Monthly Archives: September 2017

Clarence Glacken’s ‘Traces on the Rhodian Shore’ at 50: Summaries and reflections

Philip Conway discusses the recent session on Clarence Glacken’s ‘Traces on the Rhodian Shore’ at 50 held at the RGS-IBG conference. He also shares an archive interview between Glacken and Allan Pred.

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Michel Foucault’s acid trip in Death Valley: Interview with Simeon Wade with great archival photos (updated)

Updated 14 November 2017: I’ve just heard that Simeon Wade died in October, making this interview even more important. There is a brief obituary here. My condolences to Wade’s family. Boom California has just published an interview with Simeon Wade, … Continue reading

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Foucault’s Punitive Society and my two Foucault books reviewed in 3am Magazine by Peter Gratton

Foucault’s The Punitive Society lecture course and my Foucault’s Last Decade and Foucault: The Birth of Power are reviewed in 3am Magazine by Peter Gratton. It’s a long, thoughtful and generous review. As well as saying many insightful things about the books reviewed, … Continue reading

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5 Critical Theory books from August 2017

5 Critical Theory books from August 2017 – a useful roundup of Agamben, Kleinberg, Morton, Johnson and Lubin, and Evangelou.

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Le foucaldien. Open access journal (2017)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Le foucaldien. Open access journal along Foucauldian lines Volume 3 – Issue 1 – 2017 About this Journal The peer-reviewed open access journal Le foucaldien publishes interdisciplinary research along the lines of the philosopher and historian Michel Foucault…

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Imagining a territory. Constructions and representations of late medieval Brabant

Originally posted on Imagined territories:
This research-project analyses how the interaction between prince, nobles and urban elites influenced the construction, perception, and representation of a territory. The test case will be the late medieval Duchy of Brabant, which still has…

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The Early Foucault update 11: Working in the Canguilhem archive at the École normale supérieure and at the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève

I’ve been in Paris again for a few days, this time mainly to work at the Canguilhem archive at the Centre d’Archives de Philosophie, d’Histoire et d’Édition des Sciences (CAPHÉS) at the École normale supérieure. The collection comprises multiple boxes … Continue reading

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London Group of Historical Geographers seminar series autumn 2017

London Group of Historical Geographers seminar series autumn 2017 – details here Venue: Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House unless otherwise stated Time: Tuesday 17:15 Convenors: Ruth Craggs (King’s College London), Felix Driver (Royal Holloway, London), Innes … Continue reading

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Sur les toits – full film on prison revolts in early 1970s France now available on Youtube

Nicolas Drolc’s excellent film Sur les toits is now available in full on Youtube. It’s a documentary on the prison revolts in early 1970s France, with some references to the Prisons Information Group Foucault co-founded. The film is in French, with … Continue reading

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Judith Butler interviewed by Aaron Aquilina and Kurt Borg in CounterText

Judith Butler is interviewed by Aaron Aquilina and Kurt Borg in CounterText (requires subscription). It’s a fascinating interview with a particular focus on her interests in literature, especially Kafka, and then moves to a discussion of her career trajectory and relation … Continue reading

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