Monthly Archives: March 2021

Two radio programmes on Foucault from 1984 and 1988

Posted on March 19, 2021 by stuartelden

Two radio programmes on Foucault Michel Foucault : Le souci de l’autre (1984 / France Culture) – thanks to Tim Howles for sharing this and also Michel Foucault (1926-1984) : Une vie, une oeuvre [1988 / France Culture] There are … Continue reading →

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Mark Olssen, Constructing Foucault’s Ethics: A Poststructuralist Moral Theory for the Twenty-First Century – Manchester University Press, June 2021 and A Normative Foucauldian: Selected Papers of Mark Olssen – Brill, July 2021

Posted on March 19, 2021 by stuartelden

Mark Olssen, Constructing Foucault’s Ethics: A Poststructuralist Moral Theory for the Twenty-First Century – Manchester University Press, June 2021 updated 28 May 2021 with new description and table of contents In popularizing the term ‘speaking truth to power’, now widely … Continue reading →

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Étienne Balibar — Politics and Science: One Vocation or Two?

Posted on March 18, 2021 by stuartelden

Étienne Balibar — Politics and Science: One Vocation or Two? at boundary 2 online (open access) Translated from the French by Tommaso Manfredini, originally published in Libération

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Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, new translation of all three volumes – Routledge, September 2020

Posted on March 18, 2021 by stuartelden

Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, new translation of all three volumes – Routledge, September 2020 I missed this when it was published last year, but this looks a major undertaking. There is a review in the New York … Continue reading →

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Ben Jacobsen and David Beer, Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past – Bristol University Press, April 2021

Posted on March 18, 2021 by stuartelden

Ben Jacobsen and David Beer, Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past – Bristol University Press, April 2021 Social media platforms hold vast amounts of biographical data about our lives. They … Continue reading →

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Paul Allen Miller, Foucault’s Seminars on Antiquity: Learning to Speak the Truth – Bloomsbury, November 2021

Posted on March 18, 2021 by stuartelden

Paul Allen Miller, Foucault’s Seminars on Antiquity: Learning to Speak the Truth – Bloomsbury, November 2021 In 1980, Michel Foucault’s work makes two decisive turns. On the one hand, as announced at the start of his course at the Collège … Continue reading →

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Timothy Brennan, Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said – Bloomsbury, March 2021 – and discussion on BBC 3: Free Thinking

Posted on March 16, 2021 by stuartelden

Timothy Brennan, Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said – Bloomsbury, March 2021 Rana Mitter talks to Timothy Brennan and the writers Ahdaf Soueif, Pankaj Mishra and Marina Warner on BBC 3: Free Thinking Drawing on extensive archival sources … Continue reading →

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Vicki Squire, Nina Perkowski, Dallal Stevens and Nick Vaughan-Williams, Reclaiming Migration: Voices from Europe’s ‘migrant crisis’ – Manchester University Press, March 2021

Posted on March 16, 2021 by stuartelden

Vicki Squire, Nina Perkowski, Dallal Stevens and Nick Vaughan-Williams, Reclaiming Migration: Voices from Europe’s ‘migrant crisis’ – Manchester University Press, March 2021 Reclaiming migration critically assesses the EU’s migration policy by presenting the unheard voices of the so-called migrant crisis. … Continue reading →

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Books received – Nietzsche, Lacan, Dodds, Balibar, Wall, Dumézil

Posted on March 16, 2021 by stuartelden

Some older second-hand books, along with Klaus Dodds, Border Wars: The Conflicts that will Define our Future, two books by Étienne Balibar including his Histoire Interminable, and Illan rua Wall, Law and Disorder: Sovereignty, Protest, Atmosphere.

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Norbert Guterman and Leo Löwenthal, Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator – Verso, April 2021

Posted on March 16, 2021 by stuartelden

Norbert Guterman and Leo Löwenthal, Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator – Verso, April 2021 Foreword by Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse, Introduction by Alberto Toscano Good to see this reissued by Verso. Among … Continue reading →

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