Monthly Archives: February 2020

New Book: Simon Dalby’s Anthropocene Geopolitics

Originally posted on the anthropo.scene:
A great looking new title from Simon Dalby from the University of Ottawa Press. Anthropocene Geopolitics: Globalization, Security, Sustainability We now find ourselves in a new geological age: the Anthropocene. The climate is changing…

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Judith Butler interview in The New Yorker on The Force of Nonviolence

Judith Butler interview in The New Yorker – ‘Judith Butler wants us to reshape our rage’ The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political is out with Verso this month

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Henri Lefebvre, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche Or the Realm of Shadows – translated by David Fernbach, introduced by Stuart Elden, Verso, February 2020

Henri Lefebvre, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche Or the Realm of Shadows – translated by David Fernbach, introduced by Stuart Elden, Verso, February 2020 Now out from Verso – and a reminder that if buying from Verso direct it will come with … Continue reading

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Chronotopic Cartographies – British Library, 16-17 July 2020

Chronotopic Cartographies – British Library, 16-17 July 2020 full details here An International  Conference: 16th and 17th July, 2020. The Knowledge Centre, The British Library, London. NW1 2DB. KEYNOTES: Robert Tally; Anders Engberg-Pedersen; James Kneale This two-day interdisciplinary conference is … Continue reading

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Sara Smith, Political Geography: A Critical Introduction – Wiley-Blackwell, April 2020

Sara Smith, Political Geography: A Critical Introduction – Wiley-Blackwell, April 2020 Political geography is the study of how power struggles both shape and are shaped by the places in which they occur—the spatial nature of political power. Political Geography: A … Continue reading

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The Early Foucault update 30: working at the BnF, Collège de France, Archives Nationales, and Sorbonne

In the last update, I mentioned the work I’d been doing in Paris and Tübingen, and said I’d agreed to write a book on Foucault in the 1960s, again for Polity, with the working title of The Archaeology of Foucault … Continue reading

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Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Foucault against Neoliberalism? translated by Matthew Maclellan – Rowman June 2020

Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Foucault against Neoliberalism? translated by Matthew Maclellan – Rowman, June 2020 In the late 1970s, Michel Foucault dedicated a number of controversial lectures on the subject of neoliberalism. Had Foucault been seduced by neoliberalism? Did France’s premier … Continue reading

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Kirsten Simonsen and Lasse Koefoed, Geographies of Embodiment: Critical Phenomenology and the World of Strangers – Sage, Society and Space book series, 2020

Kirsten Simonsen and Lasse Koefoed, Geographies of Embodiment: Critical Phenomenology and the World of Strangers – Sage, 2020 This is the latest book in the Society and Space series Geographies of Embodiment provides a critical discussion of the literatures on the … Continue reading

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‘Georges Canguilhem : les traces du métier’ – special issue of Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger 2020/1

Georges Canguilhem : les traces du métier – special issue of Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger 2020/1. Includes pieces by Giuseppe Bianco, Jean-François Braunstein, Xavier Roth, Gisèle Sapiro and others. Articles are in French, and requires subscription. … Continue reading

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