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Posted on May 9, 2012 by stuartelden

More on the Political Geology workshop – this time with a link to the flyer.

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Posted on May 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
For full details and the conference poster please visit the Conference website Colloque international MICHEL FOUCAULT DU GOUVERNEMENT DES VIVANTS AU COURAGE DE LA VÉRITÉ Université Paris-Est Créteil/Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne    21-22 juin 2012…

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Philip Manow, In the King’s Shadow

Posted on May 8, 2012 by stuartelden

I picked up this 2010 book from Polity as part of the recompense for a reader report. I’m glad I did – it’s a very interesting examination of the political body after the end of the medieval King’s Two Bodies … Continue reading →

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Eyal Weizman – The Least of All Possible Evils

Posted on May 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Out soon Now out with Verso: The principle of the “lesser evil”—the acceptability of pursuing one exceptional course of action in order to prevent a greater injustice—has long been a cornerstone of Western ethical philosophy. From its roots in classical … Continue reading →

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Foucault – Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling

Posted on May 8, 2012 by stuartelden

University of Chicago Press finally have a page up for the translation of Foucault’s 1981 lectures at Louvain – Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling. They are due out in January 2013. Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures … Continue reading →

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Posts at Durham

Posted on May 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Durham University has advertised a large number of senior level appointments across the university. Details here. Areas include conflict, security and borders; engaged humanities; visual culture; public policy and health; and medieval and renaissance studies.

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Judith Butler, Parting Ways

Posted on May 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Judith Butler’s long-awaited book on Jewish and Zionist thought is forthcoming in July. Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism will be published by Columbia University Press. Judith Butler follows Edward Said’s late suggestion that through a consideration of … Continue reading →

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Agamben, Highest Poverty draft preface

Posted on May 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Adam Kotsko has made available the preface to Agamben’s Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Forms of Life He previously made the preface to Opus Dei available. Both books are being translated for Stanford UP. More here.

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‘Palestinians and the End of the Peace Process’

Posted on May 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting looking report from the International Crisis Group – The Emperor has no Clothers: Palestinians and the End of the Peace Process. Does anybody still believe in the Middle East Peace Process? Nineteen years after Oslo and thirteen years after … Continue reading →

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Sloterdijk – You Must Change Your Life

Posted on May 7, 2012 by stuartelden

The English translation of Sloterdijk’s book is scheduled for November – full details here.

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