Monthly Archives: June 2015

Publishing in Top Academic Journals – Notes From the Masterclass With Claudia Aradau

Publishing in Top Academic Journals – Notes From the Masterclass With Claudia Aradau. Last week, the journal New Perspectives and the Centre for European Security of the Institute of International Relations had the pleasure to host two exiting events featuring Dr. Claudia Aradau, a Reader … Continue reading

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Chronicles from an eternal present. A review of “Critiquer Foucault”, edited by Daniel Zamora

Chronicles from an eternal present. A review of “Critiquer Foucault”, edited by Daniel Zamora – part I, part II.

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Foucault’s 1983 seminar at Berkeley – tracing the people in the ‘cowboy hat’ photograph

In Didier Eribon’s biography of Foucault, there is a picture of Foucault in a cowboy hat, together with Paul Rabinow and some students at Berkeley. The hat was a gift from the students. This group met in parallel with the … Continue reading

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Philosophy, Politics, and History in the Thought of Gramsci, 18-19 June 2015. King’s College London

Philosophy, Politics, and History in the Thought of Gramsci, 18-19 June 2015. King’s College London.

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Babette Babich, “Heidegger’s Black Night: The Nachlass & its Wirkungsgeschichte” on academia.edu

Babette Babich, “Heidegger’s Black Night: The Nachlass & its Wirkungsgeschichte” on academia.edu – another essay from the forthcoming collection Ingo Farin and Jeff Malpas, eds., Reading Heidegger’s Black Notebooks 1931-1941 (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2016).

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The Anomie of the Earth: Philosophy, Politics, and Autonomy in Europe and the Americas

The Anomie of the Earth: Philosophy, Politics, and Autonomy in Europe and the Americas – new collection from Duke University Press. Includes essays by Sandro Mezzadra, Walter  D. Mignolo, Benjamin Noys and others. The contributors to The Anomie of the Earth explore the convergences and resonances between Autonomist … Continue reading

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Martin Heidegger’s 1934-35 course Hölderlin’s Hymns “Germania” and “The Rhine” reviewed at NDPR by Richard Polt

The translation of Martin Heidegger’s 1934-35 lecture course Hölderlin’s Hymns “Germania” and “The Rhine”, is reviewed at NDPR by Richard Polt. The translators are William McNeill and Julia Ireland, also responsible for the translation of Heidegger’s course on Hölderlin’s Hymn ‘The Ister’. Polt confronts the … Continue reading

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Reviews of Foucault’s first three Collège de France courses, and other pieces at Berfrois

The piece I published yesterday was on Foucault’s second lecture course at the Collège de France. I have also published reviews of the first and third, which form an initial triptych on the linked themes of measure, inquiry and examination. … Continue reading

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Thinking Spatial Practices with & against law – Birkbeck, 19 June 2015

Thinking Spatial Practices with & against law An Interdisciplinary Workshop Funded by: Birkbeck Institute for Social Research Birkbeck School of Law, University of London, 19th June 2015 Birkbeck College, Malet Street│Room 414 Across various disciplines, a resurgent interest in questions of spatial justice is prompted by … Continue reading

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Notes toward a critical history of cartography, part 1

Originally posted on Open Geography:
In the past few months I’ve agreed to develop a course called “A Critical History of Cartography” for our department’s new Masters and Certificate in Digital Mapping. This initiative, which we call New Maps Plus, will…

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