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Francesca Antonini, Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci: Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity – Brill, November 2020 (and Revising Gramsci’s Notebooks now in paper)

Francesca Antonini, Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci: Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity – Brill, November 2020 In Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci, Francesca Antonini offers a fresh insight into Antonio Gramsci’s thought. Building on the achievements of recent Gramscian scholarship, … Continue reading

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The Telos Press Podcast: Mark G. E. Kelly on Michel Foucault and the Politics of Language Today (2020)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
The Telos Press Podcast: Mark G. E. Kelly on Michel Foucault and the Politics of Language Today, December 1, 2020 In today’s episode of the Telos Press Podcast, Camelia Raghinaru talks with Mark G. E.…

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Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Wilcken, Mill, Rancière, Badiou, Salmon, Sirinelli

Some books bought recently for the Foucault work, related projects and J.S. Mill for teaching. I’m teaching the history of political thought again this year, and while I have most of the texts we’re using, didn’t have Mill’s Considerations on … Continue reading

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It was fifty years ago today… Michel Foucault’s inaugural lecture at the Collège de France, 2 December 1970

On 2 December 1970, Michel Foucault delivered his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France. He was 44 years old. My thanks to Marcelo Hoffman for alerting me to this anniversary. Had this not been such a crazy term, it … Continue reading

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Lars Spuybroek, Grace and Gravity: Architectures of the Figure – Bloomsbury, November 2020

Lars Spuybroek, Grace and Gravity: Architectures of the Figure – Bloomsbury, November 2020 How do we live well? The first sentence of Grace and Gravity raises the fundamental question that constantly occupies our minds-and of all those who lived before us. … Continue reading

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Access to pdfs of my work – on the blog, institutional repositories, ResearchGate and by contacting me

A reminder that on my blog I share a lot of my work. There are separate pages for articles and chapters, some books, interviews, audio and video, and reading lists. Some pre-prints of forthcoming pieces are here. Also see Google Books; and Durham Research Online and Warwick Research Access Portal (WRAP) which have preprints … Continue reading

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Special issue of Coils of the Serpent on Deleuze’s essay on Control Societies (open access)

Coils of the Serpent has a special issue on Deleuze’s essay on Control Societies. All papers are open access. Papers from Jason Read, Patricia Ticinto Clough, Benjamin Noys and others. Coils of the Serpent is a scholarly journal dedicated to the … Continue reading

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Miguel de Beistegui, Lacan: A Genealogy – Bloomsbury, May 2021

Miguel de Beistegui, Lacan: A Genealogy – Bloomsbury, May 2021 Lacan: A Genealogy provides a genealogical account of Lacan’s work as a whole, from his early writings on paranoid psychosis to his later work on the real and surplus enjoyment.  Beistegui … Continue reading

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Michel Foucault, Sexuality: The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand and 1969 Vincennes Lectures – Columbia University Press, August 2021

Michel Foucault, Sexuality: The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand and 1969 Vincennes Lectures – Columbia University Press, August 2021 Edited by Claude-Olivier Doron, foreword by Bernard E. Harcourt, translated by Graham Burchell. Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality—the first volume of which was published … Continue reading

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Rosimeri de Oliveira Dias and Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues (eds.), Ordens do discurso: comentários marginais à aula de Michel Foucault – November 2020

Rosimeri de Oliveira Dias and Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues (eds.), Ordens do discurso: comentários marginais à aula de Michel Foucault – November 2020 A new Brazilian collection commemorating the 50th anniversary of Foucault’s inaugural lecture at the Collège de … Continue reading

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