Monthly Archives: August 2022

Klaus Dodds and Sverker Sörlin (eds.), Ice Humanities: Living, Working and Thinking in a Melting World – Manchester University Press, August 2022

Klaus Dodds and Sverker Sörlin (eds.), Ice Humanities: Living, Working, and Thinking in a Melting World – Manchester University Press, August 2022

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Indo-European Thought project update 5: Reading Saussure

With the proofs and index of The Archaeology of Foucault complete, the next thing will hopefully be receiving an advance copy toward the end of the year. The new edition of Dumézil’s Mitra-Varuna is now in production with HAU books, and should be out … Continue reading

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Foucault’s 1983 seminar at Berkeley – the two cowboy hat photographs

Back in 2015, when I was doing the research for Foucault’s Last Decade, I tried to identify and contact the people who had been part of Foucault’s 1983 seminar at Berkeley. The famous photograph appeared in Didier Eribon’s biography, with … Continue reading

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Foucault and Praxis: On Genealogical Method and Abolition with Bernard Harcourt (2022)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Foucault and Praxis: On Genealogical Method and Abolition with Bernard Harcourt, Acid Horizon, Aug. 13, 2022 ABOUT THIS EPISODE Acid Horizon hosts Bernard Harcourt, a distinguished critical theorist, legal advocate, and prolific writer and editor.…

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Parastou Saberi, Fearing the Immigrant: Racialization and Urban Policy in Toronto – University of Minnesota Press, August 2022

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Parastou Saberi, Fearing the Immigrant: Racialization and Urban Policy in Toronto – University of Minnesota Press, August 2022 The city of Toronto is often held up as a leader in diversity and inclusion. In Fearing the…

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Special Issue: Foucault’s Method Today. Continental Thought and Theory (2022)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
CT&T: Continental Thought and Theory: A Journal of Intellectual Freedom Volume 3, Issue 4, 2022 Foucault’s Method Today Open access “Foucault’s Method: Introduction to Issue”, Cindy Zeiher and Mike Grimshaw “Notes on the Concept of…

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Chloe Kathleen Preedy, Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576-1609 – OUP, September 2022

Chloe Kathleen Preedy, Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576-1609 – OUP, September 2022 During the early days of the professional English theatre, dramatists including Dekker, Greene, Heywood, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, and Shakespeare wrote for … Continue reading

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Gëzim Visoka and Nicolas Lemay-Hébert, Normalization in World Politics – University of Michigan Press, 2022 (open access e-book)

Gëzim Visoka and Nicolas Lemay-Hébert, Normalization in World Politics – University of Michigan Press, 2022 (open access e-book) As we face new challenges from climate change and the rise of populism in Western politics and beyond, there is little doubt … Continue reading

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Angharad Closs Stephens, National Affects: The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political – Bloomsbury, September 2022

Angharad Closs Stephens, National Affects: The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political – Bloomsbury, September 2022 Identity is widely acknowledged to be a felt experience, yet questions of atmosphere, mood and public sentiments are rarely made central to understanding the global … Continue reading

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Books received – Kuper, Ojakangas, Drews, Glendinning, Cassirer

Books in recompense for review work, including the new translation of Ernst Cassirer’s The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, and Simon Glendinning’s Europe: A Philosophical History.

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