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The work of editing – adding references to translations II

In a previous post I said a bit about one of the tasks of editing a translation. I’ve now completed the Heidegger references I discussed in that previous post. The references to Hegel, Jaspers, Heraclitus, Homer, Lukács and Lenin took relatively … Continue reading

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Authority and Political Technology workshop – keynote audio recordings

Recordings from the recent Authority and Political Technologies workshop are now available at the Warwick website – Christian Borch, Luciana Parisi, Amade M’Charek, Louise Amoore, Costas Douzinas and AbdouMaliq Simone.

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Next installments of Barry Stocker’s reading of Foucault’s Subjectivity and Truth lectures

The second half of lecture 1, and the first half of lecture 2.

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Ben Anderson, Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions – first chapter online

The first chapter of Ben Anderson’s Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions is available online. The book will be out in July. Since the mid-1990s, affect has become central to the social sciences and humanities. Debates abound over how to conceptualise affect, … Continue reading

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Top posts this week on Progressive Geographies

Shakespeare in New York: Kenneth Branagh as Macbeth – a short review The work of editing – adding references to translations Books received – Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Lefebvre etc. (2 of 3) Books received – territory, borders, architecture, government (1 … Continue reading

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Paul Rabinow on Foucault & the Contemporary

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
Paul Rabinow on Foucault & the Contemporary – the host is a bit lacking but Rabinow is probably the most important intellectual of our time… http://www.stanford.edu/dept/fren-ital/opinions/shows/eo10175.mp3 ? Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University…

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Bambach reviews Heidegger’s 1933-34 seminars, Nature, History, State

Charles Bambach reviews Heidegger’s 1933-34 seminars, Nature, History, State – translated and edited by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt – at NDPR. The volume in question comprises student protocols of the seminars, plus interpretative essays by Robert Bernasconi, Peter Eli Gordon, … Continue reading

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Foucault’s lectures on Subjectivity and Truth, I.1.

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
I will be summarising and commenting on the most recently published of Michel Foucault’s lecture series at the Collège de France, on subjectivity and truth (Subjectivité et Vérité. Cours au Collège de France, 1980-1981. Eds. François…

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Editors vs Publishers – The Times Higher story on Prometheus and Taylor & Francis

The Times Higher has an interesting and worrying piece about the clash between the editors of a journal and their publisher Taylor & Francis. Here’s the opening few lines: A journal’s editorial board has been left on the brink of resignation after … Continue reading

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Steve Mentz on Kenneth Branagh’s Macbeth

Steve Mentz has a good piece about Kenneth Branagh’s Macbeth at his blog. You can read my take here.

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