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Michel Foucault, What Is Critique? & The Culture of the Self – trans. Clare O’Farrell, University of Chicago Press, January 2024

Michel Foucault, What Is Critique? & The Culture of the Self, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini, and Arnold I. Davidson, translated by Clare O’Farrell, University of Chicago Press, January 2024 Newly published lectures by Foucault on critique, Enlightenment, and the … Continue reading

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Jacques Derrida, Hospitality – two volumes of the seminar, November 2023 and April 2024

Jacques Derrida, Hospitality – two volumes, University of Chicago Press Volume I, translated by E. S. Burt, edited by Pascale-Anne Brault and Peggy Kamuf, November 2023 Volume II, translated by Peggy Kamuf, edited by Pascale-Anne Brault and Peggy Kamuf, April … Continue reading

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Arundhati Roy, The Architecture of Modern Empire: Conversations with David Barsamian – Haymarket, March 2024, foreword by Naomi Klein

Arundhati Roy, The Architecture of Modern Empire: Conversations with David Barsamian – Haymarket, March 2024 Available in print and e-book – and good to see the e-book priced much lower than the physical book. A revelatory and wide-ranging series of … Continue reading

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“Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon” – English text of the Turkish preface

“Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon” was published in Theory, Culture & Society in 2017. The transcribed discussion was edited and introduced by me and there is an afterword by Jonathan Simon. This article … Continue reading

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Some of my highlights on Progressive Geographies in 2023

I didn’t publish much this past year – The Archaeology of Foucault has a 2023 date but was officially published in December 2022, and the special issue of Theory, Culture and Society on Foucault was completed some time before. I … Continue reading

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 16: archive work in the UK and working around the British Library disruption

With the British Library still offline and so largely unusable, and without a trip to Paris this month, I’ve mainly been working at home, though with a few side trips to libraries and archives in the UK. SOAS has a special collections … Continue reading

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My favourite academic books of 2023

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked. The criteria was that they were published in that year, and that I read and liked them. This means that good books which came out … Continue reading

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Foucault Studies 35, special issue on Covid – Biopolitical Tensions after Pandemic Times

Foucault Studies 35, special issue on Covid – Biopolitical Tensions after Pandemic Times

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Peter Sloterdijk, Out of the World – Stanford University Press, May 2024

Peter Sloterdijk, Out of the World – Stanford University Press, May 2024 In this essential early work, the preeminent European philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary meditation on humanity’s tendency to refuse the world. Developing the first seeds … Continue reading

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CFP: International Conference on Change, Belgrade, 13-15 June 2024

CFP: International Conference on Change, Belgrade, 13-15 June 2024 With the confirmed participation of Étienne Balibar, Axel Honneth, and Jonathan Wolff.

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