Monthly Archives: August 2013

Review – A Companion to Foucault (2013)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Metapsychology online reviews Review – A Companion to Foucault by Christopher Falzon,Timothy O’Leary, and Jana Sawicki (Editors) Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 Review by Michael Maidan This companion to the work of French thinker Michael Foucault offers an…

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Proceedings of the fourth annual Conference of XVIIth century French literature

Does anyone have access to Acta: Proceedings of the fourth annual Conference of XVIIth century French literature, a publication that on pages 22 and 23 summarises a 1972 lecture by Foucault entitled “Ceremony, Theatre, and Politics in the 17th Century”? Worldcat suggests … Continue reading

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San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment

Details here – via The Guardian.

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Annuaire du Centre coordinateur de la recherche urbaine pour la France – a Foucault query

In Daniel Defert’s ‘Chronologie’/’Chronology’ in Dits et écrits/A Companion to Foucault, he makes reference to a publication entitled Annuaire du Centre coordinateur de la recherche urbaine pour la France. This is in the entry for October 1973  (p. 44/55), and Defert suggests … Continue reading

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Foucault, La société punitive. Cours au collège de France 1972 – 1973 (2013)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michel Foucault (2013) La société punitive. Cours au collège de France 1972-1973, Paris: Gallimard Seuil. Ce livre paraîtra le 10 octobre 2013. Amazon France page Frédéric Gros Foucault et « la société punitive » Compte…

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Steve Mentz on Sloterdijk

English Professor Steve Mentz has an interesting post on how Sloterdijk relates to his book-in-progress Shipwreck and the Ecology of Globalization. I really enjoyed his earlier book At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean, so looking forward to his work on this question. … Continue reading

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Kurgan’s Close Up at a Distance reviewed

Close Up at a Distance reviewed.

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Interviews – Meet Antipode’s new Editorial Collective

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
As of this month, Antipode is in the capable hands of a new Editorial Collective: Nik Theodore (University of Illinois at Chicago); Sharad Chari (University of the Witwatersrand); Vinay Gidwani (University of Minnesota); Katherine McKittrick…

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Foucault audio files

There are audio recordings of Foucault at various places online. This post attempts to make sense of them. Comments and additions gratefully received. update 9 Dec 2014 – see this page for a better, reorganised chronological list. Ubuweb has the … Continue reading

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CFP, AAG 2014: Geophilosophy and the Geo-Social

Originally posted on GAPING EARTH:
Elizabeth Johnson, Harlan Morehouse and myself are putting together some sessions at the 2014 AAG around the relationship between Geophilosophy and Geography, and particularly what we are calling the Geo-Social. Please circulate the below CFP…

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