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Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition (2015)

Posted on September 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition Edited by Perry Zurn, Andrew Dilts Palgrave Macmillan:November 2015 This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Le Groupe d’information sur…

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‘Foucault, Porshnev and the Revolt of the Nu-pieds’, Historical Materialism conference, London, 5-8 November 2015

Posted on September 2, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ll be speaking about ‘Foucault, Porshnev and the Revolt of the Nu-pieds’, at the Historical Materialism conference, to be held in London between 5-8 November 2015. Here’s the abstract: In his recently published lecture course from 1971-72, Théories et institutions pénales, Michel … Continue reading →

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Free the map: Gazing at Belting’s Anthropology of Images from a map studies perspective

Posted on September 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Tania Rossetto on Hans Belting’s An Anthropology of Images: Picture, Medium, Body at the Society and Space open site.

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Philippe Sabot, Le Même et l’Ordre: Michel Foucault et le savoir à l’âge classique

Posted on September 2, 2015 by stuartelden

This looks interesting. Thanks to Graham Burchell for the link: Philippe Sabot, Le Même et l’Ordre: Michel Foucault et le savoir à l’âge classique. Dans Les mots et les choses (1966), Michel Foucault accorde une place centrale à l’analyse de la disposition … Continue reading →

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Foucault, Œuvres I, II – forthcoming in the Pléiade series with Gallimard

Posted on September 1, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault, Œuvres I, II – forthcoming in the Pléiade series with Gallimard. Now has a page on the Gallimard site, with publication scheduled for November. On earlier reports, see here.

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My sabbatical rules for writing

Posted on September 1, 2015 by stuartelden

I’m hoping to complete the manuscript for Foucault: The Birth of Power over the next 12 months – a sabbatical year and summer. I’ll be based in London most of the time. I’m also hoping to make considerable progress on the … Continue reading →

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The 2015 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture – “Offshore Humanism” by Paul Gilroy

Posted on August 31, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
On Wednesday 2 September Prof. Paul Gilroy (Department of English, King’s College London) will be presenting the 2015 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture, “Offshore Humanism”. The lecture will interrogate the contemporary attractions of post-humanism and ask questions about what…

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7 critical theory books that came out in August from critical-theory.com – Critchley, Thacker, Alcoff, Krell, et. al.

Posted on August 31, 2015 by stuartelden

7 critical theory books that came out in August from critical-theory.com

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10 Steps to PhD Success – a response to the THE post on ‘failure’

Posted on August 31, 2015 by stuartelden

10 Steps to PhD Success – a response to the THE post on ‘failure’ by Fiona Whelan. Thanks to Jeffrey Jerome Cohen for the link to this

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on August 30, 2015 by stuartelden

A quiet week on the blog – I was in Paris most of the week doing work in the BNF (see no 4 below), which doesn’t have internet in the manuscripts room, so no distractions… The Times Higher Education on … Continue reading →

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