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Marcelo Hoffman, ‘The FBI file on Foucault’, Viewpoint Magazine (open access), 2021

Marcelo Hoffman, ‘The FBI file on Foucault‘, Viewpoint Magazine, 2021 Nearly a decade ago, two Brazilian researchers, Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues and Maria Izabel Pitanga, made a remarkable discovery. They requested materials on the French philosopher Michel Foucault from … Continue reading

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CFP: Michel Foucault and the Historiography of the Sciences (2021-22)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Call for papers Michel Foucault and the Historiography of the Sciences The June 2022 edition of Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science will present a special issue dedicated to the work of Michel…

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Hadot and Foucault on Ancient Philosophy: Critical Assessments (2021)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Hadot and Foucault on Ancient Philosophy: Critical Assessments Symposium 17-19th November 2021 Register here for Zoom attendance

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Interview with Samuel Lee for Ming Pao Daily on Foucault (with English translation and audio)

I recently did an interview with Samuel Lee about my work on Foucault. This has been published in Chinese in Ming Pao Daily, with an English version here. There is also an edited audio recording of part of our conversation … Continue reading

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Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography – edited by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, translated by Robert Bononno and others, University of Minnesota Press, March 2022

Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography – edited by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, translated by Robert Bononno and others, University of Minnesota Press, March 2022 Now listed on the University of Minnesota Press site, with description … Continue reading

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 11: A new term, work on Nietzsche and planning another archive trip

While the start of term was as busy as ever, I have managed to keep a bit of time each week to work on this project. So far at least this term seems more manageable than the equivalent last year, and … Continue reading

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Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Kärrholm (eds.), Territories, Environments, Politics, Explorations in Territoriology – Routledge, April 2022

Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Kärrholm (eds.), Territories, Environments, Politics, Explorations in Territoriology – Routledge, April 2022 An interesting looking collection of essays, which also reprints one of my early pieces on territory, with a brief new afterword. A shame about the … Continue reading

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Michel Foucault, Phénoménologie et Psychologie 1953-1954, edited by Philippe Sabot, Gallimard/Seuil/EHESS, November 2021

Michel Foucault, Phénoménologie et Psychologie 1953-1954, edited by Philippe Sabot, Gallimard/Seuil/EHESS, November 2021 The next volume of the courses and manuscripts before the Collège de France is a really interesting one. I discuss this in The Early Foucault, but it … Continue reading

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Reece Jones, White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall – Beacon 2021

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Reece Jones, White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall – Beacon, September 2021 The first book to show that racial exclusion was behind…

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Journal peer review is increasingly challenged – there are no easy solutions, but here’s a few thoughts

Journal editors struggle to find reviewers; authors face unreasonable delays with their papers being reviewed. Reviewers receive a lot of requests. Peer review is particularly challenged in the present moment. But it has been creaking for a long time. Without … Continue reading

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