Monthly Archives: June 2014

The work of editing – adding references to translations

Over the past few weeks, around other things, I’ve been editing a translation of a book for a new press. I’ll post details of the book when the website is available. A lot of the work has been checking the … Continue reading

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Volume 32, Issue 3 now out

New issue of Society and Space out.

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Foucault’s Lectures on the Punitive Society XIII (concluding here)

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of March 28th, 1973 The last lecture. Coming soon, summaries of the lectures in Subjectivité et Vérité: Cours au Collège de France. 1980-1981, published a few weeks ago. Foucault refers to the role of the prison,…

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Foucault’s Lectures on the Punitive Society XII (should be XI)

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of March 14th 1973 In my last post on Foucault I referred to my mistake in dates and orders of the lectures I am summarising. I have had to correct my own correction and have…

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Books received – Verso (3 of 3)

Some of these I’ve read already due to Verso’s excellent e-book bundling. I wish more publishers would do this.  

Posted in Books, Etienne Balibar, Frantz Fanon, Jacques Rancière, Slavoj Zizek | 4 Comments

Books received – Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Lefebvre etc. (2 of 3)

The new translation of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil and On the Genealogy of Morality; Lefebvre’s Trois textes pour le theâtre; Virilio’s Open Sky; Trawny’s Heidegger und der Mythos der jüdischen Weltverschwörung; Harvey’s The Urban Experience; the new edition of a … Continue reading

Posted in David Harvey, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Paul Virilio, Politics | 1 Comment

Books received – territory, borders, architecture, government (1 of 3)

Working through the post… Saskia Sassen’s Expulsions and Darshan Vigneswaran’s Territory, Migration and the Evolution of the International System – both to review; Jones and Johnston’s Placing the Border in Everyday Life – which I endorsed; and Lemm and Vatter’s … Continue reading

Posted in Books, Eyal Weizman, Politics, Saskia Sassen, Territory | 1 Comment

Gerry Kearns reviews The Birth of Territory – and a minor note on ‘land’

Gerry Kearns has written a review of The Birth of Territory for Society and Space. My sincere thanks to Gerry, and Veronica della Dora, who commissioned the review. The review is available open access, so I won’t quote from it here. It’s a … Continue reading

Posted in Clarence J. Glacken, David N. Livingstone, Derek Gregory, Society and Space, The Birth of Territory | 3 Comments

Critical Theory books that came out in May

A nice round-up of some recent books – Derrida, Laclau, Lefebvre, Damlé, Flusser, etc. -at critical-theory.com  

Posted in Books, Ernesto Laclau, Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Derrida | 1 Comment

The post mountain

Back in the UK – this was what was awaiting me at work. The two big boxes are from the Verso sale; the rest I’m not yet sure.

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