Monthly Archives: October 2015

The Topographical Imagination of Jameson, Baudrillard, and Foucault (2015)

Posted on October 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michael James Rizza The Topographical Imagination of Jameson, Baudrillard, and Foucault, Noesis/The Davies Group, 2015 Notice on author’s blog An interview with the author, Michael James Rizza, in Hyperrhiz 12 This in-depth discussion of several…

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New issue of ACME now out, including Neil Smith’s last conference presentation

Posted on October 7, 2015 by stuartelden

A new issue of ACME is now out, including Neil Smith’s last conference presentation (all open access). Neil Smith’s piece is entitled ‘The Future is Radically Open’, and was presented in Paris in September 2012, shortly before he died. It’s … Continue reading →

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Deleuze and Foucault’s Political Philosophy Conference

Posted on October 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on My Desiring-Machines:
At Purdue, November 13-14, 2015. The program is here. I’m not sure how I missed earlier announcements about this, but I’m going to do everything I can to get there.

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2015 Millennium Conference, LSE, 17-18 October 2015 – Bruno Latour as keynote

Posted on October 6, 2015 by stuartelden

2015 Millennium Conference, “Failure and Denial in World Politics”, LSE, 17-18 October 2015 – more details here. Programme:  DRAFT 2015 Millennium Conference Programme Call for Papers:   2015 Millennium Conference: Failure and Denial in World Politics Conference Theme:   International relations … Continue reading →

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Slavoj Žižek mini course at Birkbeck – Hegelian Battles

Posted on October 6, 2015 by stuartelden

Slavoj Žižek mini course at Birkbeck – Hegelian Battles. December 2-4, 2015. Free for students and Birkbeck staff, £10 per lecture for others. Everyone needs to register in advance. The battle for Hegel goes on – new interpretations are emerging … Continue reading →

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The challenge of saying ‘no’ to academic requests

Posted on October 5, 2015 by stuartelden

Last year Rob Kitchin had a short post on his blog ‘The View from the Blue House’: Over the past couple of years I’ve been getting more and more invites to do work that extends beyond my usual day to day … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault, Brown, Golder, Ashgate, etc.

Posted on October 5, 2015 by stuartelden

A pile of recently bought, earned or complimentary books: Foucault’s The Punitive Society, Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos, Ben Golder’s Foucault and the Politics of Rights, four books in recompense for review work for Ashgate, and recent issues of Theory, Culture & Society and Transactions … Continue reading →

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History and Theory special forum on Foucault and Neoliberalism

Posted on October 5, 2015 by stuartelden

History and Theory have a special forum on Foucault and Neoliberalism (requires subscription). Thanks to Timothy Johnson and others for the alert.

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The Question of the Human in Social Theory and Social Research – 25th November 2015, University of Warwick

Posted on October 5, 2015 by stuartelden

Posted on behalf of Mark Carrigan: 25th November 2015, 11:00 to 17:00 WT0.05, University of Warwick This workshop and symposium will explore the, mostly implicit, conceptions of the human, humanity and human nature that underpin various contemporary conceptions of social life. … Continue reading →

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Cahiers marxistes-léninistes

Posted on October 5, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on My Desiring-Machines:
Selections from the journal (published by Althusser’s students) are available here. (Thanks to Rethinking Marxism‘s Facebook feed for the link)

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