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Society and Space volume 34 issue 3 now online

New issue of Society and Space, including an essay by Lauren Berlant, first delivered at the AAG conference in 2015.

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Eugen Fink, Play as Symbol of the World And Other Writings – forthcoming from IUP

Eugen Fink, Play as Symbol of the World And Other Writings is forthcoming from Indiana University Press. This is a book I’ve found very helpful in thinking about the ‘world’, and wrote about in an article in 2008 for Parrhesia. Its … Continue reading →

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Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Insuring Life: Value, Security and Risk

Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Insuring Life: Value, Security and Risk, the third volume in his trilogy on these questions, is forthcoming in May in the Interventions series at Routledge. At the moment it is only a very expensive hardback – £90 for … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy – forthcoming in July from Verso

Although it has been a bit delayed, Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy is now forthcoming from Verso in July 2016. First published in 1965, it was translated by David Fernbach. I edited the text and wrote an introduction. In Metaphilosophy, Henri Lefebvre works … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare productions in London, Stratford and elsewhere I’m looking forward to…

My occasional retrospective comments on Shakespeare productions in London, Stratford and elsewhere might mean they come too late, and that people who are interested don’t get to see them. I know that some productions can sell out quickly, some months … Continue reading →

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A fairly clear desk as I begin the final revisions of Foucault: The Birth of Power

A fairly clear desk as I begin the final revisions of Foucault: The Birth of Power…

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The Dissonance of Things #6: Logistics – Violence, Empire and Resistance

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
Source: Marcus Lyon This May, The Dissonance of Things switches out British accents for those of the vaguely North American variety, as I serve as host for our sixth podcast on the topic of…

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Danger, Crime and Rights: A 1983 Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon – published in Theory, Culture & Society

“Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon” has just been published by Theory, Culture and Society (Online First). The discussion from 1983 was previously only available as a recording in the Bancroft library at UC Berkeley. Katie Dingley … Continue reading →

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Durham IAS 2017-18 Structure Fellowship is now open – closing date 10th June 2016

Durham IAS 2017-18 Structure Fellowship is now open – closing date 10th June 2016 The Institute of Advanced Study is Durham University’s flagship interdisciplinary research institute, providing a central forum for debate and collaboration across the entire disciplinary spectrum. The … Continue reading →

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Levinas conference in Toulouse, July 4-8, 2016

Originally posted on Object-Oriented Philosophy:
THE NEIGHBOR AND THE STRANGER July 4th – 8th, 2016, University Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France An international conference under the auspices of the North American Levinas Society (NALS) & Société internationale de Recherche Emmanuel Levinas (SIREL)…

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