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Foucault’s ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’ lectures, 50 years on – conference in Buenos Aires, 13-17 November 2023

Buenos Aires conference next week on Foucault’s ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’ lectures, 50 years on. Apologies for not having a link to a conference website – happy to update if anyone knows of one. [Update: Foucault News has a pdf … Continue reading

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Sarah Hall interviews Louise Amoore on the ethical challenges of AI

Sarah Hall interviews Louise Amoore on the ethical challenges of AI – The UK in a Changing Europe Podcast In the week of the UK’s AI Safety Summit, Professor Sarah Hall talks to Professor Louise Amoore about responding to the … Continue reading

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Iván Chaar López, The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion – Duke University Press, March 2024

Iván Chaar López, The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion – Duke University Press, March 2024 In The Cybernetic Border, Iván Chaar López argues that the settler US nation requires the production and targeting of a racialized enemy that threatens the … Continue reading

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Antipode Virtual Issue on Palestine/Israel – papers open access until end of 2023

Antipode have put together a Virtual Issue on Palestine/Israel, updating a list from 2021 – with papers open access until end of 2023

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Juval Portugali (ed.), The Crisis of Democracy and in the Age of Cities – Edward Elgar, 2023

Juval Portugali (ed.), The Crisis of Democracy and in the Age of Cities – Edward Elgar, 2023 Providing a succinct overview of historical, present and future perspectives of cities and urbanism, this discerning book examines how the 21st century, regarded … Continue reading

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Ash Amin, After Nativism: Belonging in an Age of Intolerance – Polity, October 2023

Ash Amin, After Nativism: Belonging in an Age of Intolerance – Polity, October 2023 Increasingly, many people in democracies are turning to a strongarm politics for reassurance against globalization, uncertainty and precarity. In countries ranging from the US and the UK to … Continue reading

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Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault – University of Chicago Press, September 2023 and New Books discussion

Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault – University of Chicago Press, September 2023 I’ve shared news of this book before, but there now a New Books discussion with Richard Grijalva available. A groundbreaking … Continue reading

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Antony Loewenstein, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World – Verso, May 2023 (e-book free to download)

Antony Loewenstein, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World – Verso, May 2023 Verso have currently made the e-book free to download Israel’s military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing … Continue reading

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Tim Cresswell, Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction, 2nd Edition – Wiley, April 2024

Tim Cresswell, Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction, 2nd Edition – Wiley, April 2024

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 14: returning to work, tracking Benveniste’s teaching, and working with archives including the Aurel Stein collections in London

I have now been back at work for a few weeks, initially beginning half-time and gradually increasing what I can do. The support I have had from my department for a long period off work and a phased transition has … Continue reading

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