Monthly Archives: September 2017

Nicholas de Genova (ed.), The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering

Nicholas de Genova (ed.), The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering now out with Duke University Press. In recent years the borders of Europe have been perceived as being besieged by a staggering refugee and migration crisis. … Continue reading

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Foucault in Warsaw (2017)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Foucault in Warsaw, Durieux.eu blog, 31 August 2017.  Le Soir spends ample space on an article by Maya Szymanowska about a new Polish publication by sociologist Remigiusz Ryzinski, ‘Foucault W Warszawie’ (Foucault in Warsaw – no translations yet).…

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Extract from Michel Serres’s The Birth of Physics (open access), with whole book forthcoming

The same issue of Parrhesia also includes an extract from Michel Serres’s The Birth of Physics. The translation is by David Webb, with an introduction by Bill Ross. The entire book is forthcoming in a new edition from Rowman and Littlefield International. … Continue reading

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Nicole Loraux, “War in the Family”, translated by Adam Kotsko (open access)

Nicole Loraux’s essay “War in the Family” has been translated by Adam Kotsko, and is open access in the new issue of Parrhesia. As Adam writes, “This previously untranslated essay is discussed at length in the first half of Agamben’s … Continue reading

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Books received – Evangelou, Gratton, Girard, Webster, Shakespeare?

Some books received in recompense for review work for Palgrave and Bloomsbury – King Edward III, Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, Girard’s Violence and the Sacred, Peter Gratton’s Speculative Realism and Angelos Evangelou’s Philosophizing Madness from Nietzsche to Derrida. Although … Continue reading

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New Perspectives essay by Peter Sloterdijk on ‘On Pseudonymous Politics: Regarding Implicit and Explicit Misconceptions of Democracy’ (open access)

New Perspectives has just published an open access essay by Peter Sloterdijk on ‘On Pseudonymous Politics: Regarding Implicit and Explicit Misconceptions of Democracy’ Editor Benjamin Tallis writes: ‘On Pseudonymous Politics: Regarding Implicit and Explicit Misconceptions of Democracy’ is an intervention … Continue reading

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Kostas Axelos in Iran’s Shargh Daily newspaper, with a translation of my interview with him

There is a feature on Kostas Axelos in Iran’s Shargh Daily newspaper (pdf here). It was put together by Sahand Sattari, and includes a translation of my interview with him which appeared in 2005 in Radical Philosophy. The English version … Continue reading

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The Southern Journal of Philosophy – Spindel supplement on Critical Theories of the Present (open access)

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
The proceedings of last year’s Spindel Conference at the University of Memphis on the topic “Critical Histories of the Present” have now been published in The Southern Journal of Philosophy. Edited by Verena Erlenbusch, it…

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