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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)

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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 https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/image.jpg The city of Toronto is often held up as a leader in diversity and inclusion. In Fearing…

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

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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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Seminario: El bestiario de Michel Foucault (2022-23)

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Seminario: El bestiario de Michel Foucault 9 sesiones mensuales, Miércoles 19-20:30 horas. Del 26 octubre 2022 al 28 de junio de 2023. Institut français (Marqués de la Ensenada, 12) – Sala Mediateca. Coordinación: Rodrigo Castro…

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Books received – Detienne, Benveniste, Olender, Dumézil, Rampling, Katz

Some second-hand books for the Indo-European thought project, along with Jennifer M. Rampling, The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700, in recompense for review work, and Irit Katz, The Common Camp: Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel-Palestine, which I … Continue reading →

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