Category Archives: People

Reading Kant’s Geography

Just finished doing the proofs of Reading Kant’s Geography. It’s a long book (ix + 372 pages without index), but I think it’s a good read – I feel I can be slightly objective since I co-edited it, rather than … Continue reading →

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Audio files of lectures on Foucault’s 82-83 course

Audio files of lectures on Foucault’s 82-83 course on The Government of Self and Others are available here. This was a workshop at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, now at Kingston, on 2nd December 2010.

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Sloterdijk – Neither Sun nor Death delayed

Neither Sun nor Death – the volume of interviews with Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs – still doesn’t appear to be out, despite being scheduled for November. The title comes from the claim that neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a … Continue reading →

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Reactions to Terror and Territory

A generous post commenting on Terror and Territory, by Devin Shaw, can be found here. Very generous: it claims that my account of sovereignty is “more nuanced than Agamben’s”; and that for a take on the rhetoric of the neo-cons, … Continue reading →

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Further Reading

More books received recently… Jeppe Strandsbjerg, Territory, Globalisation and International Relations: The Cartographic Reality of Space – I wrote an endorsement for this, and it’s good to see it out. Needless to say it is highly recommended. Nathan Widder, Reflections on … Continue reading →

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ALGC conference – Aberystwyth

Speaking of Connolly, he is the keynote speaker at this conference – I spoke at the one earlier this yearand it’s highly recommended as an interesting intellectual space. The 9th Aberystwyth-Lancaster Graduate Colloquium 2nd- 4th June 2011 Department of International … Continue reading →

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Connolly’s World

An exciting looking new book by William E. Connolly, A World of Becoming, is forthcoming, apparently this month. Full details here, but here’s the description. In A World of Becoming William E. Connolly outlines a political philosophy suited to a world … Continue reading →

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Reading List

One of the things about being away is the mountain of post to deal with on my return. These are the books received while away… some were bought, some were gifts, some were payment for reviews Peter E. Gordon, Continental … Continue reading →

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Alain Badiou, Five Lessons on Wagner

Alain Badiou – new translation of his book Five Lessons on Wagner is out with Verso. Also has an afterward by Slavoj Žižek.

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Free Wu Ming

You can download Verso’s translation of Wu Ming’s most recent book, Manituana, free here.

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