Category Archives: People

Peter Gratton’s lectures from his New Derrida course

At his Philosophy in a Time of Error blog, Peter Gratton is sharing the lectures from his New Derrida course – lecture one (introduction) and lecture two (‘The Animal’). [Update: Lecture three is here]. I won’t continually link to new lectures as they go … Continue reading

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Goldsmiths Seminar Series – Rhythmanalysis: Everything You Always Wanted To Know But Were Afraid To Ask

This CHASE-funded seminar series foregrounds rhythm and rhythmanalysis by highlighting their relevance and richness as methodological perspectives and practices within the humanities. The six sessions will explore various approaches to time and rhythm as those found in the work of key critical theorists, … Continue reading

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Books received – Binswanger, Canguilhem, Lacan

Some books for the new Foucault project – works by Georges Canguilhem and Jacques Lacan, picked up in Paris, and Jacqueline Verdeaux’s translation of Ludwig Binswanger’s Dream and Existence which Foucault advised and introduced.

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Roland Barthes’s ‘Mythologies’: A 60th Anniversary Invitation

Roland Barthes’s ‘Mythologies’: A 60th Anniversary Invitation In 1957, the French literary theorist Roland Barthes (1915-1980) published Mythologies (Seuil, 1957), his most influential book, and perhaps one of the best-known books written by a 20th century French thinker. The book was a collection of … Continue reading

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William E Connolly on Trump, Putin and the Big Lie Scenario

I don’t imagine I will share many links about Trump, but here’s one that’s worth reading – William E Connolly on ‘Trump, Putin and the Big Lie Scenario‘.  

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Foucault and the Modern International – new collection (and my essay preprint)

Foucault and the Modern International: Silences and Legacies for the Study of World Politics is a new collection with Palgrave, edited by Philippe Bonditti with Didier Bigo and Frédéric Gros. This book addresses the possibilities of analyzing the modern international through the thought of Michel Foucault. … Continue reading

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Encounters in Law and Philosophy – call for book proposals

Encounters in Law and Philosophy – call for book proposals Series Editors: Thanos Zartaloudis, University of Kent Anton Schütz, Birkbeck, University of London General Advisor: Giorgio Agamben This series simultaneously investigates the laws of philosophy and the philosophies of law: their formations, … Continue reading

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Nicolas Drolc’s new film on Serge Livrozet (trailer)

I’ve mentioned Nicolas Drolc’s film Sur les toits before. It’s a documentary on the prison revolts in the early 1970s France, with some references to the Prisons Information Group Foucault co-founded. There is an open access symposium on the film, following … Continue reading

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Etienne Balibar – From Althusserian Marxism to the Philosophies of Marx? Twenty Years After

Etienne Balibar “From Althusserian Marxism to the Philosophies of Marx?” – a reflection on his The Philosophy of Marx, twenty (three) years after. The book has been reissued by Verso, with some new material, and is currently on sale.

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Books received – Spitzer, Foucault, RIPE, TCS, Binswanger

Foucault translated an essay in this Spitzer collection (see my query over dating here); the first edition of Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique; Binswanger’s analysis of Suzanne Urban; and the new issues of RIPE and TCS. … Continue reading

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