A mixed pile of books to come back to in the office. They include –

• Maurice Merleau-Ponty, L’union de l’âme et du corps chez Malebranche, Biran et Bergson – a course Foucault attended
• Jacques Lacan, My Teaching
• Two recent translations of books by Louis Althusser – History and Imperialism and Lessons on Rousseau, both translated by G.M. Goshgarian
• The pamphlet ‘Foucault in Hamburg’ by Rainer Nicolaysen
• Volume 100 of the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe (more of the ‘black notebooks’ from the 1950s)
• Finally! – the long-awaited translation of Foucault’s Penal Theories and Institutions, edited by Bernard Harcourt and translated by Graham Burchell – the last volume of the Collège de France courses
• The Theory, Culture and Society annual review
• Henri Lefebvre’s Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche or the Realm of Shadows, translated by David Fernbach and with an introduction by me – this is an advance copy of a book due out next month
• Michael Scammell’s epic biography of Arthur Koestler
• And a copy of Conductas que importan: Variantes de análisis de los Estudios en Gubernamentalidad, edited by Aldo Avellaneda and Guillermo Vega – in which my essay ‘Governmentality, Calculation, Territory’ is translated by Maitén Vargas.