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Anthony K. Jensen, Nietzsche’s Philosophy of History reviewed at NDPR

Posted on February 10, 2014 by stuartelden

Anthony K. Jensen, Nietzsche’s Philosophy of History is reviewed by Andrew Huddleston at NDPR. With the exception perhaps of Hegel, no major philosopher before Nietzsche paid as much attention to history. In work after work, Nietzsche is concerned to show us that … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s back cover text for Surveiller et punir – scan, French, English translation

Posted on February 9, 2014 by stuartelden

Jeremy Crampton recently provided an image of the original back cover for Foucault’s Surveiller et punir, including a text signed ‘M.F.’   The text has now been transcribed and translated by Philippe Theophanidis at his Aphelis blog. Incidentally, the Gallimard Tel edition I … Continue reading →

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AAG program online – breakfast with The Birth of Territory

Posted on February 8, 2014 by stuartelden

The Tampa 2014 Association of American Geographers conference program is now online. Someone has to have the 8am on Saturday slot, and this year it’s the author meets critics session for The Birth of Territory. I’m also in a panel discussing … Continue reading →

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Urban Theory Lab at Harvard’s GSD – new website

Posted on February 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Neil Brenner’s Urban Theory Lab at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design has a really good new website. Among other things there is “Introducing the Urban Theory Lab” – a kind of manifesto and mission statement; links to various projects and … Continue reading →

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Manifesto of the Groupe d’Information sur les prisons – a full translation

Posted on February 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
This text was co-authored by Michel Foucault, Pierre Vidal-Nacquet and Jean-Marie Domenach, and was first read at a news conference on 8 February 1971. It was subsequently published in Esprit in March 1971. As far as…

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Foucault “Discourse and Truth. The Problematization of Parrhesia”

Posted on February 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Open Geography:
      Does anyone know if Foucault’s 1983 lecture series “Discourse and Truth the Problematization of Parrhesia” has ever been put online in the above format? I don’t mean the audio lectures, the book…

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Foucault’s Last Decade – eighth update

Posted on February 7, 2014 by stuartelden

The first thing I did on arrival in Melbourne was finish work on a short piece on Grégoire Chamayou’s Manhunts for The Funambulist, which returns to some of the arguments I’ve made about Foucault and territory. I’m grateful to Léopold … Continue reading →

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REMEDIAEVAL: Proposal for a New Minigraph Book Series

Posted on February 7, 2014 by stuartelden

In the Middle has news of an interesting publishing venture from Eileen Joy and Karl Steel – REMEDIAEVAL, a New Minigraph Book Series. Here’s a couple of paragraphs, but you should really check out the whole post: Currently, the Middle Ages … Continue reading →

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RSC new season announced – Love’s Labour’s Lost and Won

Posted on February 6, 2014 by stuartelden

The RSC have announced the productions of their autumn/winter 2014-15 season. The plan, starting with Richard II last season, and continuing with the two parts of Henry IV and Two Gentlemen of Verona this coming summer, is to produce all of Shakespeare’s plays … Continue reading →

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Giorgio Agamben – From the State of Control to a Praxis of Destituent Power

Posted on February 5, 2014 by stuartelden

Faced with absolute state control and the rapid eradication of political society, only a theory and praxis of destituent power can reclaim democracy. This is the transcript of a public lecture by Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben delivered to a packed … Continue reading →

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