Category Archives: People

Foucault Studies issue 13

A Special Issue on Foucault and Accounting guest edited by Andrea Mennicken & Peter Miller Issue 13 also includes original articles on parrhesia, classical scholarship and Foucault’s ‘German moment’ as well as a review essay on Foucault’s 1970-1971 course on … Continue reading

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William E. Connolly on Melancholia

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Development Dialogue new issue

Special issue on The End of the Development-Security Nexus? The Rise of Global Disaster Management – freely available. Stephen Graham, David Chandler, Mark Duffield, Julian Reid et. al.

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Slavoj Zizek, David Horowitz, Julian Assange

‘This was madness’. Indeed. Via the Verso blog.

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The Winter’s Tale and Henry V

I spent the last two evenings at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle, seeing the Propeller company do The Winter’s Tale and Henry V. They are an all-male company, which leads to some interesting scenes, though I thought it worked better for … Continue reading

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French Theory today

I linked to the audio of these some time back, but Alexander Galloway’s lectures on French Theory today are now available as pdf pamphlets, with commentaries. The lectures cover Catherine Malabou, Bernard Stiegler, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Quentin Meillassoux, and François … Continue reading

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Between Deleuze and Foucault

Website for a reallly interesting project – Between Deleuze and Foucault. Links to details of a conference, forthcoming book, forthcoming special issue of Foucault Studies, and the transcripts and audio of Deleuze’s 1985-1986 course on Foucault.

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CFP – Media & The Production of Urban Space

CALL FOR PAPERS The ECREA Temporary Working Group “Media & The City”, the ARC Research Centre at the Catholic University of Milan and First Monday are happy to announce their collaboration for a special issue of First Monday titled WAVES, … Continue reading

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Entretien avec Jean-Luc Nancy

Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy (in French) relating to his recent co-authored book Dans quels mondes vivons-nous?

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Gielgud as John of Gaunt

The speech in the last post begins about a minute and a half in. This is from the BBC production of the late 70s. A young Derek Jacobi is Richard.

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