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Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen (eds.), Invisible Borders in a Bordered World: Power, Mobility, and Belonging – Routledge, 2022

Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen (eds.), Invisible Borders in a Bordered World: Power, Mobility, and Belonging – Routledge, 2022 This book critically challenges the usual territorial understanding of borders by examining the often messy internal, transborder, ambiguous, and in-between … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s library card

I found this yesterday, while looking for something else. It’s Foucault’s library card for the Bibliothèque nationale de France, found on their images site. I can’t read and/or decipher it all, but here’s what I can work out. [It’s worth … Continue reading →

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On the Greatness of Marx

Originally posted on Destratified:
The final book Deleuze was working on before his untimely death, ‘Grandeur de Marx’, has an almost mythical status among followers and readers of Deleuze’s philosophy. Marx occupies a relatively privileged place in Deleuze’s work (perhaps…

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Indo-European Thought project update 4: Editing and Introducing Dumézil’s Mitra-Varuna, and working with Foucault’s Lecture Courses 

Editing Georges Dumézil’s Mitra-Varuna has taken far longer than I expected, but I think the text of the book is now complete. The major challenge, as I’ve indicated before, was the process of checking, completing and sometimes correcting Dumézil’s references. I’ve been mainly … Continue reading →

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Philippe Chevallier, Foucault avant Foucault (2022)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Chevallier, Philippe. « Foucault avant Foucault », Archives de Philosophie, vol. 85, no. 3, 2022, pp. 151-156. https://doi.org/10.3917/aphi.853.0151 Article en accès gratuit jusqu’au 30/07/22 sur : https://www.cairn.info/tap-gmsjcp22r371o En 2013, la Bibliothèque nationale de France a…

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Irus Braverman (ed.), Laws of the Sea: Interdisciplinary Currents – Routledge, July 2022 (open access e-book) and short film

I’ve mentioned this book before – Irus Braverman (ed.), Laws of the Sea:Interdisciplinary Currents – Routledge, July 2022. Available in hardback, paperback and open access e-book here. 20% off discount before end August 2022 with code ASM06. One of the chapters comes from … Continue reading →

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Foucault, Sexuality, Antiquity. Eds. Sandra Boehringer, Daniele Lorenzini (2022)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Foucault, Sexuality, Antiquity, Edited By Sandra Boehringer, Daniele Lorenzini, Routledge, 2022 Book Description Foucault, Sexuality, Antiquity, published for the first time in English, takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring how the work of Michel Foucault…

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Books received – Ginzburg, Kelly, Camelli, Massey, Trubetzkoy, Foucault, Derrida, Brighenti & Kärrholm

Older books by Ginzburg and Trubetzkoy, the new lecture courses from Foucault and Derrida, Mark Kelly, Normal Now: Individualism as Conformity (which I endorsed), Michele Camelli, Canguilhem philosophe, Doreen Massey, Selected Political Writings (sent by Lawrence & Wishart), and Territories, … Continue reading →

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Dominique Lecourt (1944 – 2022)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Dominique Lecourt, author of the classics of Marxist philosophy of science Marxism and Epistemology Bachelard, Canguilhem, Foucault and Proletarian Science?, among many others, died in Paris on 1 May 2022. Here, Roger-Pol Droit remembers his…

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David Storey (ed.), A Research Agenda for Territory and Territoriality – Elgar, 2020 [paperback 2022]

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
David Storey (ed.), A Research Agenda for Territory and Territoriality – Edward Elgar, 2020 Just an expensive hardback at present, but Introduction and front matter open access here. Update: the paperback is now available. https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/9781788112802.jpg…

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