Category Archives: People

CFP ‘Time Served: Discipline and Punish forty years on’ – 11-12 Sept 2015, The Galleries of Justice, Nottingham, UK

Posted on behalf of Sophie Fuggle – a call for papers for a fascinating sounding Foucault conference next year, in an intriguing venue. I’ll be giving one of the plenary talks. Time Served: Discipline and Punish forty years on 11-12 … Continue reading

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Audio recordings of the Emory conference on Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’

The audio files for the Emory University Conference “Heidegger’s Black Notebooks: Philosophy, Politics, Anti-Semitism” –which were already available on iTunes–  have also been uploaded on YouTube. Thanks to Philippe Theophanidis for the links.

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Foucault’s Collaborative Projects – some updates

I’ve updated this blog’s page on Foucault’s Collaborative Projects. The page discusses Généalogie du capital; Généalogie des équipements de normalisation; Les machines à guérir; Politiques de l’habitat and Génealogie de la défense sociale en Belgique.

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Schindel and Colombo (eds.) Space and the Memories of Violence

This looks an interesting collection – Estela Schindel and Pamela Colombo (eds.), Space and the Memories of Violence: Landscapes of Erasure, Disappearance and Exception. The final chapter is an interview with David Harvey. This volume offers a variety of perspectives on the relation between violence, memory … Continue reading

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Books received – Klein on Climate Change, Skinner on Shakespeare, Lefebvre on Marx, Deleuze & Fascism

A re-edition of one of Henri Lefebvre’s books on Marx; Deleuze and Fascism, edited by Brad Evans and Julian Reid; Quentin Skinner’s Forensic Shakespeare; Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything; and the new issues of RIPE and TCS.

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“Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth”, University of Nottingham Centre for Critical Theory lecture, Nottingham Contemporary, 12 November 2014

[Update: the video of the event is now available here.] On 12 November 2014, I’ll be giving a University of Nottingham Centre for Critical Theory lecture at Nottingham Contemporary gallery. The title is “Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth”, and I’ll be … Continue reading

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Graham and McFarlane (eds.) Infrastructural Lives: Urban Infrastructure in Context

A new collection edited by two former colleagues – Stephen Graham and Colin McFarlane. Infrastructural Lives is the first book to describe the everyday experience and politics of urban infrastructures. It focuses on a range of infrastructures in both the … Continue reading

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Foucault Studies 18 now published – includes two translations of Foucault, all open access

Foucault Studies 18 is now published. A wide range of contents including a theme section on ‘Ethnographies of Neoliberal Governmentalities’; translations of Foucault’s 1979 version of ‘Politics of Health in the Eighteenth Century‘ and his review of Jacques Ruffié, De la … Continue reading

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Symposium on Mark Neocleous, War Power, Police Power – LSE, 20 November 2014

Details of a book symposium on Mark Neocleous’s latest – War Power, Police Power.

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Henri Lefebvre, Vers une architecture de la jouissance

While there is a published translation into English, Henri Lefebvre’s 1973 manuscript Vers une architecture de la jouissance has, until now, not been available in French. Now an excerpt has been published in Criticat, and a full edition may be forthcoming. This issue of … Continue reading

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