Category Archives: Books

The Birth of Territory review essay in Tulsa Law Review by Bartholomew Sparrow

A thoughtful and generous review essay of my 2013 book The Birth of Territory has just been published – “Territory Delimited“, Tulsa Law Review by Bartholomew Sparrow (open access). I was particularly pleased with these two general paragraphs, which follow a detailed survey of what the … Continue reading

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No joke – Foucault’s Last Decade is officially published today

Foucault’s Last Decade is officially published today. The date is mere coincidence. If you order direct from Wiley – Polity’s distributor – then the book should be sent now. Other online retailers will be getting copies shortly. Thank you to … Continue reading

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Autumn and Winter 2016-17 talks – Foucault, Shakespeare and Terrain

My attempt at keeping the diary clear of talks between January and September this year is just about holding. The last seminar I gave was on Foucault and health research and activism in January, and with the exception of three small … Continue reading

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Foucault’s Last Decade Update 26: advanced copy received and some final reflections

This is the 26th and probably final update on the writing and production of Foucault’s Last Decade, as I received an advanced copy of the physical book a couple of days ago. Copies should be available in online stores and elsewhere in … Continue reading

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Foucault and Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation (video interview)

In 2015 in Prato I was interviewed for the ‘Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation‘ project, about Foucault’s late work and the Foucault’s Last Decade book. Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation is a two-year-long research project investigating the revival of ethical … Continue reading

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 12: Another trip to Paris and submission of the manuscript

I’ve spent most of my time since the last update working on Shakespeare, but I made a trip to Paris in February to do some further work on Foucault. At Richelieu site I continued working on the manuscripts, moving to boxes … Continue reading

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Books received – Extraterritorialities, Elemental Ecocriticism, State Phobia and Civil Society and Shakespeare

A pile of recent books. I have a chapter in Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds; Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert’s collection Elemental Ecocriticism, and Mitchell Dean and Kaspar Villadsen’s State Phobia and Civil Society were both sent by publishers, and … Continue reading

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Korean translations of Understanding Henri Lefebvre and Foucault’s Last Decade forthcoming

Translations of Understanding Henri Lefebvre and Foucault’s Last Decade are forthcoming in Korean with Kyungsung University Press and Nanjang Publishing House respectively. These might be the first of my authored books to appear in translation, since potential translations of The Birth of Territory into … Continue reading

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Manifesto of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons translation in Viewpoint

The manifesto of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons, authored by Foucault, Pierre Vidal-Naquet and Jean-Marie Domenich, which I translated for this site a couple of years ago, has been reprinted in Viewpoint magazine. The prison group, along with Foucault’s … Continue reading

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The GIP, the 1972 Nancy prison revolt and the Gauche révolutionnaire – a request for help

I wonder if anyone can help. I am looking for a brochure entitled ‘Révolte à la prison de Charles III de Nancy’, authored by the Groupe d’Information sur les prisons. It appeared as a supplement to Gauche révolutionnaire, no 9, … Continue reading

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