Monthly Archives: March 2016

Autumn and Winter 2016-17 talks – Foucault, Shakespeare and Terrain

My attempt at keeping the diary clear of talks between January and September this year is just about holding. The last seminar I gave was on Foucault and health research and activism in January, and with the exception of three small … Continue reading

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Michel Foucault, Language, Madness, and Desire: On Literature reviewed at NDPR

Also at NDPR, Michel Foucault, Language, Madness, and Desire: On Literature, is reviewed by Mark Olssen. I have a review of this collection, written some time ago, which is still forthcoming.

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Peter Gratton, Speculative Realism: Problems and Prospects reviewed at NDPR

Peter Gratton, Speculative Realism: Problems and Prospects, is reviewed by Rick Dolphijn, at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (open access).  

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Judith Butler, Tanner lectures at Yale on Interpreting Non-Violence

“Interpreting Non-Violence” will be the theme of the 2016 Tanner Lectures on Human Values, which will be delivered by Judith Butler, a noted philosopher and gender theorist. Her first talk — “Why Preserve the Life of the Other?” — will … Continue reading

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New Materialism: Politics, Aesthetics, Science video – University of Westminster 10 March 2016

University of Westminster 10 March 2016 – New Materialism: Politics, Aesthetics, Science event video New Materialism is currently having a profound effect across disciplines. Rooted in post-marxist thinking, but spreading out on the flat ontology of networks, objects and bodies, … Continue reading

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Publishing a monograph: interview with Stylish Academic

Originally posted on Dr Charlotte Mathieson:
Following the publication of my monograph a few months ago, I recently spoke to Tee at Stylish Academic about the process of writing and getting published as an early career researcher. We talked about…

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Foucault and the Political Party (2015)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault and the Political Party 20th March 2015 | 11:00 – 11:45 Audio, podcast on the Voice Republic site Marcelo Hoffman holds a PhD from the University of Denver, and has taught at…

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Michel Serres’s The Parasite: A Reader’s Guide. 148 page document to download

Originally posted on Christopher Watkin:
Over the past few weeks I have been working my way through Michel Serres’s 1980 Le Parasite: a dense, poetic, brilliant text that seeks to tear down and rebuild the way we think about everything. In…

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Call for Papers – The Gentrification of the Political

Originally posted on The Gentrification of the Political:
‘The Gentrification of the Political’ A Workshop at the University of Kent School of Politics & International Relations 6th & 7th June 2016 Gentrification, as an urban phenomenon, is one of the…

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London Review of International Law annual lecture 2017

I will be giving the London Review of International Law annual lecture in 2017. As the invitation said: Just to put this in some kind of context, the previous Annual Lectures have been delivered by Judith Butler (‘Human Shields’), Sheila Jasanoff … Continue reading

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