Monthly Archives: May 2018

Not talking in Warwick and Leuven on Foucault

Since I’ve mentioned that there would be talks in Warwick and Leuven on Foucault later this month, I should now say that neither will be happening, or at least not yet. Details of all future talks are here, and I’ll … Continue reading

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From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light, edited by Veronica Strang, Tim Edensor, and Joanna Puckering

  From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light, edited by Veronica Strang, Tim Edensor, and Joanna Puckering – now out with Routledge. What is a lighthouse? What does it mean? What does it do? This book shows how exchanging knowledge … Continue reading

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Les aveux de la chair: Comment la libido a-t-elle été inventée ? (2018)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Comment la libido a-t-elle été inventée ? Les aveux de la chair podcast Comment notre sexualité en est-elle venu à faire la vérité sur nous-mêmes ? Et comment est-elle devenue coupable à travers les aveux…

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Bibliography of Foucault’s shorter writings in English translation (2018)

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Editor: Richard Lynch has updated his bibliography of Foucault’s shorter writings in English translation. You can find the bibliography on the resources pages of Foucault News. You can also find other bibliographies on the resources…

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Couze Venn, After Capital – now out with Sage

Couze Venn, After Capital – now out with Sage The present crisis of capitalism has a history. A history of the private accumulation of wealth through property regimes which allow increasing commodification and the privatisation of resources: from land to … Continue reading

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Canguilhem, Œuvres complètes Tome V : Histoire des sciences, épistémologie, commémorations 1966-1995 – delayed again (now September 2018)

Georges Canguilhem, Œuvres complètes Tome V : Histoire des sciences, épistémologie, commémorations 1966-1995 was originally due to appear in January 2018. It has slipped three times – to March, to May and is now listed for September. Quelque cent vingt écrits publiés … Continue reading

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Katherine Gibson: First Take Back the Night, Now Take Back the Economy (video)

Katherine Gibson’s (Western Sydney University) inaugural Women in Geographical and Earth Sciences Lecture at the University of Glasgow (March 2018). First Take Back the Night, Now Take Back the Economy: Feminist and Queer Strategies for Imagining and Enacting Other Possible Worlds via … Continue reading

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Books received – Delaporte, de Beauvoir, Barrett, Douglas, Shakespeare, Peters, Steinberg and Stratford, Radical Philosophy

A mixed pile of things – François Delaporte, Nature’s Second Kingdom; Lisa Appignanesi’s biography of Simone de Beauvoir; Chris Barrett, Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety; Gordon Douglas, The Help-Yourself City; the CUP edition of All’s Well … Continue reading

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