Monthly Archives: November 2015

Animal performativity: exploring the lives of donkeys in Botswana – Martha Geiger and Alice J. Hovorka

Commentary and video to accompany a new piece in Society and Space.

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Images of State and Stásis

This gallery contains 16 photos.

Originally posted on Cartographies of the Absolute:
[Talk delivered at Historical Materialism 2015, on a panel with Jason E. Smith and Jessica Whyte on The Ends of Homo Sacer] For fame had rumour’d that a fleet at sea, / Would…

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Society and Space Volume 33 Issue 6 now online

New issue of Society and Space now out…

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“Mourning becomes the law”—Judith Butler from Paris at the Verso website

“Mourning becomes the law“—Judith Butler from Paris at the Verso website [Update: it appears that the page has been removed – the link was previously correct. Please comment if you know the new site. There is an archived version here.]

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Global Discourse book award symposium on The Birth of Territory

I’ve previously linked to the two reviews in the Global Discourse book award symposium on The Birth of Territory, by Jordan Branch and Jeppe Strandsbjerg. My response is now online. It requires subscription, but a preprint is here.

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 6 – working on The Punitive Society, drafting Chapter Three, work on Chapter Six and giving some talks

The bulk of the recent work has been on Chapter Three. This is mainly a discussion of The Punitive Society, along with related materials. The chapter is based on a long review essay I wrote on the French original for Historical Materialism … Continue reading

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Marx & Foucault Lectures, usages, confrontations

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Christian LAVAL, Luca PALTRINIERI, Ferhat TAYLAN, Marx & Foucault: Lectures, usages, confrontations, Éditions La Découverte, 2015 Marx et Foucault : deux œuvres, deux pensées sans lesquelles on ne peut saisir le sens de notre présent.…

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week and a link to Derek Gregory’s piece on Paris

Michel Foucault on refugees – a previously untranslated interview from 1979 Remembering Edward Soja (1940-2015) Foucault’s Last Decade cover Foucault books Verso – Space and Power: Celebrating the life of Edward Soja (1940-2015) Audio recordings of recent talks on Foucault – on Foucault, Porshnev … Continue reading

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Foucault, citizenship and refugees – translations and commentaries at Open Democracy

Foucault’s text ‘The rights and duties of international citizenship‘ is translated at Open Democracy. This statement was read by Foucault at a press conference on June 19, 1981, organized in association with Médecins du monde and Terre des hommes, in the presence of … Continue reading

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Foucault books – reorganisation of webpages

As Foucault’s Last Decade gets closer to publication, and the writing of Foucault: The Birth of Power continues, I’ve reorganised the web pages on this site relating to the two books. A main page, with the description of the two books, is … Continue reading

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