Monthly Archives: June 2015

Peter Kirwan on the Shakespeare Apocrypha at Warwick’s Sidelights on Shakespeare

Fascinating talk at Warwick today by Peter Kirwan on “The Incomplete Works of William Shakespeare: Handling the Apocrypha“, as part of the Sidelights on Shakespeare lecture programme. The talk related to his just published book Shakespeare and the Idea of Apocrypha: Negotiating … Continue reading

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Books received – Free Will, Shakespeare’s Storms and Discourse Theory and Political Analysis

In recompense for review work for Manchester University Press – Richard Wilson, Free Will: Art and power on Shakespeare’s stage; Gwilym Jones, Shakespeare’s Storms and Discourse Theory and Political Analysis.

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Kostas Axelos, Introduction to a Future Way of Thought: On Marx and Heidegger – out in June 2015 from Meson Press

Kostas Axelos, Introduction to a Future Way of Thought: On Marx and Heidegger – out in June 2015 from Meson Press. The book was translated by Kenneth Mills, and edited and introduced by me. It will be open access online … Continue reading

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Major conference on Foucault at the Collège de France, Cerisy-la-Salle 11-18 June 2015

Major conference on Foucault at the Collège de France, Cerisy-la-Salle 11-18 June 2015, with lots of good speakers including Judith Revel and Pierre Macherey. Les leçons de Michel Foucault au Collège de France, prononcées entre 1971 et 1984, constituent une somme … Continue reading

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Michel Serres app now available on Google Play

Originally posted on Christopher Watkin:
I’ve written a little app to aggregate information from around the web (news, Twitter, Youtube, Google Scholar, Google Trends…) on Michel Serres. It’s nothing flash but it allows me quickly to scan various sources to…

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Books received – Foucault, Toscano and Kinkle, Edkins, Keighren, Withers and Bell

Travels into Print: Exploration, Writing and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859, sent by the publisher; Jenny Edkins, Face Politics, which I endorsed; Toscano and Kinkle’s Cartographies of the Absolute; the first and second editions of Foucault’s Naissance de la clinique (1963 and … Continue reading

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Top posts this week on Progressive Geographies

Foucault’s 1983 seminar at Berkeley – tracing the people in the ‘cowboy hat’ photograph Judith Butler, Notes towards a Performative Theory of Assembly – forthcoming from Harvard UP How Do We Write? Two reflections on ‘dysfunctional academic writing’ Where to start with reading … Continue reading

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Streetlife symposium – University of Kent, 15 Sept 2015

Posted on behalf of Phil Hubbard – Streetlife symposium, University of Kent, 15 Sept 201 The street is a social space like no other. It has always been a key laboratory for studies of social life, from the roots of contemporary urban … Continue reading

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Shakespeare and Waste – audio recordings of the seminar at Kingston University

Shakespeare and Waste – audio recordings of the seminar at Kingston University. Kingston Shakespeare Seminar (KiSS), part of the London Graduate School, announces the launch of Kingston Shakespeare Seminar in Theory (KiSSiT): a series of seminars and conferences for postgraduate … Continue reading

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The Community You Have, The Community You Need: Building an Online Accountability Group

Originally posted on The Accidental Philologist:
(This is based on a presentation I gave to a working group on graduate student writing support at the university where I did my doctorate. Another blog post arising from the discussion was written…

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