Monthly Archives: April 2015

Making Writing Visible – strategies and poster

Making Writing Visible – strategies and poster at Jo van Every’s site. Would you put a sign on your door? What feelings does that bring up? Are your gremlins worried about what would happen? What are their concerns? Would it … Continue reading

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Lauren Berlant Society and Space lecture at the AAG

Final details of the Society and Space lecture at the AAG meeting in Chicago.

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Charlotte Epstein on The Birth of Territory at Progress in Political Economy

Progress in Political Economy have posted one of the papers on my book The Birth of Territory from a workshop in Sydney. My thanks to Charlotte Epstein for the thoughtful engagement, and Adam David Morton at PPE for posting this. Last month … Continue reading

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Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution

Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution – recently published by Zone Books. Neoliberal rationality — ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, and culture — remakes everything and everyone in the image of homo oeconomicus. … Continue reading

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Foucault and ancient polizei: a genealogy of the military pastorate (2015)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Kevin Scott Jobe, Foucault and ancient polizei: a genealogy of the military pastorate, Journal of Political Power, Vol. 8, No. 1, 21, 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2015.1011378 Full PDF here Abstract While Foucault claimed that biopower, as a…

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Imitation, Contagion, Suggestion: Rethinking the Social – conference at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, 28–29 May 2015

Imitation, Contagion, Suggestion: Rethinking the Social – conference at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, 28–29 May 2015. Full details here.

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Volume 33, Issue 2 now out

New issue of Society and Space now out

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Books received – Connolly, Rickels, Sartre, Casey

Some more books from UMP – older books by Connolly, Rickels, Sartre and Casey.

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Books received – GIA, Derrida, Vora, Lorimer, le Doeuff, Braver, Transactions

  Publications by the Groupe Information Asiles and Groupe Information Santé; Derrida’s Cinders, Vora’s Life Support, Lorimer’s Wildlife in the Anthropocene, le Doeuff’s Hipparchia’s Choice; Braver’s Heidegger; and the new issue of Transactions. The UMP books and the Braver are … Continue reading

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Amanda Rogers reviews Carolyn Pedwell’s Affective Relations at the Society and Space open site

Amanda Rogers reviews Carolyn Pedwell’s book Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy (Palgrave Macmillan 2014) at the Society and Space open site. Pedwell’s rich study examines the diverse ways in which empathy is mobilised – from political speeches that uphold neoliberalism, … Continue reading

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