Monthly Archives: January 2018

Adam Kotsko, Political Theology: A Reading List

Adam Kotsko, Political Theology: A Reading List Some Facebook friends have asked me about my personal “canon” of political theology, and I decided it would make a good idea for a blog post. This list, like any attempt at a … Continue reading

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Foucault at the Movies (Columbia UP 2018), translated and edited by Clare O’Farrell, edited Patrice Maniglier and Dork Zabunyan

Foucault at the Movies (Columbia UP 2018), translated and edited by Clare O’Farrell, French edition edited by Patrice Maniglier and Dork Zabunyan. Forthcoming in July, this is a translation of Foucault va au cinéma (2011). Michel Foucault’s work on film, … Continue reading

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Gregynog Ideas Lab VII – International Politics summer school, 8 – 13 July 2018, Newtown, Wales

We are delighted to be able to announce that the Gregynog Ideas Lab VII will take place from 8 – 13 July 2018 in Newtown, Wales, UK. Set up in 2012, the Gregynog Ideas Lab is a unique opportunity for … Continue reading

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Video: Angela Davis — Abolition Feminism: Theories and Practices for Our Time

In December, Angela Davis delivered the annual Nicos Poulantzas Memorial Lecture at the Nicos Poulantzas Institute in Athens. In the talk, Davis recounts the historical background to the development of the anti-racist, Marxist feminisms she calls “abolition feminism,” and unpacks some … Continue reading

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Forms of Living book series with Fordham University Press

Forms of Living book series with Fordham University Press Edited by Stefanos Geroulanos, New York University, and Todd E. Meyers, New York University-Shanghai In the introduction to Knowledge of Life, Georges Canguilhem writes that knowledge and life do not assume a … Continue reading

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Foucault on Power and Government (2016)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Paul Patton, Foucault on Power and Government Full text available on academia.edu Abstract: Foucault’s lectures in 1976 open with the statement of an intellectual crisis. They proceed to a series of questions about the nature…

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Books received – Connolly, Scarry, Elborough & Gordon, Lefebvre, Bracke

William Connolly, Aspirational Fascism: The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism; Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain; Travis Elborough and Helen Gordon, Being a Writer; Henri Lefebvre, Key Writings and Astrid Bracke, Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel. The … Continue reading

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Legal terrain: the political materiality of territory – LRIL lecture now published

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
‘Legal terrain—the political materiality of territory’ – my London Review of International Law lecture is now published. The journal requires subscription, but if you’d like a copy and can’t access through an institution, please email…

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Times Higher Education letter on Shrinking Pensions in UK universities

There is a letter in the Times Higher Education about ‘Shrinking Pensions’. I was pleased to be asked to be one of the signatories. If you are a UCU member in the UK, and haven’t yet voted in the pension … Continue reading

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Martijn Konings, Capital and Time For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason – now out with Stanford University Press

Martijn Konings, Capital and Time For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason – now out with Stanford University Press Critics of capitalist finance tend to focus on its speculative character. Our financial markets, they lament, encourage irresponsible bets on the … Continue reading

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