Monthly Archives: October 2020

Two visual pieces on the digitisation of Foucault’s reading notes (both open access)

Posted on October 31, 2020 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned before the project to diigitise Foucault’s reading notes which are now archived at the Bibliothèque national de France. Two interesting pieces report on the project. First, a presentation given at a recent conference which gives an indication of … Continue reading →

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Tiphanie Samoyault on the process of writing her biography of Roland Barthes (Seuil 2015; Polity 2017)

Posted on October 30, 2020 by stuartelden

Tiphanie Samoyault on the process of writing her biography of Roland Barthes I worked hard, taking the historian’s approach to begin with: spent whole days consulting the archives; moving on to interviews (which weren’t actually that useful because my interviewees … Continue reading →

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Rita Felski and Stephen Muecke (eds.), Latour and the Humanities – Johns Hopkins University Press, September 2020

Posted on October 29, 2020 by stuartelden

Rita Felski and Stephen Muecke (eds.), Latour and the Humanities – Johns Hopkins University Press, September 2020 How does the work of influential theorist Bruno Latour offer a fresh angle on the practices and purposes of the humanities? In recent … Continue reading →

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Dawn Lyon, Rhythmanalysis: Research Methods – Bloomsbury, December 2020

Posted on October 29, 2020 by stuartelden

Dawn Lyon, Rhythmanalysis: Research Methods – Bloomsbury, December 2020 First published as What is Rhythmanalysis?, this title is now available as part of the Bloomsbury Research Methods series. In recent years, there has been growing interest in Henri Lefebvre’s posthumously published … Continue reading →

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Azucena G. Blanco, Literature and Politics in the Later Foucault – De Gruyter, November 2020 (currently open access e-book)

Posted on October 29, 2020 by stuartelden

Azucena G. Blanco, Literature and Politics in the Later Foucault – De Gruyter, November 2020. This appears to be currently open access as an e-book. This study proposes a revised interpretation of Foucault’s views on literature. It has been argued … Continue reading →

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Christopher Harker, Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine – Duke University Press, December 2020

Posted on October 28, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Christopher Harker, Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine – Duke University Press, December 2020 In Spacing Debt Christopher Harker demonstrates that financial debt is as much a spatial phenomenon as it is…

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Samantha Rose Hill, Hannah Arendt and the politics of truth – Open Democracy; and details of her book on Arendt – Reaktion, May 2021

Posted on October 28, 2020 by stuartelden

Samantha Rose Hill, Hannah Arendt and the politics of truth – Open Democracy Her book Hannah Arendt is forthcoming with Reaktion in 2021 Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century and her work … Continue reading →

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Bahriye Kemal, Writing Cyprus: Postcolonial and Partitioned Literatures of Place and Space – Routledge, October 2019

Posted on October 28, 2020 by stuartelden

Bahriye Kemal, Writing Cyprus: Postcolonial and Partitioned Literatures of Place and Space – Routledge, October 2019 Bahriye Kemal’s ground-breaking new work serves as the first study of the literatures of Cyprus from a postcolonial and partition perspective. Her book explores … Continue reading →

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Daniel Bensaïd, Recorded Fragments: Twelve reflections on the 20th century – Resistance Books, November 2020

Posted on October 28, 2020 by stuartelden

Daniel Bensaïd, Recorded Fragments: Twelve reflections on the 20th century – Resistance Books, November 2020 These interviews with Daniel Bensaïd were broadcast in 2008 on the radio station Fréquence Paris Plurielle. Through them, Bensaïd gives his insight into twelve significant events including … Continue reading →

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Mark Cousins (1947-2020)

Posted on October 28, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Ryan Dillon, Mark Morris, Denis Macshane Mark Cousins: Architectural theorist who captivated experts and enthusiasts alike, Independent, 22 October 2020 (photo: Pichan Sujaritsatit) For more than 30 years, Mark Cousins’s Friday evening lectures at the…

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