Category Archives: Books

Books received – Chamayou, Kotef, Smirl, Shakespeare, Heidegger, Kluge and Negt

Some more books – these are ones I bought, with the exception of Hagar Kotef’s Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility, which was sent by the publisher. The others include Lisa Smirl’s posthumous Spaces of Aid, Kluge … Continue reading

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Books received – Foucault project

Some more books for the Foucault work, including some for reference which I’ve read before, but also some others that came out recently.  

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Books received – Foucault in Actes and Revue Rodeo

Three issues of the journal Actes – all relating to Foucault: Nos 24-25, 54 and 73; along with the issue of Revue Rodéo from 2013 which has the previously largely-unknown 1979 interview between Foucault and Farès Sassine. That interview, originally published in … Continue reading

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Tom Sparrow, Plastic Bodies – with preface by Catherine Malabou – in print or open access e-book

Tom Sparrow’s Plastic Bodies: Rebuilding Sensation After Phenomenology, with a preface by Catherine Malabou, is available in print or as an open access e-book (via Object-Orientated Philosophy). Sensation is a concept with a conflicted philosophical history. It has found as many allies as … Continue reading

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Umberto Eco, How to Write a Thesis – reviewed in Times Higher Education

As previously mentioned, Umberto Eco’s 1977 book How to Write a Thesis now out in translation from MIT Press – it is reviewed in The Times Higher Education by Robert Eaglestone – thanks to Dean Bond for the link. Here’s the concluding … Continue reading

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Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou

Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou, edited by Brenna Bhandar and Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller. Catherine Malabou’s concept of plasticity has influenced and inspired scholars from across disciplines. The contributors to Plastic Materialities—whose fields include political philosophy, critical legal studies, social … Continue reading

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Second review of the Global Discourse review symposium on The Birth of Territory

Global Discourse are hosting a review symposium on The Birth of Territory, which was joint winner of their inaugural book award. The second review, by Jeppe Strandsbjerg, is available here; and the first review by Jordan Branch (previously posted) is here. Both require subscription, … Continue reading

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Being Social: Ontology, Law, Politics – first book from Counterpress

Being Social: Ontology, Law, Politics, edited by Dan Matthews and Tara Mulqueen. Being Social brings together leading and emerging scholars on the question of sociality in poststructuralist thought. The essays collected in this volume examine a sense of the social which resists … Continue reading

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Global Discourse book award review symposium on The Birth of Territory – first review by Jordan Branch

Global Discourse are hosting a review symposium on The Birth of Territory, which was joint winner of their inaugural book award. The first review by Jordan Branch is available online – requires subscription, or email me. Update: the second review, by … Continue reading

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The Uncollected Foucault – updates to texts needed; and to texts available

I’ve been doing further work on ‘The Uncollected Foucault’ – which will hopefully become a short article as well as a resource here. I’ve made some updates to texts needed; and to texts available. The ones I still need are … Continue reading

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