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Dawn Lyon, Rhythmanalysis: Research Methods – Bloomsbury, December 2020

Dawn Lyon, Rhythmanalysis: Research Methods – Bloomsbury, December 2020 First published as What is Rhythmanalysis?, this title is now available as part of the Bloomsbury Research Methods series. In recent years, there has been growing interest in Henri Lefebvre’s posthumously published … Continue reading

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Azucena G. Blanco, Literature and Politics in the Later Foucault – De Gruyter, November 2020 (currently open access e-book)

Azucena G. Blanco, Literature and Politics in the Later Foucault – De Gruyter, November 2020. This appears to be currently open access as an e-book. This study proposes a revised interpretation of Foucault’s views on literature. It has been argued … Continue reading

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Samantha Rose Hill, Hannah Arendt and the politics of truth – Open Democracy; and details of her book on Arendt – Reaktion, May 2021

Samantha Rose Hill, Hannah Arendt and the politics of truth – Open Democracy Her book Hannah Arendt is forthcoming with Reaktion in 2021 Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century and her work … Continue reading

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Louis Althusser, What is to be Done? – Polity, December 2020

Louis Althusser, What is to be Done? translated by G.M. Goshgarian, Polity, December 2020 What is to be done? This was the question asked by Lenin in 1901 when he was having doubts about the revolutionary capabilities of the Russian working class. … Continue reading

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Penser/Panser avec Bernard Stiegler – tribute organised by Peter Szendy and Emily Apter

Penser/Panser avec Bernard Stiegler – tribute organised by Peter Szendy and Emily Apter – with Achille Mbembe, Shaj Mohan, Michel Deguy, Divya Dwivedi, Martin Crowley, Katie Chenoweth, Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz, Alexander Galloway, Claire Colebrook, Jean-Luc Nancy. Thanks to dmf for the … Continue reading

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Juliet J. Fall, “Dear Carl”: thinking visually and geographically about public figures – Geographica Helvetica (open access)

I don’t often share journal articles, but this is an interesting and innovative piece which is also available open access, on the contested legacy of Carl Vogt. Juliet J. Fall, “Dear Carl”: thinking visually and geographically about public figures – … Continue reading

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Books received – Montinari, Dumézil, Othmani, Lazreg, Deleuze, Watkin, BNF

All bought this time, mainly for the ongoing Foucault work. Marnia Lazreg’s Foucault’s Orient is now in paperback, and finally got a copy of Christopher Watkin’s Michel Serres: Figures of Thought. Ahmed Othmani was one of Foucault’s students in Tunisia, … Continue reading

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Books received – Hadot, Nail, TCS on Barthes, Eco, Ewald, Billé

Some books waiting for me in the office – The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot, Thomas Nail, Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion, the Theory, Culture & Society special issue on Neutral Life/Late Barthes, Umberto Eco, The Role of the … Continue reading

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 3: Early versions of some texts, the Port-Royal Grammar, Foucault’s work on literature, Bataille and Nietzsche, and a writing break in Wales

A lot of the time recently has been spent revising The Early Foucault, but that is now done, and in the run-up to term I spent a bit of time on this manuscript. Ordinarily I’d have had to spend this time preparing teaching, … Continue reading

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Books received – Tesserach, Lévi-Strauss, Propp, Lukács, Ginzburg, Amoore, Dumézil, Harcourt, Sarkis

Some books bought second-hand, and some others from publishers, including Louise Amoore, Cloud Ethics; Bernard Harcourt, Critique and Praxis and Hashim Sarkis, Roi Salgueiro Barrio and Gabriel Kozlowski, The World as an Architectural Project.

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