Monthly Archives: May 2012

Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy discussion

The discussion that followed Althusser’s famous ‘Lenin and Philosoophy’ lecture is freely available here, in Ted Stolze’s translation. Jean Wahl, Jean Hyppolite, Paul Ricoeur and others asking questions – thanks to David McInerney for the link.

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Call for Papers : Foucault and Mobilities Research

A Two-Day Symposium, 6th and 7th of January 2013, Lucerne, Switzerland The publication in English and in German of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France in the years 1970-1984 has been a key driver of the recent renaissance … Continue reading

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Deleuze in Taiwan

Authorized by the journal Deleuze Studies, the First International Deleuze Studies in Asia Conference will be held in Tamsui, a historic site in the Taipei Metropolitan area, May 31-June 2, 2013. Deleuze Studies has also authorized The International Deleuze Studies Conferences … Continue reading

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Originally posted on Varve:
I have not written much on this blog for a while. I have been belatedly finishing a book on Geographic Thought I have been writing for about five years. It is delivered! It has been an…

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Judith Butler interview

Interview in advance of her talk ‘A Politics of the Street’ in Vancouver.

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Call for Papers: Global/Urban/Politics

Call for Papers – session at the ISA, San Francisco, April 3-6, 2013 Global/Urban/Politics: A Contemporary Condition, but not a New One? Arguably one of the most important techniques of diffusion is the process of urbanization, whether thought geographically (Harvey) … Continue reading

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Slavoj Žižek interview on Less Than Nothing

Brief interview on the publication of Less Than Nothing  – and excerpt from the book – via the Verso blog.

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Georges Canguilhem – Writings on Medicine

Listed with Fordham University Press, who published his Knowledge of Life a few years back. (Thanks to Chathan for the link.) I mentioned the French publication of volume 1 of his Œuvres complètes in an earlier post (here).

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Heterotopian Studies

New site exploring Foucault’s notion of the heterotopia and uses made of it.

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