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Les archives de Michel Serres entrent à la Bibliothèque nationale de France (2022)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Les archives de Michel Serres entrent à la Bibliothèque nationale de France Les Univers du livre, 05/10/2022 Ce mercred 5 octobre, la Bibliothèque nationale de France annonce que ses collections seront enrichies par un fonds…

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Two reviews of The Early Foucault (Polity, 2021) by Colin Koopman and Jasper Friedrich – and a note on Heidegger

There are two recent reviews of The Early Foucault by Colin Koopman at The Review of Politics (requires subscription) and Jasper Friedrich at Foucault Studies (open access). They are generous and appreciative, though not uncritical. I’m grateful to both for taking the time to … Continue reading →

Posted in Canguilhem (book), Foucault's Last Decade, Foucault: The Birth of Power, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Georges Canguilhem, Gilles Deleuze, Immanuel Kant, Ludwig Binswanger, Mapping the Present, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault, The Early Foucault | 2 Comments

A 1970 French interdisciplinary seminar on structuralism, attended by Foucault, Canguilhem, Bourdieu, Serres, Thom et. al., its published traces and a request for help

This is a short account of an interesting event and a rather specialist request for help. In the late 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s the Institut collégial européen organised a series of events, most of which were reported in their annual … Continue reading →

Posted in Clémence Ramnoux, Georges Canguilhem, Georges Dumézil, Michel Foucault, Michel Serres, Roland Barthes | 7 Comments

Bruno Latour, ‘Is Europe’s soil changing beneath our feet?’ at geopolitique.eu

Bruno Latour, ‘Is Europe’s soil changing beneath our feet?’ A late text by Latour, published yesterday at geopolitique.eu I will begin with a text which will seem unusual: Jean Bollack’s translation from the beginning of Oedipus Rex when the priest is addressing … Continue reading →

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“Uncovering lines of escape: towards a concept of concrete utopia in the age of catastrophes,” by Étienne Balibar

Originally posted on Foucault News:
https://youtu.be/rlJS6VowQ4w See webpage as well “Uncovering lines of escape: towards a concept of concrete utopia in the age of catastrophes,” by Étienne Balibar 1/13 | CRITICAL THEORETIC FOUNDATIONS FOR CONCRETE UTOPIAS WITH ÉTIENNE BALIBAR Columbia…

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Spatial Delight – ten-part podcast about space, society, and power inspired by geographer Doreen Massey

A ten-part podcast about space, society, and power inspired by geographer Doreen Masseyhttps://thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/spatial-delight/ Spatial Delight is a ten-part podcast about space, society, and power inspired by British geographer Doreen Massey. From a London laundromat to a public park in Berlin, from … Continue reading →

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Roberto Esposito, Institution (2022)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Roberto Esposito, Institution Translated by Zakiya Hanafi, Polity Press, 2022. Offer Details: To get 20% off this title, go to http://www.politybooks.com and use code PPBK1 at checkout. Applies to paperback edition only. Offer expires 31…

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Bruno Latour (1947-2022) [updated]

Sorry to hear this news – Libération, L’Obs, Le Monde Update: I’ll add other links here – Radio France, France Bleu The Guardian obituary (and 2020 interview) Adrian Ivakhiv at Immanence; Graham Harman at Object-Orientated Philosophy Graham Harman, Bruno Latour: … Continue reading →

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Indo-European thought project update 6: beginning the Leverhulme fellowship, my self-imposed guidelines for writing and time-discipline, and some summer cycling and writing

I’m in the incredibly privileged position of beginning a Leverhulme major research fellowship this week, to work on the Indo-European thought in Twentieth-Century France project. As a note to myself, I’m going to try to work with the guidelines I set myself seven years … Continue reading →

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Mark Neocleous, A Critical Theory of Police Power – new edition, Verso, January 2021 [and New Books discussion]

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Mark Neocleous, A Critical Theory of Police Power – new edition, Verso, January 2021 [update – discussion of the new edition at the New Books podcast] Putting police power into the centre of the picture…

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