Category Archives: People

Heidegger, Space and the New Translation of Being and Time

Cyril Welch’s version of Heidegger’s Being and Time: An Annotated Translation has been published by Yale University Press, in the United States in February, and the United Kingdom in May 2026. A fuller discussion of the translation, its choices and terminology, and … Continue reading

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Trevor Paglen, How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI – Verso, May 2026

Trevor Paglen, How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI – Verso, May 2026 We once looked at pictures. Then, with the advent of computer vision and machine learning, pictures started looking at us. By the award-winning artist, filmmaker … Continue reading

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Audio recording of Foucault’s interview with Charles Ruas about Raymond Roussel now online

The audio recording of Foucault’s interview with Charles Ruas about Raymond Roussel is now online. Foucault did this interview late in life, about one of his least-known books, translated into English as Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond … Continue reading

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Eli B. Lichtenstein, Partisan Genealogy: Foucault’s Critique of Penal Power – SUNY Press, November 2026

Eli B. Lichtenstein, Partisan Genealogy: Foucault’s Critique of Penal Power – SUNY Press, November 2026 Just a very expensive hardback listed at the moment, unfortunately. [Update: in a comment below, Eli says the paperback is due around May 2027] Presents … Continue reading

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Marco Brigaglia, Foucault on Power, Law, and Society: A Reappraisal – Routledge, 2026

Marco Brigaglia, Foucault on Power, Law, and Society: A Reappraisal – Routledge, February 2026 Thanks to Foucault News for the link This book offers a detailed analysis and reappraisal of Michel Foucault’s work on power, law, and society. Highlighting the ambiguities, … Continue reading

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Books received – Pateman, Hubert, Droit, Derrida, Sharpe, Heidegger

Trevor Pateman’s Culture as Anarchy; Henri Hubert’s Les Germains; the collection Les Grecs, les Romains et nous, edited by Roger Pol Droit; Derrida’s De la grammatologie; Alex Sharpe’s We’re Nobody’s Children: David Bowie and Existentialism and Heidegger’s Being and Time: An … Continue reading

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Peter Johnson, Philosophy for a Time of Crisis: Michel Serres and Climate Change – independently published, January 2026 (ebook free for limited time)

Peter Johnson, Philosophy for a Time of Crisis: Michel Serres and Climate Change – independently published, January 2026 The ebook is free on Amazon from 18 May to 22 May 2026

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Georges Dumézil, Geographer of the Russian World? (and some notes on the series in which it was supposed to appear)

In 1932, the mythologist Georges Dumézil was advertised as having a forthcoming book entitled Le Monde Russe [The Russian World] for a new series called ‘Géographie pour tous’ [Geography for everyone]. The book never appeared. At the time Dumézil was teaching in … Continue reading

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Michel Foucault’s annotated theses on Madness and Kant – now available online

In March last year I shared news of the discovery of typescript versions of Foucault’s two theses – what became the History of Madness and his introduction and translation of Kant’s Anthropology, annotated by Foucault – Emmanuel le Doeff, À … Continue reading

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Maria Antonietta Macciocchi – Althusser, Gramsci, Maoism, Fascism and Pasolini

Maria Antonietta Macciocchi (1922-2007) was a journalist, politician and academic. She is known for works including Daily Life in Revolutionary China (Italian and French in 1971; English in 1972). Her work on China was heavily criticised, and one example would be a … Continue reading

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