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Suzanne Gossett, Shakespeare and Textual Theory – Arden/Bloomsbury, February 2022

Suzanne Gossett, Shakespeare and Textual Theory – Arden/Bloomsbury, February 2022 There is no Shakespeare without text. Yet readers often do not realize that the words in the book they hold, like the dialogue they hear from the stage, has been … Continue reading →

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Books received – Macherey, Kurlander, Vuillerod, Kristeva, Vernant, Benveniste, Trubetzkoy, Dumézil

A mix of second-hand books, mostly for the new project on Indo-European thought in France, along with a copy of Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod, La naissance de l’anti-hégélianisme: Louis Althusser et Michel Foucault, lecteurs de Hegel, and another volume of the Théorie series, Pierre Macherey, … Continue reading →

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Mark G.E. Kelly, Normal Now: Individualism as Conformity – Polity, March 2022

Mark G.E. Kelly, Normal Now: Individualism as Conformity – Polity, March 2022 This is a book about what we consider normal. It details how the very concept of normality emerged in the modern era, and how it has changed over … Continue reading →

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Louis Althusser’s Théorie series at François Maspero – list of published volumes and English translations

In the 1960s and 1970s Louis Althusser edited a series at the radical publisher François Maspero. Many of the books published were by his former students including Pierre Macherey, Étienne Balibar, Alain Badiou, Emmanuel Terray and others. There were some … Continue reading →

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100 YEARS IN FULL BLOOM

Originally posted on andy merrifield:
100 years ago, in Paris, February 2nd, James Joyce celebrated his fortieth birthday by raising a glass (or two…) to Ulysses, his great epic novel, launched into the world in all its full, if later revised,…

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‘Message ou bruit?’ Resituating a short text by Foucault on medicine

I’ve mentioned before how Dits et écrits, which is an excellent collection, can sometimes decontextualise a piece by Foucault, making it hard to see why it was written. Tracking down the original publication of pieces can often be difficult but is … Continue reading →

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Interviews about Intolerable. Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980)

A number of interviews about the important collection Intolerable. Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980) – University of Minnesota Press, 2021 the collection was edited by Kevin Thompson and Perry Turn, and translated by Perry Turn and … Continue reading →

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Konrad Lawson, Riccardo Bavaj and Bernhard Struck, A Guide to Spatial History: Areas, Aspects, and Avenues of Research, June 2021 (open access)

Konrad Lawson, Riccardo Bavaj and Bernhard Struck, A Guide to Spatial History: Areas, Aspects, and Avenues of Research, June 2021 (open access) This guide provides an overview of the thematic areas, analytical aspects, and avenues of research which, together, form … Continue reading →

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Le foucaldien relaunched as Genealogy + Critique (2022)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Le foucaldien relaunched as Genealogy + Critique (2022) From 2022, the peer-reviewed, open-access journal Le foucaldien, published by the London-based Open Library of Humanities (OLH), and the affiliated foucaultblog appear under the new title GENEALOGY+CRITIQUE at genealogy-critique.net. The relaunch broadens the…

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Irit Katz, The Common Camp: Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel–Palestine – University of Minnesota Press, May 2022

Irit Katz, The Common Camp: Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel–Palestine – University of Minnesota Press, May 2022 Seeing the camp as a persistent political instrument in Israel–Palestine and beyond Focusing on the geopolitical complexity of Israel–Palestine and the dramatic … Continue reading →

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