Monthly Archives: February 2015

Contesting the Arctic: Rethinking Politics in the Circumpolar North by Philip E. Steinberg, Jeremy Tasch, Hannes Gerhardt

Contesting the Arctic: Rethinking Politics in the Circumpolar North by Philip E. Steinberg, Jeremy Tasch and Hannes Gerhardt has been published by I.B. Tauris. As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty … Continue reading

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Redlined Comparison Of The Eurogroup Draft Varoufakis Was Ready To Sign, And The Draft He Rejected

Originally posted on Greek Left Review:
by Tyler Durden’s published at http://www.zerohedge.com Just like last week, the reason for the bitterly acrimonious collapse of today’s Eurogroup attempt to resolve the Greek crisis, was in the wording of the proposed final Eurogroup…

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Political Geography Specialty Group AAG Preconference Preliminary Schedule

If you’re going to the Association of American Geographers conference in Chicago, this may be of interest: The PGSG 28th Annual Preconference schedule is now posted here (preliminary). You will find more details about the conference venue, etc. here.

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History of the Present – the Berkeley newsletter on Foucault’s work online

[Update September 2023 – thanks to a comment below for saying these are available via the Wayback Machine: 1; 2; 3; 4 Update Nov 2018 – these links appear to be dead. Please comment if they become live again or … Continue reading

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“The German Ideology Never Took Place”: Terrell Carver

The German Ideology (Die Deutsche Ideologie) by Karl Marx and Friedrich (or Frederick) Engels has a very well established scholarly and interpretive reception. However, this dates from long after the authors’ deaths (in 1883 and 1895, respectively), and began with…

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Colin Gordon, Notes on some papers (2015)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Notes on some papers uploaded on Academia.edu Colin Gordon, 11 February 2015. All but one of these uploads are about Michel Foucault’s History of Madness and/or issues relating to madness and psychiatry. There is some…

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Top posts this week on Progressive Geographies

Talks in Sydney on Foucault, Territory, Shakespeare and Geopolitics in February and March Affect Theory Conference: Worldings / Tensions / Futures – October 2015 in Lancaster, PA Poster for University of Sydney talk on “Foucault’s Third Course on Governmentality” Deleuze’s … Continue reading

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Heidegger and the Global Age – conference at Sussex, 29-30 Oct 2015

Heidegger and the Global Age, 29-30 October 2015 at the Centre for Advanced International Theory, University of Sussex, in Brighton, UK Full details on their website – keynotes include Joanna Hodge, Laurence Hemming, Fred Dallmayr and Peg Birmingham.

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Foucault’s The Punitive Society – forthcoming in English in August 2015

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Foucault’s 1973 lectures On The Punitive Society are forthcoming in English in June August 2015. I have a review of the French text at Berfrois (open access); and a review essay forthcoming in Historical Materialism (preprint here). These…

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Théories et Institutions Penales – Foucault’s 1971-72 course available to pre-order on Amazon.fr

Foucault’s 1971-72 lecture course, Théories et Institutions Pénales – the last to be published – is available to pre-order on Amazon.fr. Seuil does not have it listed on their site yet. It is again edited by Bernard Harcourt – who did the … Continue reading

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