Category Archives: Grégoire Chamayou

Books received – Hill, Barthes, King, Chamayou, Keltner, Clark & Szerszynski, Nail

Some books in recompense for review work for Polity, Thomas Nail’s Theory of the Earth, sent by Stanford, and Samantha Rose Hill’s Hannah Arendt.

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Grégoire Chamayou, The Ungovernable Society: A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism – Polity, March 2021

Grégoire Chamayou, The Ungovernable Society: A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism – Polity, translated by Andrew Brown, March 2021 Rebellion was in the air. Workers were on strike, students were demonstrating on campuses, discipline was breaking down. No relation of domination was … Continue reading

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Radical Philosophy 191 out – including pieces on data and surveillance by Chamayou and Aradau

Radical Philosophy 191 out – including pieces on data and surveillance by Grégoire Chamayou and Claudia Aradau. Those pieces are currently available open access.

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The Funambulist Papers Volume 2 – print on demand and open access e-book

The Funambulist Papers Volume 2, edited by Léopold Lambert is now available as print on demand and open access e-book from Punctum Books. I have an essay in it, along with Derek Gregory, Gastón Gordillo, Grégoire Chamayou, Erin Manning, Elena Loizidou and many others. … Continue reading

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Grégoire Chamayou – A Theory of the Drone published and excerpt available

The translation of Grégoire Chamayou’s A Theory of the Drone is now published. An excerpt is available open access at Asymptote. Derek Gregory discussed the original French version of this book extensively on his Geographical Imaginations site. You can read my … Continue reading

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The most important academic books to me from 2014

A non-systematic, alphabetically ordered list of the academic books published this year I read and most liked – the photo is of some that were to hand. Louis Althusser, On the Reproduction of Capitalism (Verso) Ben Anderson, Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions (Ashgate) Étienne Balibar, Equaliberty: … Continue reading

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Critical review of Grégoire Chamayou, Théorie du drone

A very critical review of Grégoire Chamayou, Théorie du drone by Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer has been translated at booksandideas.net (original here). This book is forthcoming next year in English translation with Penguin as Drone Theory. For other takes on Chamayou’s work, see … Continue reading

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Grégoire Chamayou, ‘What is Necroethics?’, King’s College London, 29 October 2014

Posted on behalf of Paul Gilroy: Hosted by the Capture Seminar, Grégoire Chamayou – author of Manhunts: A Philosophical History [Princeton, 2012] and Théorie du drone [La Fabrique, 2013] – will be joining us at King’s to give a presentation  “What … Continue reading

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Forthcoming Publications – new page and some preprints

I’ve added a forthcoming publications page to the site, along with links to a few preprints. These are only for publications currently in production – it doesn’t include things under review or being drafted. I’m hoping the Boko Haram paper will … Continue reading

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Foucault’s Last Decade – eighth update

The first thing I did on arrival in Melbourne was finish work on a short piece on Grégoire Chamayou’s Manhunts for The Funambulist, which returns to some of the arguments I’ve made about Foucault and territory. I’m grateful to Léopold … Continue reading

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