Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Ian Hacking in Northumbria

As a break from marking and catching up on journal work and email, I headed up the A1 to Newcastle to hear Ian Hacking speak at the University of Northumbria. I really like his early books The Emergence of Probability … Continue reading

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Foucault-Chomsky debate – in full, with subtitles

You may need to turn the captions on to see the subtitles. Thanks to Philippe Theophanidis and Agostino Mantegna for sending me the link.

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On writing books

Yesterday I reblogged Graham Harman’s post about his forthcoming Latour book Prince of Nodes (a sequel to Prince of Networks). In that post he reflects on how this means he is contracted to write three books simultaneously.  He suggests that … Continue reading

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Louise Amoore, The Politics of Possibility

My friend and Durham colleague Louise Amoore’s forthcoming book, The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond Probability, now has a page up at Duke University Press site. It looks great: Since September 11, 2001, the imagination of “low probability, … Continue reading

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The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon

Now listed on the Cambridge University Press website though not out until January 2014 – The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, edited by Leonard Lawlor and John Nale. This is an expensive reference work – I wrote the entry on ‘space’, which was about 2,600 … Continue reading

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Foucault, Biopolitics, and Governmentality – e-book

Foucault, Biopolitics, and Governmentality, an open-access e-book edited by Sven-Olov Wallenstein and Jakob Nilsson, with essays by Thomas Lemke, Johanna Oksala, Catherine Mills, Julian Reid, Lukasz Stanek, Helena Mattsson, Warren Neidich, Cecilia Sjoholm, Maurizio Lazzarato, and Adenna Mey. Foucault’s work on biopolitics and governmentality … Continue reading

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Foucault books received

Two new books – the Blackwell A Companion to Foucault, and the new collection La grande étrangère. I’ll be reviewing the Companion for Cultural Geographies. It looks really good including a translation of Daniel Defert’s ‘Chronology’ from Dits et écrits … Continue reading

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Foucault’s History of Sexuality – an updated table

In 2005 I published a piece entitled ‘The Problem of Confession’, freely available here. which had a lot of discussion of Foucault’s different plans for his History of Sexuality and the issues that revolved around them. That piece had a … Continue reading

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Foucault lecture at Memorial University Newfoundland – audio recording

The audio recording of the George Story Lecture in Humanities I gave at Memorial University of Newfoundland, entitled “Knowledge, Truth, Power: The Politics of Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir”, is now available here. There is a gap in the recording about … Continue reading

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Books received

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