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Searching for Foucault in an Age of Inequality (2015)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Searching for Foucault in an Age of Inequality Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Alexander Arnold on Critiquer Foucault: Les Années 1980 et la tentation néolibérale, Los Angeles Review of Books, 18 March 2015 JACOBIN RECENTLY PUBLISHED an…

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David Farrell Krell, Phantoms of the Other: Four Generations of Derrida’s Geschlecht – published and review forthcoming

David Farrell Krell, Phantoms of the Other: Four Generations of Derrida’s Geschlecht has recently been published. Features a reconstruction of an unfinished text by Jacques Derrida from his most penetrating series of readings of Heidegger’s philosophy. During the 1980s Jacques Derrida … Continue reading

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Princeton University Library Acquires Jacques Derrida’s Personal Library

Princeton University Library Acquires Jacques Derrida’s Personal Library – news story here. The Princeton University Library is very pleased to announce the acquisition of the personal working library of Jacques Derrida… Derrida’s library, consisting of about 13,800 published books and … Continue reading

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New book: Wildlife in the Anthropocene

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
I have posted to Jamie Lorimer’s work (Oxford, Geography) before, but the University of Minnesota Press just released his new book on Wildlife in the Anthropocene. Here is the description and a talk previously…

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New additions to Colin Gordon’s academia.edu site (2015)

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Colin Gordon, New additions to academia.edu site, March 2015 « Le possible : alors et maintenant : The possible then and now. » A new publication in a special issue of the French journal Cultures…

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6 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in March

6 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in March – an interesting list, only one of which I’ve previously posted about here. In honour of the date, you might also want to check out the other post – ‘I am Eugene … Continue reading

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Foucault, About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self – forthcoming in December

Michel Foucault, About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self – forthcoming in December from University of Chicago Press. In 1980, Michel Foucault began a vast project of research on the relationship between subjectivity and truth, an examination of … Continue reading

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Books received – journals, Foucault-related books, and New Geographies 06

The last of the books and journals received while I was away in Melbourne. Liberté, Libertés is a collection by Robert Badinter with a preface by François Mitterand. Foucault discusses this in a 1977 interview which was published shortly after his death (and … Continue reading

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What are the humanities good for?

Originally posted on Pop Theory:
There is, apparently, a ‘war against the humanities‘ going on in British higher education, according to a piece in The Observer this weekend. The piece cites as its primary evidence for this ‘war’ the perspectives of scholars from…

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Michel Foucault, Qu’est-ce que la critique? Suivie de La culture de soi (2015)

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Michel Foucault, Qu’est-ce que la critique? Suivie de La culture de soi Édition établie par H.-P. Fruchaud et D. Lorenzini Introduction et apparat critique par D. Lorenzini et A.I. Davidson Vrin – Philosophie du présent…

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