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The RTE interview of Gillian Rose (audio)

The RTE interview of Gillian Rose (audio) Thanks to Robert Lucas Scott for the link. Update 21 November: I should have given the link to the transcription published in Theory, Culture and Society in 2008, edited by Vincent Lloyd. It’s … Continue reading →

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Jacob Chamberlain, Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal: Rights, Law, and Resistance against Territory’s Exclusions – University of Georgia Press, March 2025

Jacob Chamberlain, Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal: Rights, Law, and Resistance against Territory’s Exclusions – University of Georgia Press, March 2025 Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal details the story of Migrant Justice, a migrant rights organization led … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Foucault, Derrida, Arendt and Scholem

Books sent in recompense for review work for University of Chicago Press – three of the four volumes of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Mythologies (the other one is out of print), Michel Foucault, What is Critique? and The Culture of the Self, … Continue reading →

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Christopher Falzon, Foucault and the History of Philosophical Transcendence: Freedom, Nature and Agency – Bloomsbury, August 2024

Christopher Falzon, Foucault and the History of Philosophical Transcendence: Freedom, Nature and Agency – Bloomsbury, August 2024 In an original approach to Foucault’s philosophy, Christopher Falzon argues for a reading of Foucault as a philosopher of finite transcendence, and explores … Continue reading →

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Derrida at NYU, 21 November 2024 – online and in-person

Derrida at NYU, 21 November 2024 – online and in-person

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Marta Dyczok, Ukraine not ‘the’ Ukraine – Cambridge University Press, November 2024

Marta Dyczok, Ukraine not ‘the’ Ukraine – Cambridge University Press, November 2024 pdf free online until 13 December 2024 This Element is a historical tour of Ukraine from the medieval Kyivan prince Volodymyr the Great through to Ukraine’s twenty-first-century rock … Continue reading →

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Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani (eds.), The Biopolitical Animal – Edinburgh University Press, November 2024

Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani (eds.), The Biopolitical Animal – Edinburgh University Press, November 2024 No description on the EUP website, so here’s the table of contents – shame about the price. [Update May 2026, a paperback edition is now available] Introduction: … Continue reading →

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Audrey Borowski, Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant – Princeton University Press, November 2024

Audrey Borowski, Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant – Princeton University Press, November 2024 Described by Voltaire as “perhaps a man of the most universal learning in Europe,” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) is often portrayed as a rationalist … Continue reading →

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Call for Abstracts – Michel Foucault and Phenomenology: The Southern Journal of Philosophy Workshop March 27-28, 2025, The University of Memphis

Call for Abstracts: Michel Foucault and Phenomenology The Southern Journal of Philosophy Workshop March 27-28, 2025, The University of Memphis Keynote Speakers: Philippe Sabot, Elisabetta Basso, Christophe Bouton The Southern Journal of Philosophyhttps://foucault40.info How is Michel Foucault’s thought related to the tradition … Continue reading →

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Michael Hardt, The Subversive Seventies – Oxford University Press, September 2023 and New Books discussion

Michael Hardt, The Subversive Seventies – Oxford University Press, September 2023 Discussion with Hardt at the New Books Network with Morteza Hajizadeh. Thanks to Dave Beer for the links. A thought-provoking reconsideration of how the revolutionary movements of the 1970s set … Continue reading →

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