Monthly Archives: January 2015

Medieval Hackers calls attention to the use of certain vocabulary terms in the Middle Ages and today: commonness, openness, and freedom. Today we associate this language with computer hackers, some of whom believe that information, from literature to the code … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Prof Dominique Moran:
My new book ‘Carceral Geography: Spaces and Practices of Incarceration’ is now out with Ashgate. The ‘punitive turn’ has brought about new ways of thinking about geography and the state, and has highlighted spaces…

A new commentary at Society & Space – the first of a few on recent events.

2014 in review – talks, publications and writing CFP: Deleuze and Guattari in the Anthropocene – special issue Deleuze Studies Foucault on Kant’s ‘What is Enlightenment?’ – a mini bibliography Latour’s obituary for Ulrich Beck Foucault on Parrēsia – translation … Continue reading →

The second part of a discussion of Foucault and social security, this time on health.

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
The farce of UCU’s “resistance” to universities’ attack on employees’ pensions is now reaching its inevitable climax (see Part I, Part II and Part III for background). Readers may recall that the crisis…