Monthly Archives: July 2015

Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault and Fourquet’s discussions of ‘Les équipements du pouvoir’

Keith Harris has been saying a bit about Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault and Fourquet’s discussions of ‘Les équipements du pouvoir’. He first shared his reading notes on Guattari’s contributions to a discussion with Foucault and Fourquet; and has followed up today with … Continue reading

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Draft entry for a Michel Serres Dictionary: Le Système de Leibniz et ses modèles mathématiques (1968)

Originally posted on Christopher Watkin:
Le Système de Leibniz was published during the heady anni mirabiles of late 1960s French thought. It appeared in 1968, the same year as Roland Barthes’s short essay ‘The Death of the Author’, one year after…

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Critical Theory’s eight books that came out in June 2015 New book from Anna Tsing: The Mushroom at the End of the World: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins Thomas Nail, The Figure of the Migrant – forthcoming from Stanford … Continue reading

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Leverhulme Trust Network on Project on Indeterminate and Changing Environments: Law, the Anthropocene, and the World (the ICE LAW Project)

Phil Steinberg has the good news that the Leverhulme Trust has funded the Project on Indeterminate and Changing Environments: Law, the Anthropocene, and the World (the ICE LAW Project). I’ll be leading the subproject on territory. Congratulations to Phil and Kate … Continue reading

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Nick Vaughan-Williams, Europe’s Border Crisis: Biopolitical Security and Beyond – forthcoming from Oxford University Press

Nick Vaughan-Williams, Europe’s Border Crisis: Biopolitical Security and Beyond – forthcoming from Oxford University Press [update: published 1 October 2015]. Europe’s Border Crisis investigates dynamics in EU border security and migration management and advances a path-breaking framework for thought, judgment, and action in … Continue reading

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Thomas Nail, The Figure of the Migrant – forthcoming from Stanford University Press

Thomas Nail, The Figure of the Migrant – forthcoming from Stanford University Press. I provide one of the endorsements. The book is due out in September. In the meantime, a short interview on migrant politics related to the themes of the … Continue reading

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ANTI-CRISIS REVIEWED

A new review at the Society and Space open site.

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New book from Anna Tsing: The Mushroom at the End of the World: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins

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The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, coming from Princeton this September, details here. Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world—and a weed…

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Judith Butler Parting Ways – A Jewish Philosophy Symposium

Thanks to dmfant for this link to a symposium on Judith Butler’s Parting Ways. jewish philosophy place This symposium on Parting Ways is just out in the print version of the journal Political Theology. It includes contributions by Sarah Hammerschlag, … Continue reading

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