Monthly Archives: May 2021

Mark Olsson, 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

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Mark Olsson, 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…

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Jeff Malpas & Kenneth White, The Fundamental Field: Thought, Poetics, World – Edinburgh University Press, 2021

Jeff Malpas & Kenneth White, The Fundamental Field: Thought, Poetics, World – Edinburgh University Press, 2021 The Scottish poet Kenneth White and the Australian philosopher Jeff Malpas came together by chance when Malpas heard an interview with White on ABC … Continue reading

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William Walters, State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary – Routledge, May 2021

William Walters, State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary – Routledge, May 2021 In State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary, William Walters calls for secrecy to be given a more central place in critical security studies and elevated … Continue reading

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What the Foucault? BBC Radio 4 discussion with Shahidha Bari

What the Foucault? BBC Radio 4 discussion with Shahidha Bari Last December Liz Truss made a speech. The Minister for Women and Equalities spoke about her memories of being at school in Leeds. She was taught about sexism and racism, … Continue reading

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Books received – Eliade, Waltham-Smith, Marx-Scouras, Foucault, Olsen, Olander & Kristiansen

Mainly bought second-hand, but also the long-awaited Foucault, Binswanger et l’analyse existentielle, edited by Elisabetta Basso, and the new book by Warwick colleague Naomi Waltham-Smith, Shattering Biopolitics: Militant Listening and the Sound of Life.

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Rey Chow, A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present – Columbia University Press, April 2021

Rey Chow, A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present – Columbia University Press, April 2021 Leadership, innovation, diversity, inclusiveness, sharing, accountability—such is the resounding administrative refrain we keep hearing in the contemporary Western university. What … Continue reading

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Handbook on Space, Place and Law, edited by Robyn Bartel and Jennifer Carter – Edward Elgar, 2021

Handbook on Space, Place and Law, edited by Robyn Bartel and Jennifer Carter – Edward Elgar, 2021 This innovative Handbook provides an expansive interrogation of the spaces and places of law, exploring how we engage relationally in a material world, … Continue reading

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Centre Michel Foucault statement on Guy Sorman’s accusations against Michel Foucault and bibliography of Foucault in Tunisia

The Centre Michel Foucault have put out a statement on Guy Sorman’s accusations against Michel Foucault which is available in French, English, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. Foucault News has a very useful bibliography of Foucault in Tunisia for those who want to … Continue reading

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Benjamin Bratton, The Revenge of the Real: Post-Pandemic Politics – Verso, June 2021

Benjamin Bratton, The Revenge of the Real: Post-Pandemic Politics – Verso, June 2021 COVID-19 exposed the pre-existing conditions of the current global crisis. Many Western states failed to protect their populations, while others were able to suppress the virus only with sweeping … Continue reading

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Toposophia: thinking place/making space – relaunch of book series with Lexington books, edited by Jessica Dubow and Jeff Malpas

Toposophia: thinking place/making space – relaunch of book series with Lexington books, edited by Jessica Dubow (Sheffield) and Jeff Malpas (Tasmania). Originally established by Robert Mugerauer and Brian Treanor, Toposophia is being continued in a new form under the editorial direction of … Continue reading

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