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“Before California: Foucault’s Early Visits to the Americas” – audio recording of talk at Maison Française, Oxford, 16 June 2025

On 16 June 2025 I gave a short talk with the title “Before California: Foucault’s Early Visits to the Americas”, to the Remembering/Forgetting Foucault: Reassessing a Critical Legacy workshop at the Maison Française, Oxford. The audio recording of my talk … Continue reading →

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Henry Somers-Hall and Jeffrey A. Bell (eds.), The Deleuzian Mind – Routledge, May 2025

Henry Somers-Hall and Jeffrey A. Bell (eds.), The Deleuzian Mind – Routledge, May 2025

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“Political Emotions on the Far Right”, TANK – papers from Remarque Institute workshop in November 2024

“Political Emotions on the Far Right”, TANK – papers from Remarque Institute workshop in November 2024 Stefanos Geroulanos, Dagmar Herzog, Zahid R. Chaudhary, Fabian Muniesa, Alberto Toscano and Carlo Invernizzi Accetti

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Josué V. Harari, the Marquis de Sade, and Michel Foucault’s 1970 lectures in Buffalo

Josué V. Harari plays a small but important role in the story of Foucault in the United States. A PhD researcher at the University at Buffalo when Foucault visited in the early 1970s, he went on to edit a 1979 volume … Continue reading →

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“Language and Image Minus Cognition”: An Interview with Leif Weatherby – Journal of History of Ideas blog; Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism – University of Minnesota Press, June 2025

“Language and Image Minus Cognition”: An Interview with Leif Weatherby – Journal of History of Ideas blog with Robin Manley Leif Weatherby is an Associate Professor of German at New York University, where he directs the Digital Theory Lab. Robin Manley spoke … Continue reading →

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Christoph Schuringa, A Social History of Analytic Philosophy: How Politics has Shaped an Apolitical Philosophy – Verso, June 2025

Christoph Schuringa, A Social History of Analytic Philosophy: How Politics has Shaped an Apolitical Philosophy – Verso, June 2025 How a supposedly apolitical form of philosophy owes its continuing power to social and political forces Analytic philosophy is the leading … Continue reading →

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Fanon’s Philosophical Legacy: Fanon at 100 – Birkbeck, 27-28 June 2025

Fanon’s Philosophical Legacy: Fanon at 100 – Birkbeck, 27-28 June 2025 2025 marks the centenary year of the birth of Frantz Fanon. Despite Fanon’s enormous influence in postcolonial studies, political thought, the history of Marxism and the humanities more widely, … Continue reading →

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Luna Vives, The Gates of the Sea: Migration and Rescue at the Edges of Europe – Fernwood, September 2025

Luna Vives, The Gates of the Sea: Migration and Rescue at the Edges of Europe – Fernwood, September 2025 The Gates of the Sea examines the paradoxes of maritime search and rescue at Europe’s frontier. Focusing on Spain, Luna Vives explores how governments … Continue reading →

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Foucault, “Les Hermaphrodites” – forthcoming with Gallimard in September 2025

Foucault, “Les Hermaphrodites” – forthcoming in September 2025. France 24 reports on this here. Not that many details, except it will be with Gallimard, and have a preface by Arianna Sforzini and a postface by Éric Fassin. The text is … Continue reading →

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Clive Barnett’s website Pop Theory back online

Clive Barnett’s website Pop Theory is back online The personal website of Prof. Clive Barnett, who sadly and unexpectedly passed away in December 2021 is being maintained by colleagues to enable ongoing access to Clive’s work held here. The site … Continue reading →

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