Category Archives: Books

Books received – Luxemburg, Sheehan, Burdon, Huggett

All in recompense for review work – two for the ‘earth’/geopolitics project; Thomas Sheehan’s new book on Heidegger; and Rosa Luxemburg’s classic The Accumulation of Capital.

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Video of my ‘Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth’ lecture at Nottingham Contemporary

Video of my ‘Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth‘ lecture and the discussion following it, at Nottingham Contemporary gallery last night. The introduction is by Emma Moore, the discussion is with Colin Wright, Sophie Fuggle and Alex Vasudevan. This was a really … Continue reading

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Review essay of Branch, Sassen, Scott and Vigneswaran on historical and political understandings of territory, forthcoming in Society and Space

I have a review essay of four books coming out in Society and Space in issue 1 next year. The books are Jordan Branch, The Cartographic State; Saskia Sassen, Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy; Tom Scott, The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600 and Darshan Vigneswaran, Territory, Migration, … Continue reading

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Warburg Institute high court ruling – good news!

Good news earlier this week about the future of the Warburg Institute library. I’ve said before how important this library was to my work on The Birth of Territory, and linked to a few earlier stages of this story. Here are … Continue reading

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 14

It’s been two months since the last update on this book. I’ve been working, in and around lots of other things, on the manuscript, though more slowly than I’d hoped. I finished and published my review of On the Government of … Continue reading

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‘Confession, Flesh, Power and Truth’ – my review of the most recently translated Foucault lecture courses

My review of Foucault’s lecture courses Du gouvernement du vivants/On the Government of the Living and Mal faire, dire vrai/Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling is now available, open access, at Berfrois. It’s entitled ‘Confession, Flesh, Power and Truth‘ and it tries to situate these courses in … Continue reading

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Critical Theory’s 10 books that came out in October

Some good ones here – Sloterdijk, Rancière, Naas, Vogl and more…

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Video of my Groningen Lecture on Modes of Reasoning – ‘Globe, Governmentality, Geometrics’

This is the video recording of my Groningen Lecture on Modes of Reasoning – ‘Globe, Governmentality, Geometrics’. More details about the lectures and the videos of the previous lecture from Mick Dillon here. Thanks to Luis Lobo-Guerrero for the invitation and chairing the … Continue reading

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Radio Benjamin – Walter Benjamin’s radio transcripts

Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to ’33, he wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts using the new medium … Continue reading

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New issue of Dialogues in Human Geography – forum on The Birth of Territory and discussion of John Agnew’s AAG lecture

The new issue of Dialogues in Human Geography contains two short pieces by me. The first is in the discussion forum of John Agnew’s Dialogues in Human Geography lecture from the AAG earlier this year. As well as John’s lecture it contains … Continue reading

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