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La pensée politique de Foucault (2017)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
La pensée politique de Foucault sous la direction d’Orazio IRRERA et Salvo VACCARO Paris, Editions Kimé (coll. “Philosophie en cours”), 2017, p. 248. Loin d’être considérée comme une simple notion appartenant au vocabulaire de la…

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Say ‘Yes!’ to peer review: Open Access publishing and the need for mutual aid in academia

Simon Springer et al (2017). Say ‘Yes!’ to peer review: Open Access publishing and the need for mutual aid in academia. Fennia 195: 2, pp. xx–xx. ISSN 1798-5617 [pdf, or scroll down list of forthcoming papers] Scholars are increasingly declining to … Continue reading

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Navigating Marx in the Age of Trump: An Interview With David Harvey

Navigating Marx in the Age of Trump: An Interview With David Harvey in The Observer This fall marks the 150th anniversary since the publication of Karl Marx’s Capital. In his groundbreaking series, Marx famously defined capital as value in motion, architecting an … Continue reading

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The disintegration has already begun: Austerity politics at the end of Europe.

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
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In Dread of Derrida – discussion of Ethan Kleinberg’s new book, Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past

An interesting discussion of Ethan Kleinberg’s new book, Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past, with a link to a panel discussion of the book with Kleinberg, Joan Wallach Scott, Carol Gluck and Stefanos Geroulanos.

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Nigel Thrift reviews David Willetts, A University Education

Nigel Thrift reviews David Willetts, A University Education in The Times Higher Education.

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Book censorship in Turkey including Althusser, Spinoza and Camus

Thanks to G.M. Goshgarian for bringing this to my attention – Books come under suspicion in post-coup Turkey. This obviously needs to be seen in the wider context of Turkish politics, but seems indicative of what is being reported about academics … Continue reading

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Peter Linebaugh’s address to the House of Commons on the 800th anniversary of the Charter of the Forest

Peter Linebaugh’s address to the House of Commons on the 800th anniversary of the Charter of the Forest on the Verso blog This text, delivered in the State Rooms at the House of Commons on 7 November 2017, was first … Continue reading

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Jens Bartelson, War in International Thought – now out from Cambridge University Press

Jens Bartelson, War in International Thought – now out from Cambridge University Press As scholars and citizens, we are predisposed to think of war as a profoundly destructive activity that ideally should be abolished altogether. Yet before the twentieth century, … Continue reading

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Stuart Hall bibliography – compiled by Nick Beech for the Stuart Hall Foundation

Stuart Hall bibliography – compiled by Nick Beech for the Stuart Hall Foundation The Stuart Hall Foundation has published a bibliography of Stuart Hall’s published works, including all known political, literary, critical, theoretical, creative prose and poetry, interviews, and ephemera, … Continue reading

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