Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Heterotopian Studies – now with blog

The Heterotopian Studies site I mentioned a few months back has a blog attached to it – http://www.heterotopiastudies.com/blog/ It is extraordinary how this short piece by Foucault, which was not published for almost twenty years, has generated so much interest and … Continue reading

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New books received

A pile of new books received recently. Foucault’s Mal faire, dire vrai is probably the first I will tackle. The Polity ones here were in recompense for a review of a manuscript for them; Alex Jeffrey kindly sent me a copy … Continue reading

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Du Gouvernement des vivants – more details

Foucault’s 1979-80 course is forthcoming in a little over a month – the date has been put back a couple of weeks. Seuil now has a page up, which Clare O’Farrell’s Foucault News blog has just linked to. Both Clare … Continue reading

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Foucault – The Mesh of Power

Foucault’s 1976 lecture ‘The Mesh of Power’ is available online in English (with a link to the French) at Viewpoint Magazine. This lecture was previously translated by Gerald Moore for the Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography collection Jeremy Crampton … Continue reading

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Forthcoming talks

Several talks for the 2012/13 academic year have been arranged. Two lectures have been in the diary for a while – the Critical International and Political Studies annual lecture at the University of Warwick in October (abstract here), and the George M. … Continue reading

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IJURR review essay on Foucault and Geography

The latest issue of IJURR has a review essay on cities by Martina Löw that takes the Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography collection that Jeremy Crampton and I edited as one of the three books under review. The … Continue reading

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Urban Territory: Violent Political Technologies in London and Kano

This is my abstract for the AAG meeting in Los Angeles next April. It will be part of the ‘Violence and Space’ sessions organised by Philippe le Billon and Simon Springer – call for papers here. I’ll also be part … Continue reading

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Some more free downloads

I’ve been posting up old papers here for a while, but haven’t done any recently. Here are a few more: Elden, S. & Williams, A. The Territorial Integrity of Iraq, 2003-2007: Invocation, Violation, Viability. Geoforum. 2009;40:407-417. Elden, S. The War … Continue reading

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Bernard Harcourt – The Illusion of Free Markets

I finally got round to reading Bernard Harcourt, The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order. I bought it after The Foucault Effect 1991-2011 conference last year when Bernard spoke. I don’t have much to say, … Continue reading

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Urban Geopolitics

At the Antipode blog, Marijn Nieuwenhuis has an interesting post on Urban Geopolitics in the wake of the London Olympics. He mentions the Territorial Support Group’s ‘Total Policing’ map I linked to a few weeks back. Marijn discusses Foucault and … Continue reading

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