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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

2014 in review – talks, publications and writing Foucault and Neoliberalism – a few thoughts in response to the Zamora piece in Jacobin Foucault on Parrhesia – translation of a 1982 lecture forthcoming in Critical Inquiry Political Geography forum on … Continue reading →

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Foucault on Parrēsia – translation of a 1982 lecture in Critical Inquiry (now available)

A lecture by Foucault in 1982 at Université de Grenoble, on “Parrēsia” was first published in French in 2012 in the journal Anabases; it is now published in English in Critical Inquiry, translated by Graham Burchell (requires subscription). It is followed by … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Collaborative Projects – some updates

I’ve updated this blog’s page on Foucault’s Collaborative Projects. The page now discusses Généalogie du capital; Généalogie des équipements de normalisation; Les machines à guérir; Politiques de l’habitat, L’impossible prison and Génealogie de la défense sociale en Belgique.

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Foucault on Kant’s ‘What is Enlightenment?’ – a mini bibliography

Foucault discussed Kant’s essay ‘What is Enlightenment?’ in various places. DE = Dits et écrits; EW = Essential Works; PT = The Politics of Truth lecture of 27 May 1978, published as “Qu’est-ce que la critique? (Critique et Aufklärung)”, Bulletin … Continue reading →

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We Will Not Shoot Back reviewed by Williams

A new review at the Society and Space open site.

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Antipode 47(1) out now – and freely available without a subscription

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
We start the new year looking back to 2013 and the Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture. Presented in London by Bruce Braun (University of Minnesota) ‘New Materialisms and Neoliberal Natures’ was recorded by our publisher, Wiley, and…

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Approaches to Human Geography: new edition published

Originally posted on Pop Theory:
Oh the excitement – a new year, and a new book in the pigeon hole at work. The new, second edition of Approaches to Human Geography, edited by Stuart Aitken and Gill Valentine, has been…

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Books received – The Care of Life, Lefebvre for Architects, Henry IV, Part I and Issues in Political Theory

Some other books received recently – an old edition of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part I; Nathaniel Coleman’s Lefebvre for Architects; the new collection The Care of Life, edited by Miguel de Beistegui, Giuseppe Bianco and Marjorie Gracieuse; the new edition of Catriona McKinnon’s Issues in … Continue reading →

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Books received – for the Foucault project

Some books for the Foucault project – new editions of a couple of Foucault’s books; Jacques Donzelot’s L’invention du social; recent books by Jacques Bizet and Pierre Macherey; and the original outlets of a couple of Foucault essays and interviews.

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Ulrich Beck obituary in The Guardian

Ulrich Beck obituary in The Guardian

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