Category Archives: People

Foucault, ‘Stultifera Navis’ – a hybrid translation

Michael Bibby has produced a hybrid translation of the ‘Stultifera Navis’ chapter of Foucault’s History of Madness. It draws on both the existing English translations, and comes with various texts as an introduction and a selection of images.

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Hegel, Our Untimely Contemporary – conference with Slavoj Žižek

May 10-12, 2013, The Birkbeck Institute, London – full details here (via Verso blog) Hegel is the ultimate bête noire of the last two centuries of philosophy:proponents of Lebensphilosophie, existentialists from Kierkegaard onwards, materialists, historicists, analytic philosophers and empiricists, Marxists, … Continue reading

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Wendy Brown interview at Critical Legal Thinking

Wendy Brown is interviewed at Critical Legal Thinking about her work and contemporary politics. Thanks to Andrew Burridge for the link.

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Chris Harker on Judith Butler’s Parting Ways

My Durham colleague Chris Harker discusses Judith Butler’s Parting Ways – here and here.

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Boko Haram, Shakespeare and Territory – talks at L.S.E. and Aberystwyth

I’m giving three talks this coming week – at the London School of Economics and Aberystwyth University. At the L.S.E. I’ll be giving the first version on a paper under the working title of “Nigeria’s ‘War on Terror’: The Geopolitics … Continue reading

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Books received

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Thomas Nail, Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo

Thomas Nail’s Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo is reviewed at NDPR. We are witnessing the return of political revolution. However, this is not a return to the classical forms of revolution: the capture of the state, the political … Continue reading

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Manet: Portraying Life

London’s Royal Academy of Arts has a new exhibition Manet: Portraying Life. It runs from 26 January to 14 April 2013 with advance booking advised. Foucault wrote a manuscript on Manet which is believed to be destroyed, but lectures have been … Continue reading

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Boko Haram – An Annotated Bibliography

  Update 27 March 2013 – an updated version of this bibliography is available here. This is an incomplete bibliography, but includes the pieces I’ve read while writing a piece on questions of territory in relation to Boko Haram (see … Continue reading

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Timothy Morton, Realist Magic

Timothy Morton’s new book Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality is now available to read online open access – print and pdf to follow presumably.

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