Monthly Archives: February 2015

Justin Clemens reviews Kate Schechter’s ‘Illusions of a Future: Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire’

A new review at the Society and Space open site.

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Frantz Fanon: Concerning the Psychoanalysis and Cosmopolitanism of Violence – Warwick, 17 March 2015

Frantz Fanon: Concerning the Psychoanalysis and Cosmopolitanism of Violence 18th March 2015, 1pm to 7pm University of Warwick (A0.28, Millburn House) Frantz Fanon, the son of Martinique who first fought for colonial France in World War Two and then against … Continue reading

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 20

Since I arrived in Melbourne I’ve been working on the complete manuscript of the Foucault book, and I’ve made use of the libraries of Monash University, State Library of Victoria and University of Melbourne. One thing that the University of … Continue reading

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Terrain, Volume, Drones – abstract for my keynote to Power and Space in the Drone Age conference

Update: unfortunately I’ve had to withdraw from this event. Here’s the abstract for my keynote lecture to the Power and Space in the Drone Age conference, 27-28 August 2015, Université de Neuchâtel: Terrain, Volume, Drones This paper is part of a wider, … Continue reading

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Poster for University of Sydney talk on “Foucault’s Third Course on Governmentality”

I posted details of all my talks in Sydney over the next few weeks yesterday. A very nice poster for the University of Sydney talk has just been produced.

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Alex Papadopoulos on Alexis Tsipras’s speech to the Greek Parliament

A new contribution to the Society and Space forum on the Greek elections, from Alex Papadopoulos.

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Foucault, “The Politics of [Soviet] Crime” – a request for help from Italian readers

[update: I have a copy of the Italian text, but have also now found the full and unpublished French original transcript at IMEC. I don’t need the text mentioned below any longer, but have kept the post up as the … Continue reading

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Talks in Sydney on Foucault, Territory, Shakespeare and Geopolitics in February and March

I’ll be talking about and discussing aspects of most of my current and recent work in Sydney in late February and mid-March. 26 February, 4pm, “Foucault’s Third Course on Governmentality”, Darlington Centre Boardroom, Department of Political Economy/Centre for International Security … Continue reading

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Heidegger Black Notebooks, Vol IV 1942-48 – soon out and review

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
The fourth book of Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ is due out very soon – Anmerkungen II-V. Again, there is a missing notebook in the sequence. The volume is not on the Klostermann site, but is on…

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Foucault, La grande étrangère: À propos de literature forthcoming in English

Foucault’s La grande étrangère: À propos de literature is forthcoming in English translation with University of Minnesota Press as Language, Madness and Desire: On Literature, scheduled for May 2015. As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches … Continue reading

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