Monthly Archives: June 2015

Foucault, About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980

A few more details about Michel Foucault, About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980, translated by Graham Burchell, are available at the University of Chicago Press site. Much of the material in this … Continue reading

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Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Art: The Hotho Transcript reviewed at NDPR

G. F. W. Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Art: The Hotho Transcript of the 1823 Berlin Lectures, is reviewed at NDPR.

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Geography blogs – a list, and a discussion of ‘why blog?’

Sam Kinsley has compiled a list of Geographers that blog, and followed this with a post questioning their focus, an excerpt of which was: It was a surprise to me how quite a few of those blogs, with some honourable … Continue reading

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Manuel DeLanda’s Essays on Assemblage Theory – forthcoming in the EUP Speculative Realism series

Manuel DeLanda’s Essays on Assemblage Theory – forthcoming in the EUP Speculative Realism series. Graham Harman has more details, and news of a forthcoming dialogue with DeLanda.

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Journal of Architecture – various reviews of books by and on Henri Lefebvre

I’ve mentioned a couple of these before when online, but the latest issue of The Journal of Architecture has various review essays on books by and on Henri Lefebvre, including Rhythmanalysis, Critique of Everyday Life, and Urban Revolution Now.

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Books received – several volumes of the RSC Shakespeare from Palgrave

Several volumes of the RSC Shakespeare series in recompense for review work from Palgrave Macmillan. While I prefer the Arden third series for the texts and apparatus, these editions have useful introductions, especially on performance history, so I’ve been building … Continue reading

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Interview with Joseph Masco by Sonia Grant

Fascinating interview with Joseph Masco at the Society and Space open site.

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Foucault’s Heterotopia and Benjamin’s Arcade Project – a discussion by Peter Johnson

“Heterotopia and Benjamin’s Arcade Project” – a discussion by Peter Johnson at Heterotopian Studies. I have been asked whether I think there is any productive link between heterotopia and Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project. I went back to Benjamin’s inspirational book … Continue reading

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Foucault and the Government of Disability (2015)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Shelley Tremain, Editor, Foucault and the Government of Disability, University of Michigan, 2015 Enlarged and Revised Edition An up-to-date edition of a foundational collection Foucault and the Government of Disability considers the continued relevance of…

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David Farrell Krell, Phantoms of the Other: Four Generations of Derrida’s Geschlecht reviewed at NDPR

David Farrell Krell, Phantoms of the Other: Four Generations of Derrida’s Geschlecht reviewed at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews by N. Gabriel Martin. My own review of this great book is forthcoming with Derrida Today.

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