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Foucault, La Sexualité (Clermont-Ferrand 1964) and Le Discours de la sexualité (Vincennes 1969) – published

Posted on October 23, 2018 by stuartelden

Foucault’s 1964 course from Clermont-Ferrand La sexualité together with the 1969 course from Vincennes Le discours de la sexualité has now been published – received a copy yesterday. This is the first of a planned seven volumes of material from before … Continue reading →

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Renske Doorenspleet, Rethinking the Value of Democracy: A Comparative Perspective – Palgrave, September 2018

Posted on October 22, 2018 by stuartelden

Renske Doorenspleet, Rethinking the Value of Democracy: A Comparative Perspective – September 2018 (unfortunately only in expensive hardback at present) This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the instrumental value of democracy in a comparative perspective. Based on extensive … Continue reading →

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Gabrielle Lynch, Performances of Injustice The Politics of Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Kenya – CUP, August 2018

Posted on October 22, 2018 by stuartelden

Gabrielle Lynch, Performances of Injustice The Politics of Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Kenya – CUP, August 2018 Following unprecedented violence in 2007/8, Kenya introduced two classic transitional justice mechanisms: a truth commission and international criminal proceedings. Both are widely … Continue reading →

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Georges Canguilhem, Œuvres complètes Tome V : Histoire des sciences, épistémologie, commémorations 1966-1995 – finally published!

Posted on October 22, 2018 by stuartelden

Georges Canguilhem, Œuvres complètes Tome V : Histoire des sciences, épistémologie, commémorations 1966-1995 was originally due to appear in January 2018. It slipped many times – to March, May, September and finally October. A copy should now be on its way… … Continue reading →

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Teaching Political Economy – notes and links from the Warwick workshop by Ben Richardson and Anika Heckwolf at Progress in Political Economy

Posted on October 22, 2018 by stuartelden

Teaching Political Economy – notes and links from the Warwick workshop by Ben Richardson and Anika Heckwolf at Progress in Political Economy In September 2018, a Teaching Political Economy workshop was held at the University of Warwick, sponsored by the … Continue reading →

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Foucault and the politics of resistance in Brazil. Carceral Notebooks (2018)

Posted on October 22, 2018 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Foucault and the politics of resistance in Brazil, Carceral Notebooks, vol. 13, 2017 Bernard E. Harcourt, Preface Marcelo Hoffman, Special Editor, Introduction Salma Tannus Muchail and Márcio Alves da Fonseca, Power and Resistance: Foucault’s Laboratory in…

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Walter Benjamin and Shakespeare, Warburg Institute, 28-29 November 2018

Posted on October 20, 2018 by stuartelden

Walter Benjamin and Shakespeare, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB, 28-29 November 2018 One of the key figures in Walter Benjamin’s Origin of the German Mourning Play is Hamlet; for Benjamin as for Schmitt and Agamben, Shakespeare’s tragedy is emblematic of … Continue reading →

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The Body Productive programme – Birkbeck, University of London, 8 December 2018

Posted on October 19, 2018 by stuartelden

The Body Productive programme – Birkbeck, University of London, 8 December 2018 The keynote is by François Guéry – ‘Marx’s Vision of our Future’, and has a closing roundtable on ‘The Productive Body in the 21st Century’. The conference develops themes … Continue reading →

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Thinking with Jean-Luc Nancy – Oxford, 28-30 March 2019

Posted on October 19, 2018 by stuartelden

Thinking with Jean-Luc Nancy – Oxford, 28-30 March 2019 – details and call for papers (English and French) Balliol College – University of Oxford (UK) Keynote Speakers: Jean-Luc Nancy (University of Strasbourg) and Emmanuel Falque (Catholic University of Paris) Organisers: Marie … Continue reading →

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David Harvey – A Companion to Marx’s Capital, complete edition (Verso, forthcoming November 2018)

Posted on October 19, 2018 by stuartelden

Originally posted on multipliciudades:
Verso is publishing a new, complete edition of David Harvey’s A Companion to Marx’s Capital – out next month. In recent years, we have witnessed a surge of interest in Marx’s work in the effort to understand…

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