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Books received – Chevalier & Greacen on Foucault, Fanon x 2, McCormack, Baring on Derrida

Philippe Chevalier and Tim Greacen (eds.), Folie et justice: Relire Foucault; Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks; Derek McCormack, Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Environmental Envelopment; Edward Baring, The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945-1968 and Frantz Fanon, Alienation and Freedom. Derek’s book was sent … Continue reading

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The Early Foucault Update 19: A Writing and Cycling Retreat in the Peak District

I’m just back from a couple of weeks in the Peak District, in the south near Bakewell and the north in Holmfirth. The idea was to have a consolidated period of work on this book. The internet connection was somewhere … Continue reading

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Shakespeare and Derrida, 1 September 2018, Garrick’s Temple, Hampton – programme

Kingston Shakespeare Series Conference: Shakespeare and Derrida, 1 September 2018, Garrick’s Temple, Hampton – details here; full programme here. Registration required (£20). Papers by Nicholas Royle, Tina Chanter, Christopher Prendergast, John Joughin, Andrew Cutrofello and Howard Caygill. This is part of … Continue reading

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Mattias Leanza review of Foucault’s Last Decade in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (requires subscription)

Mattias Leanza reviews Foucault’s Last Decade (Polity, 2016) in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (requires subscription). It’s a generous and positive review which ‘highly recommends’ the book. All the reviews of this book, and of Foucault: The Birth of Power (Polity … Continue reading

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The Early Foucault update 18: back to work, and thinking about the 1960s

It’s taken longer than anticipated for me to return to the work on The Early Foucault. The last update was back in April. Through the spring the book on Canguilhem was drafted, revised and then submitted to Polity Press on 4 … Continue reading

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Arjen Kleinherenbrink, Against Continuity: Gilles Deleuze’s Speculative Realism – Edinburgh UP, Jan 2019

Arjen Kleinherenbrink, Against Continuity: Gilles Deleuze’s Speculative Realism – Edinburgh UP, Jan 2019 Against Continuity is the first book to demonstrate that the beating heart of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy is a systematic ontology of irreducible, singular entities. This requires a … Continue reading

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Spaces of Crisis and Critique: Heterotopias Beyond Foucault, edited by Anthony Faramelli, David Hancock, Robert G. White – Bloomsbury September 2018

Spaces of Crisis and Critique: Heterotopias Beyond Foucault, edited by Anthony Faramelli, David Hancock, Robert G. White – Bloomsbury 2018. Unfortunately only hardback and expensive e-book. In Of Other Spaces Foucault coined the term “heterotopias” to signify “all the other … Continue reading

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Reading Derrida’s Geschlecht III: Responses to an Archival Discovery, Princeton, Oct 12-13 2018

Reading Derrida’s Geschlecht III: Responses to an Archival Discovery, Princeton, Oct 12-13 2018. Derrida wrote four papers on the theme of ‘Geschlecht’ – race, lineage, sex, and multiple other meanings – in Heidegger, publishing I, II and IV. The third … Continue reading

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‘Shakespeare, Richard II and the Political Economy of Territory’ – short piece at the Progress in Political Economy blog

I have a short piece at the Progress in Political Economy blog entitled ‘Shakespeare, Richard II and the Political Economy of Territory‘. Thanks to Adam David Morton for the invitation to contribute. Shakespeare has long been seen as a writer … Continue reading

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Kingston Shakespeare Series Conference: Shakespeare and Derrida, 1 September 2018

Kingston Shakespeare Series Conference: Shakespeare and Derrida, 1 September 2018, Garrick’s Temple, Hampton – initial details here. This follows various other conferences on Shakespeare and theorists – I spoke at the one on Shakespeare and Foucault last month – and … Continue reading

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