Category Archives: People

Books received – Foucault, Binswanger, Lacan

Some recently bought books for the project on the early Foucault – a seminar by Lacan which he likely attended, some works by Binswanger and the original source of one of his first publications.

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Books received – author copies of Foucault: The Birth of Power

The remaining author copies of Foucault: The Birth of Power – which means that the book is now shipping if you order direct. Amazon etc. might take a bit longer to have stocks…  

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Eyal Weizman, Forensic Architecture – forthcoming from Zone

Eyal Weizman, Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability – forthcoming from Zone. This builds on the work of his Forensic Architecture research agency at Goldsmiths. In recent years, a little-known research group named Forensic Architecture began using novel research … Continue reading

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Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History – David Harvey video lectures

Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History A Series of Six Video Lectures in Political Economy by David Harvey CAPITAL AS VALUE IN MOTION VALUE AND ANTI-VALUE VALUE AND ITS MONETARY EXPRESSION THE SPACE AND TIME OF VALUE … Continue reading

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A year in review – talks, publications and writing, plus links to my ‘best-of’ lists

I began 2016 with a lengthy manuscript on the 1969-75 period of Foucault’s work, partly developed from the large sections cut from the manuscript of Foucault’s Last Decade. The main task accomplished in the first part of this year was … Continue reading

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An early Christmas present – an advance copy of Foucault: The Birth of Power

Just before I head off on holiday, an advance copy of Foucault: The Birth of Power. The book will be available in the UK in January and a little later worldwide. There is a short post about it on the Polity … Continue reading

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Academic Books of 2016 – my personal list

Many of the academic books I read this year were for the Foucault and Shakespeare work, and few were published this year. This alphabetical list is of the twenty books published this year which I read and liked the most. … Continue reading

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Danger, Crime and Rights: A 1983 Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon (open access)

Although it was available online earlier this year, “Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon” is formally published in Theory, Culture & Society , Vol 34 No 1, pp. 3-27. It is currently available open … Continue reading

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Derek Gregory’s Geographical Imaginations blog guide

Derek Gregory’s ever-interesting Geographical Imaginations blog now has a guide to past posts, grouped by theme. I’ve been pleased to see how often old posts are consulted by readers: I never intended this to be a fleet of ships passing … Continue reading

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Judith Butler – Borders and the Politics of Mourning video (keynote and discussion)

Judith Butler – Borders and the Politics of Mourning Panel discussion with Maurizio Albahari, Alexandra Délano, Jenny Edkins, Burkhard Liebsch, and Benjamin Nienass, followed by comments from Banu Bargu and Anne McNevin.

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