Category Archives: People

Saskia Sassen on Disposable Life (video)

Posted on December 31, 2014 by stuartelden

Saskia Sassen discusses ‘disposable life’ for the Histories of Violence project. This covers similar themes to her Expulsions book. Thanks to Oli Mould for the link. Disposable Life – Saskia Sassen from HISTORIES OF VIOLENCE on Vimeo.

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David Harvey, The Crisis of Planetary Urbanization (open access essay)

Posted on December 30, 2014 by stuartelden

David Harvey’s essay for the exhibition catalog of Uneven Growth Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities is published here on post to mark the opening of the exhibition. (via Reading Capital with David Harvey)  

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David Harvey, “I’m skeptical about the idea of reforming neoliberalism” – translation of Spanish interview

Posted on December 30, 2014 by stuartelden

A Spanish interview with David Harvey has been translated at My Desiring Machines. I’m not sure if it was conducted in Spanish or this is a re-translation. Anyway, it’s nice to have it available. It was posted in parts, but … Continue reading →

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Judith Butler, ‘Human Shield’ – lecture at LSE 4 February 2015

Posted on December 29, 2014 by stuartelden

Judith Butler, ‘Human Shield’ – lecture at LSE on 4 February 2015 (details) Recent debates about human shields in the summer bombardment of Gaza raised the question of how the unarmed human form comes to be regarded as a military instrument. … Continue reading →

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Foucault – uncollected notes, lectures and interviews, a list on Progressive Geographies

Posted on December 29, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve made a list of uncollected notes, lectures and interviews by Michel Foucault. Many of these have been posted on this site before, but this is an attempt at collecting details and links in one place. There are a couple of scans … Continue reading →

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The other Henri Lefebvre – excerpt from The Missing Pieces in Berfrois

Posted on December 28, 2014 by stuartelden

Although it appears in at least one bibliography of the better-known Henri Lefebvre, Les unités perdues, translated as The Missing Pieces, is actually by a different author, born in 1959. It’s an interesting book on abandoned, lost, destroyed, forgotten and unfinished works, … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s preparatory notes to Les mots et les choses (The Order of Things)

Posted on December 24, 2014 by stuartelden

This isn’t recent news, but I hadn’t seen this before. Foucault’s preparatory notes to Les mots et les choses (The Order of Things) are available online at La bibliothèque de Foucault : Guide des papiers de travail de Michel Foucault. The … Continue reading →

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Foucault on Parrhesia – translation of a 1982 lecture forthcoming in Critical Inquiry

Posted on December 24, 2014 by stuartelden

A lecture by Foucault in 1982 at Université de Grenoble, on “Parrēsia” was first published in French in 2012 in the journal Anabases. Another lecture from this same trip, “Rêver de ses plaisirs”, was published in 1983, and is a variant of … Continue reading →

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Foucault and Iran (and Ernst Bloch) – an August 1979 interview newly available in French

Posted on December 23, 2014 by stuartelden

Thanks to a reader who wishes to remain anonymous for sending me these details of an interview with Foucault about Iran conducted in August 1979, which was first published in French in 2013. I’ve stumbled upon an interview with Foucault from this era … Continue reading →

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Foucault and Simeon Wade – and the elusive ‘Chez Foucault’ publication

Posted on December 23, 2014 by stuartelden

Last week I posted about Time magazine’s profile of Foucault from 1981. The piece included this photograph: James Miller‘s biography of Foucault says that this picture was of Simeon Wade, and Wade’s friend ‘Michael’ (The Passion of Michel Foucault, pp. 437-8 n. 1). … Continue reading →

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