Category Archives: People

Kanthropology – CRMEP Graduate Conference 19-20 May 2016

Kanthropology – CRMEP Graduate Conference, Kingston University, 19-20 May 2016 “The mainstream marginalization of Kant’s anthropological writings, in part due to their racist content, arguably makes philosophy ill-equipped to think some of today’s most pressing concerns, notably with regard to … Continue reading

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Peter Sloterdijk, Not Saved: Essays after Heidegger – forthcoming in late 2016 from Polity

Not Saved: Essays after Heidegger, translation by Ian Alexander Moore and Christopher Turner, Cambridge, Polity Press, forthcoming November 2016.

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Jacques Bidet, Foucault with Marx

Jacques Bidet, Foucault with Marx is now out with Zed books. While I confess to being a bit disappointed with this, the book has some good advance praise from Etienne Balibar and Bob Jessop… ‘The ongoing confrontation between Marx and … Continue reading

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Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth course due in English in October 2016

Foucault’s 1980-81 course, Subjectivity and Truth, is due for publication in English in October/November 2016. Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for alerting me to this. At the moment details are few, but the price is high at £82 or $119. I hope … Continue reading

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Books received – Arden Shakespeare and Stuff Theory

I recently did some review work for Bloomsbury, and asked for a number of the revised editions of the Arden Shakespeare; the one volume I didn’t already have; and Maurizia Boscagli’s Stuff Theory, in recompense.

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 13: Another (final?) trip to the Bibliothèque Nationale archive

While waiting for the reader reports on Foucault: The Birth of Power I have been almost exclusively working on Shakespeare. That project is taking shape, and I’ve been developing conference and seminar papers into more polished prose, with fuller notes … Continue reading

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Books received – Foucault, Shakespeare, Alio, Farge, Spriet

Some recent books bought – most for the Shakespeare work, but a few Foucault-related. Eliane Alio worked with Foucault at the Collège de France, and was an assistant on the book he wrote with Arlette Farge. Foucault’s book with Farge … Continue reading

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Michael Naas on forms of life in Plato – audio recording

Michael Naas on forms of life in Plato – audio recording from a talk at Memorial University of Newfoundland. A fascinating talk on bios and zoe throughout Plato’s work – which adds much needed nuance to the rather crude distinction Agamben … Continue reading

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Peter Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason reissued by Verso

Peter Sloterdijk’s first major work Critique of Cynical Reason, translated by Michael Eldred, has been reissued by Verso. When it was first published in West Germany, this book provoked both critical acclaim and widespread consternation, especially among the 1960s generation whose … Continue reading

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Sara Ahmed interviews Judith Butler in Sexualities (open access)

Sara Ahmed interviews Judith Butler in Sexualities (open access) – the interview is mainly about Gender Trouble.

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