Category Archives: People

Hannah Arendt’s marginalia to Heidegger’s Being and Time

Enowning shares the news from Bard College: The marginalia in Hannah Arendt copy of Being and Time. Just a few underlinings. More here. The disappointment, apart from the very few traces, is that this is of Being and Time in the Macquarrie and Robinson translation, … Continue reading

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Audio recording of talk on terrain and territory from AAG 2015

The audio recording of my 22 April 2015 AAG talk on ‘The Geophysics of Territory’ is available here (18 minutes). This was in sessions co-organised with Gastón Gordillo; Derek Gregory and Setha Low acted as discussants. The talk ranges across quite … Continue reading

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The Funambulist magazine – launch issue and subscription details

The Funambulist magazine – the new venture from Léopold Lambert to sit alongside his Funambulist blog and  Archipelago podcast – was launched this week. Léopold kindly gave me a copy when I saw him in Paris earlier this month. The first issue is on the … Continue reading

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Craig Dionne, Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene – forthcoming from Punctum

Craig Dionne, Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene – forthcoming from Punctum later this year. Part scholarship, part journalism, part ecological screed, this book may read like a mashup of critical perspectives. Like other current investigations into the ecological … Continue reading

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Foucault: The Birth of Power update 1 – initial work and another visit to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Foucault’s Last Decade is now in production. Over the past couple of weeks I have turned in earnest to the book on the earlier period, entitled Foucault: The Birth of Power. The initial work on this book was taking all … Continue reading

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Gastón Gordillo on The Insurgent Underground

Very interesting piece by Gastón Gordillo on his Space and Politics blog – The Insurgent Underground.

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Peter Meusburger, Derek Gregory and Laura Suarsana (eds.) Geographies of Knowledge and Power

An interesting-looking, but again expensive, collection: Peter Meusburger, Derek Gregory and Laura Suarsana (eds.) Geographies of Knowledge and Power. Interest in relations between knowledge, power, and space has a long tradition in a range of disciplines, but it was reinvigorated in the … Continue reading

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Janae Sholtz, The Invention of a People: Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political – reviewed at NDPR

Janae Sholtz, The Invention of a People: Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political – reviewed at NDPR by Antonio Calcagno. The topic sounds interesting, and the review notes that Sholtz discusses Kostas Axelos’s work as a way of developing Heidegger’s … Continue reading

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Michel Foucault’s Collège de France Lectures (1970-1984): 13 Years at the Collège, 13 Seminars at Columbia

Michel Foucault’s Collège de France Lectures (1970-1984): 13 Years at the Collège, 13 Seminars at Columbia Seyla Benhabib, Homi Bhabha, Judith Butler, Veena Das, François Ewald, Didier Fassin, James Faubion, Nancy Fraser, Frédéric Gros, Daniele Lorenzini, Nancy Luxon, Achille Mbembe, Paul … Continue reading

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Ian Hacking’s Collège de France courses online

This was news to me – Ian Hacking’s Collège de France courses, where he held the Chaire de philosophie et histoire des concepts scientifiques between 2001-2006, are online at his website.

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