Monthly Archives: November 2013

Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco translator William Weaver has died

Crooked Timber has the news here, and links to an obituary in The Guardian.

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A short previously untranslated comment by Foucault on religion, witches and madness – and the need for a structuralist study

Update August 2026: Material from this post has been used in a longer discussion, The Experience of the Demonic and Its Waning: Foucault, Madness and Witchcraft. In a post earlier this week I discussed a text of Foucault’s from 1969 on … Continue reading

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CFP: Michel Foucault: Ethnography and Critique (2014)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Call for Papers Michel Foucault: Ethnography and Critique Convenors: Orazio Irrera & Martina Tazzioli Bergamo, June 5-7, 2014 Deadline: February 17, 2014 Conference Website and contact details [Editor: Link Updated 16 April 2026 to page…

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The first issue of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies [It’s Official]

Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies:
Very happy to announce that… the long awaited first issue of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is now posted on Intellect’s website! click here to see its contents, [and remember to have your library subscribe…] The…

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Noel Castree: Representing the Anthropocene

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
Love the subtitle: Who will get to speak for everything and how?

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Philippe Artières, Intolérable – Groupe d’information sur les prisons

A collection of the writings of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons, edited by Philippe Artières, was published earlier this year by Gallimard – full details here. I’m not sure how this text relates to an earlier collection Artières was … Continue reading

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Michel Foucault, ‘Médecins, Juges et Sorciers au XVIIe Siècle’ – some thoughts on dating and content

Update August 2026: An updated and expanded version of this post is The Experience of the Demonic and Its Waning: Foucault, Madness and Witchcraft. There is a curious text by Foucault, initially published as «Médecins, juges et sorciers au XVIIe siècle», Médecine de … Continue reading

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Heidegger – Nature, History, State: 1933-1934

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
[update: thanks to Harvey Shoolman for details – the hardback of this is now published; a paperback is due in 2015. The seminars were published in German in the Heidegger Jahrbuch vols 4 and 5].…

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Latour on War and Peace in an Age of Ecological Conflict

(via Anthem)

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Carolyn Pedwell on Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy

Short video of Carolyn Pedwell talking about her forthcoming book Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy (Palgrave 2014).

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