. Find it here – subscribers only. Most of the first half of the review … Continue reading

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Incomplete Editions and References

In Matthew Stewart’s very good account of Leibniz and Spinoza, The Courtier and the Heretic (Yale UP, 2005), there is a note in the bibliography that The standard, reference edition of Leibniz’s collected works is that of the Berlin Akademie. … Continue reading

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‘Ground Zero Mosque’

This needed to be done – photos of other things the same distance from the ‘Ground Zero’ site. The commentary below is almost unnecessary, but sadly needed to be said. Thanks to Nathan for alerting me to this. Update 10pm – … Continue reading

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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

An interesting looking conference – “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects in the Early Modern and Medieval Periods”, March 11-2 2011, George Washington University.  Jane Bennett is the keynote. Details here.

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