Monthly Archives: September 2015

The World Post interview with Peter Sloterdijk – ‘Man And Machine Will Fuse Into One Being’

Posted on September 7, 2015 by stuartelden

The World Post interview with Peter Sloterdijk – ‘Man And Machine Will Fuse Into One Being‘.

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Governmentality, Neoliberalism, Economy: strategies for critiques of power (7 – 9 December 2015) | CBS – Copenhagen Business School

Posted on September 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Governmentality, Neoliberalism, Economy: strategies for critiques of power (7 – 9 December 2015) CBS – Copenhagen Business School, Denmark PhD School Doctoral School of Organisation and Management Studies Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy Faculty…

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Boris Porshnev – the two editions of Les soulèvements populaires en France: a book by one of Foucault’s key sources in Théories et institutions pénales

Posted on September 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Russian historian Boris Porshnev is one of Foucault’s key sources for the discussion of the Nu-Pieds revolts of 1639-40 in Théories et institutions pénales. Following my regular practice of reading Foucault’s sources as well as his own work using them, I bought a copy of … Continue reading →

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on September 6, 2015 by stuartelden

My sabbatical rules for writing 10 Steps to PhD Success – a response to the THE post on ‘failure’ 7 critical theory books that came out in August from critical-theory.com – Critchley, Thacker, Alcoff, Krell, et. al. Explorations of Style – … Continue reading →

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Review forum on The Birth of Territory with Legg, Heffernan, McDonagh, Cohen, Sassen, Elden in Journal of Historical Geography (o/a link)

Posted on September 4, 2015 by stuartelden

A review forum on The Birth of Territory is forthcoming in Journal of Historical Geography – Stephen Legg, Mike Heffernan, Briony McDonagh, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Saskia Sassen and a response by me. Steve has posted the preprint on academia.edu Lots of nice things … Continue reading →

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Explorations of Style – a really useful writing resource, now with ‘how to use this blog’ page

Posted on September 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Explorations of Style is a really useful writing resource, and now has a comprehensive ‘how to use this blog‘ page which serves as a kind of table of contents or index.

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Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition (2015)

Posted on September 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition Edited by Perry Zurn, Andrew Dilts Palgrave Macmillan:November 2015 This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Le Groupe d’information sur…

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‘Foucault, Porshnev and the Revolt of the Nu-pieds’, Historical Materialism conference, London, 5-8 November 2015

Posted on September 2, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ll be speaking about ‘Foucault, Porshnev and the Revolt of the Nu-pieds’, at the Historical Materialism conference, to be held in London between 5-8 November 2015. Here’s the abstract: In his recently published lecture course from 1971-72, Théories et institutions pénales, Michel … Continue reading →

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Free the map: Gazing at Belting’s Anthropology of Images from a map studies perspective

Posted on September 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Tania Rossetto on Hans Belting’s An Anthropology of Images: Picture, Medium, Body at the Society and Space open site.

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Philippe Sabot, Le Même et l’Ordre: Michel Foucault et le savoir à l’âge classique

Posted on September 2, 2015 by stuartelden

This looks interesting. Thanks to Graham Burchell for the link: Philippe Sabot, Le Même et l’Ordre: Michel Foucault et le savoir à l’âge classique. Dans Les mots et les choses (1966), Michel Foucault accorde une place centrale à l’analyse de la disposition … Continue reading →

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