Monthly Archives: February 2018

The Society of Captives Today: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary – University of Leicester 27-28 June 2018

Originally posted on Prof Dominique Moran:
A conference  is being co-organised by the University of Cambridge and the University of Leicester, to mark the 60th anniversary of the publication of Gresham Sykes’s The Society of Captives. Click here for details. The…

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Radical Philosophy is relaunched as open access journal

One of the few journals that I have read continually since my days as a postgraduate, Radical Philosophy is now relaunched as open access journal. Not only is all new content free-to-access, so too is the rich archive of material … Continue reading

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Roger-Pol Droit on Foucault’s Les Aveux de la chair

Roger-Pol Droit on Foucault’s Les Aveux de la chair – “Foucault, les mots et les sexes” in Les Echos. There is relatively little about the book itself, and much of this sets the scene through Foucault’s career as a whole. … Continue reading

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John Lechte’s overview of Kristeva’s work

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
At the TLS.

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Launch event for Foucault’s Les Aveux de la chair – Paris, 17 February 2017

Launch event for Foucault’s Les Aveux de la chair – Paris, 17 February 2017 (via Vrin)

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Frantz Fanon, Alienation and Freedom – translated collection of previously unpublished writings forthcoming from Bloomsbury

Frantz Fanon, Alienation and Freedom – forthcoming from Bloomsbury Since the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanon’s work has been deeply significant for generations of intellectuals and activists from the 60s to the present day. Alienation … Continue reading

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Subjects of Desire: Foucault’s ‘Aveux de la chair’ and the Roots of Modern Governmentality (2018)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Daniele Lorenzini, “Subjects of Desire: Foucault’s ‘Aveux de la chair’ and the Roots of Modern Governmentality” Research Seminar in Post-Kantian European Philosophy Tue, Feb 6, 2018 – 5:30pm – 7:30pm (S0.11) University of Warwick, Department…

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‘Michel Foucault: The Last Interview and Other Conversations’ on ‘indefinite hold’ – anyone know more?

Last year I started seeing notices for a book entitled Michel Foucault: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (for example, see Google Books or Rizzoli Bookstore). Online bookstores list it but do not stock it, and Worldcat suggests no libraries have … Continue reading

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