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Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
A few weeks ago at the Millennium conference, some of us got together to talk about open access and the political economy of knowledge (re)production in our little corner of academia (“us” being Colin…

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Foucault – Du gouvernement des vivants

Just received – really looking forward to this.

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Jean Gottmann – The Significance of Territory

The editors of Geographica Helvetica have asked me to contribute a short piece to their relaunch issue. They asked me to write a piece on past geographical text, reevaluating its contemporary worth and relevance. This is for one of the … Continue reading →

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Daniel Defert and the Foucault archives

Foucault News links to an interview with Daniel Defert on the Foucault archives and a separate piece with some more details: Il ne s’agit pas encore du trésor, mais déjà de sa cartographie : un inventaire de 63 pages décrivant le contenu … Continue reading →

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Foucault after Agamben: Rethinking the Language of Biopolitics – call for panellists

Najeeb Jan is seeking panelists for the 2013 Los Angeles meeting of the AAG. Please note since this is a panel discussion, you will not need to submit an abstract. If you are interested in joining the panel discussion please email … Continue reading →

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Jonathan Rée reviews Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life

Peter Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life is reviewed by Jonathan Rée at New Humanist (via ANTHEM).

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Originally posted on Foucault News:
Workshop “Foucault and the critique of our present: Reworking the Foucauldian tool-box” Part 2 organized at Goldsmiths College (London) by Yari Lanci, Amedeo Policante and Martina Tazzioli, with the support of the Department of Politics…

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David Beer on choosing book titles, with links to earlier discussions by Graham Harman and me – back when The Birth of Territory still had the title The Geometry of the Political.

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Originally posted on Object-Oriented Philosophy:
The title is Bells and Whistles: More Speculative Realism, and you can expect to see it out towards the fall of 2013. It will be of the same style as Towards Speculative Realism, with a…

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‘What The 2012 Election Would Have Looked Like Without Universal Suffrage’

Buzzfeed has some interesting projections of how the election would have gone if only white men, only men, only whites, and only over 24 year olds had had the vote. What they have done is chosen the voting rules for the … Continue reading →

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