Category Archives: People

Organisational Space and Beyond: The Significance of Henri Lefebvre for Organisation Studies – new edited collection

Organisational Space and Beyond: The Significance of Henri Lefebvre for Organisation Studies, edited by Karen Dale, Sytze F. Kingma, Varda Wasserman Through the focus on organizational space, using the reception and significance of the seminal work on the subject by sociologist Henri Lefebvre, … Continue reading

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Foucault, La Sexualité – 1964 course from Clermont-Ferrand scheduled for October 2018

The publication of Foucault’s courses from the 1950s and 1960s has been planned for some time, and now his 1964 course from Clermont-Ferrand La sexualité is listed as forthcoming in October 2018. Limited details at the moment, but here are the listings … Continue reading

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Shakespearean Territories (forthcoming Oct 2018, University of Chicago Press) – endorsements and description

Three very generous endorsements of Shakespearean Territories – from a philosopher, geographer and literary theorist. The book is forthcoming in October 2018 from University of Chicago Press and is available to preorder from usual outlets. “Shakespearean Territories is a truly groundbreaking volume … Continue reading

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Verso Radical Thinkers set 16 – Therborn, Bloch, Benner, Heller

Verso Radical Thinkers set 16 – Göran Therborn, From Marxism to Post-Marxism? Ernst Bloch, On Karl Marx Erica Benner, Really Existing Nationalisms Agnes Heller, The Theory of Need in Marx 

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Foucault Studies 24 published – with new Foucault translation, feature on Foucaudian Spaces, and review of Subjectivity and Truth (open access)

Foucault Studies 24 published – with new Foucault translation, feature on Foucaudian Spaces, and my review of the Subjectivity and Truth lecture course. Editorial Editorial – Special Issue, Foucauldian Spaces Sverre Raffnsøe PDF 1-5 Section in collaboration with Foucault Circle … Continue reading

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Understanding Henri Lefebvre published in Korean translation (with text of English version of new preface)

My 2004 book Understanding Henri Lefebvre: Theory and the Possible has been published in Korean translation by Kyungsung University Press. My two recent Foucault books are also forthcoming in Korean with Nanjing Publishing House. (If anyone has a link to the … Continue reading

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CFP: Third Meeting of the Critical Genealogies Workshop, Eugene, OR, 9-11 May 2019

Call for Papers: Third Meeting of the Critical Genealogies Workshop University of Oregon in Eugene, OR May 9–11, 2019 The Critical Genealogies Workshop provides a space of collaboration and experimentation for scholars who deploy genealogy in order to investigate problematizations of … Continue reading

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Adam David Morton on Victor Serge at Progress in Political Economy

Adam David Morton on Victor Serge – a Progress in Political Economy blogpost linked to a new article. One of the most striking features of Victor Serge’s writings has to be the way he captures spatial arbiters that shape the … Continue reading

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Future work and summer plans – Shakespeare, Canguilhem, Lefebvre and back to Foucault

Although the Shakespeare Territories book is coming out in a few months, I’ve been back working on Shakespeare. Initially this was for a summary article of the book’s argument for a short article for Territory, Politics, Governance, which should be … Continue reading

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Books received – Logistical Worlds, Bachelard, Serres, Cremonesi et al, de Beistegui, Strang et al

Logistical Worlds (sent by the publisher), Gaston Bachelard, The Dialectic of Duration, Michel Serres, The Birth of Physics, Laura Cremonesi et al eds, Foucault and the Making of Subjects (all recompense for review work), Miguel de Beistegui, The Government of Desire: A Genealogy of the … Continue reading

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