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Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall, The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know – OUP 2019

Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall, The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know – OUP 2019 Conversations defining the Arctic region often provoke debate and controversy — for scientists, this lies in the imprecise and imaginary line known as the Arctic … Continue reading

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Books received – Wahl, Arendt, Foucault, Jaspers, Geroulanos, Bulpitt, Derrida, Gotman

A mix of books for teaching and the Foucault research – Jean Wahl, Introduction à la pensée de Heidegger; the Henri Corbin early translation of works by Heidegger; Hannah Arendt, On Violence; Foucault at the Movies; the French translation of Karl Jaspers’s book … Continue reading

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On translating Foucault at the movies (2018)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Clare O’Farrell on Translating Foucault at the Movies, Columbia University Press blog, September 27, 2018 Today for National Translation Month we are presenting our film fans with a guest post from Clare O’Farrell who translated Foucault at the Movies…

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Tips for managing email as an academic – Veronika Cheplygina

Tips for managing email as an academic – Veronika Cheplygina has some good advice. I’m a believer in Inbox Zero, but this doesn’t mean that all emails have yet been answered. It means that there is nothing kept in the … Continue reading

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Landscape as Territory – forthcoming book, Actar 2019, edited by Clara Olóriz Sanjuán and funded by Graham Foundation

Some good news from the Architectural Association. Clara Olóriz Sanjuán and her team have been awarded a grant from the Graham Foundation for an edited book on Landscape as Territory. Full details here. I have a piece in the book, based on … Continue reading

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AA, Westminster and Greenwich collaborate on international symposium

Originally posted on The Landscape:
Ed Wall (University of Greenwich), Lindsay Bremner (University of Westminster) and Alfredo Ramirez (Architecture Association) are co-organising a symposium on 26 October 2018 exploring Design Agency within Earth Systems. Speakers include: Neil Brenner (UTL, Harvard GSD); Stuart Elden (Warwick…

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Laura Vaughan, Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography – UCL Press, September 2018 (open access pdf/paperback)

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Laura Vaughan, Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography – UCL Press, September 2018 (open access) From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth’s famous maps of poverty…

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Foucault, La sexualité/Le Discours de la sexualité (1964 and 1969 courses) – EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil 2018

Michel Foucault, La Sexualité. Cours donné à l’université de Clermont-Ferrand (1964) suivi de Le Discours de la sexualité. Cours donné à l’université de Vincennes (1969) – EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil 2018 The first volume of Foucault’s pre-Collège de France courses is due for … Continue reading

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Stanford University Press, 2019

Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Stanford University Press, March 2019 This is the next volume in The Complete Works project. Volume 16, of fragments from 1885-1886, is on some online sites, with a … Continue reading

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An anonymously published text by Foucault on Arcadie – ‘Le départe du prophète’, 1982 (with an interview between Didier Eribon and André Baudry)

This text was first published in Libération, July 12, 1982, p. 14 (pdf). There it is signed ‘DE’, and follows an interview with Didier Eribon with André Baudry. Readers would assume that ‘DE’ meant Didier Eribon, but in his book Michel Foucault … Continue reading

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