Category Archives: People

Daniel Louis Wyche, The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other. From Spiritual Exercises to Political Transformation – Columbia University Press, May 2025

Daniel Louis Wyche, The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other. From Spiritual Exercises to Political Transformation – Columbia University Press, May 2025 thanks to Foucault News for the link What is the relationship between the ethical transformation of … Continue reading

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Georges Bataille, Critical Essays 2 – updating the list of English translations of Oeuvres complètes on this site

With the publication of Georges Bataille, Critical Essays Volume 2: 1949-51 (trans. Chris Turner, eds. Alberto Toscano and Benjamin Noys), English readers now have access to all of the essays in volume 11 of Bataille’s Œuvres complètes and a good … Continue reading

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Kathryn Vomero Santos, Shakespeare in Tongues – Routledge, June 2025

Kathryn Vomero Santos, Shakespeare in Tongues – Routledge, June 2025 Shakespeare in Tongues interrogates the popular conflation of “the language of Shakespeare” with English by examining the role Shakespeare’s works have played in overlapping histories of colonialism, slavery, and migration that … Continue reading

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Books received – Denman, Jakobson, Harari, Derrida, Foucault, Fischer-Jørgensen

Derek S. Denman, Fortress Power: Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control, second-hand copies of Roman Jakobson, Six Lectures on Sound and Meaning, Josué V. Harari, Scenarios of the Imaginary, Eli Fischer-Jørgensen, Trends in Phonological Theory: A Historical Introduction, and … Continue reading

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Two Greek Words for Kings and the Question of Territory: Wanax, Basileus and Émile Benveniste’s Vocabulaire

In his Vocabulaire, the Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society, Émile Benveniste mentions some questions relating to spatiality and territory that I have briefly surveyed here. One question he raised I said was worthy of further attention. In his French text, and its English … Continue reading

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CFP: Foucault’s Archaeology: Sources, Questions and Legacy – June 2026

CFP: Foucault’s Archaeology: Sources, Questions and Legacy – June 2026 Discipline Filosofiche, XXXVI, 2, 2026: Foucault’s Archaeology: Sources, Questions and Legacy, ed. by Elisabetta Basso and Andrea Cavazzini In Michel Foucault’s published and unpublished writings, between Naissance de la Clinique … Continue reading

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Erica Moiah James, After Caliban: Caribbean Art in a Global Imaginary – Duke University Press, October 2025

Erica Moiah James, After Caliban: Caribbean Art in a Global Imaginary – Duke University Press, October 2025 The introduction is available open access now. In After Caliban, Erica Moiah James examines the rise of global Caribbean artists in the 1990s and … Continue reading

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Michael Kelly, Modern French Marxism, expanded and revised 2nd edition, Brill (Historical Materialism series), May 2025

Michael Kelly, Modern French Marxism, expanded and revised 2nd edition, Brill (Historical Materialism series), May 2025 Books in this series published in paperback with Haymarket 12 months later. Marxist thought was a powerful force in French political and intellectual life … Continue reading

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Georges Canguilhem, Œuvres complètes Tome VI : Écrits philosophiques complémentaires, conférences publiques, lettres choisies – eds. Camille Limoges and Pierre-Olivier Méthot, Vrin, July 2025

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CFP: After the Death of the Human: Michel Foucault’s 100th Anniversary International Conference, University of Lisbon, 18-19 June 2026

CFP: After the Death of the Human: Michel Foucault’s 100th Anniversary International Conference, University of Lisbon, 18-19 June 2026

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