Category Archives: People

How people die in Shakespeare’s tragedies

via Biblioklept.

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Mark Kelly, Foucault’s ‘History of Sexuality Volume I, The Will to Knowledge’

Mark Kelly’s guide to Foucault’s ‘History of Sexuality Volume I, The Will to Knowledge’ is now out. Mark is the author of the very good The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault – I examined the PhD that was based on … Continue reading

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Foucault Studies 15

Foucault Studies issue 15, a theme issue on religion with a number of essays on that topic and an interview with James Bernauer, is now available. Also a number of other essays and reviews. Full contents list – and links … Continue reading

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David Harvey at Warwick – The Contradictions of Capital

The Contradictions of Capital, University of Warwick, Distinguished Lecture Series, 14 February 2013 (via Reading Capital).

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Foucault – Lectures on the Will to Know

Graham Burchell’s transiton of Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know is scheduled for publication in June 2013 (via Foucault News). You can read my review of the French text at Berfrois. Here’s the publisher blurb: This volume gives us … Continue reading

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Jeff Malpas interviewed at 3am magazine

Interesting essay with Jeff Malpas on Heidegger, Gadamer, Davidson and landscape at 3am Magazine – parts one and two. (thanks to Dirk Felleman for the link)

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Books received

Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (really wanted this to re-read Sartre’s preface); Michael Mack’s How Literature Changes the Way we Think; Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou’s Disposession; David Chandler’s Freedom vs Necessity in International Relations; an old New Left … Continue reading

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Radical Philosophy 178 now out

 Commentary: Resisting Resilience, Mark Neocleous Article: Extraction, logistics, finance Global crisis and the politics of operations – Sandro Mezzadra  and Brett Neilson Article: An introduction to Françoise Collin’s ‘Name of the father’, Penelope Deutscher Article: Name of the Father, ‘One’ of … Continue reading

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The Political Bodies of Coriolanus

The audio recording of my Politics, Philosophy and International Thought lecture at Aberystwyth University is available here. It’s a part of the planned Shakespearean Territories book, and this time I talked about Coriolanus – mainly the play but also the … Continue reading

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Mark Purcell, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy

Mark Purcell’s new book, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy, is now available to pre-order. It has very positive endorsements from Peter Marcuse and Susan Fainstein. The book uses Lefebvre, among others, to think about politics, the urban and democracy. Mark … Continue reading

Posted in Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Negri, Books, Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Rancière, Michael Hardt, Politics, urban/urbanisation | 3 Comments