Monthly Archives: April 2019

David Beer, Portraits of a Pulsating Life: Georg Simmel’s Encounter with Rembrandt – at Berfrois

David Beer, Portraits of a Pulsating Life: Georg Simmel’s Encounter with Rembrandt – at Berfrois Georg Simmel’s Concluding Thoughts: Worlds, Lives, Fragments is now out with Palgrave. In May 1913, German sociologist Georg Simmel wrote to the poet and essayist Margarete … Continue reading

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Books received – Latour, Valverde, Kantorowicz, and the two versions of Foucault’s L’ordre du discours

Bruno Latour’s Où atterrir?, Mariana Valverde’s study of Michel Foucault, now in paperback, and Ernst Kantorowicz, Oeuvres – which I mainly got for the biography by Alain Boureau. Also in the pile is a second-hand copy of Foucault’s L’ordre du discours – and … Continue reading

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Martín Arboleda — Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction Under Late Capitalism (Verso, forthcoming January 2020)

Originally posted on multipliciudades:
So, I am breaking the silence on this blog again to share the good news that Martín Arboleda’s Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction Under Late Capitalism will finally be out with Verso early next year —…

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Book launch for Canguilhem, gloknos/CRASSH, University of Cambridge, 20 May 2019

On 20 May at 3pm there will be a book launch for my recently-published book Canguilhem, hosted by gloknos/CRASSH at the University of Cambridge. I’ll be in conversation with Inanna Hamati-Ataya and Simon Reid-Henry. It will be held in S1, Alison Richard Building, University … Continue reading

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Centre Michel Foucault – nouveau site web (2019)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Centre Michel Foucault Présentation Le Centre Michel Foucault est une association fondée le 31 mai 1986 à l’initiative de chercheurs internationaux qui ont accompagné le développement du travail et de la pensée de Michel Foucault.…

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Translating Philosophy and Theory – Style, Rhetoric and Concepts, Warwick, 11 May 2019

Translating Philosophy and Theory – Style, Rhetoric and Concepts, Warwick, 11 May 2019 One-day interdisciplinary conference at HRC Warwick Saturday, 11th May 2019 Keynote speakers Dr Lisa Foran, Lecturer in Philosophical Studies, Newcastle University, UK Professor Andrew Benjamin, Kingston University … Continue reading

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Paper Trails Conference, 4th July 2019, University College London

Originally posted on Dr Andrew W. M. Smith:
Often there is more than research inside the books we read. Bookmarks, train tickets, receipts, and menus tucked into pages offer clues about the life of the book itself. Yet the lives…

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Altering cartographies of climate change, Royal Academy, London, 15 April 2019

Altering cartographies of climate change, Royal Academy, London, 15 April 2019, 6.30-8pm A panel discussion looking at both material and imagined borders, and the ways in which global warming challenges Western conceptions of territory. In 2014, Studio Folder initiated the … Continue reading

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Orienting Ourselves in the World: The Particular and the General, University of Manchester, 9 May 2019

Update: 5 April – just been told a few places are available, but be quick. WORKSHOP Orienting Ourselves in the World: The Particular and the General Thursday 9 May 2019, 11am-5:30pm (coffee from 11, programme start at 11:30) The University … Continue reading

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The 2019 Antipode AAG Lecture – Kristin Ross on “The Seventh Wonder of the Zad”

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
Please join us for the 2019 Antipode American Association of Geographers Lecture on Thursday 4th April between 5:00pm and 6:40pm in the Blue Room, Lobby Level, Omni Shoreham Hotel (2500 Calvert Street NW, Washington, DC…

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