Category Archives: Politics

Talks in Melbourne this month on The Birth of Territory

Posted on February 10, 2014 by stuartelden

I will be giving two talks on The Birth of Territory this month in Melbourne. 26 February 2014, 12.30pm, “The Birth of Territory”, Monash University, Melbourne (Room N502, Menzies Building, Clayton Campus) – flyer, website 27 February 2014, 5pm, “The Birth of Territory”, RMIT University, … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s back cover text for Surveiller et punir – scan, French, English translation

Posted on February 9, 2014 by stuartelden

Jeremy Crampton recently provided an image of the original back cover for Foucault’s Surveiller et punir, including a text signed ‘M.F.’   The text has now been transcribed and translated by Philippe Theophanidis at his Aphelis blog. Incidentally, the Gallimard Tel edition I … Continue reading →

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Urban Theory Lab at Harvard’s GSD – new website

Posted on February 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Neil Brenner’s Urban Theory Lab at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design has a really good new website. Among other things there is “Introducing the Urban Theory Lab” – a kind of manifesto and mission statement; links to various projects and … Continue reading →

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Manifesto of the Groupe d’Information sur les prisons – a full translation

Posted on February 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
This text was co-authored by Michel Foucault, Pierre Vidal-Nacquet and Jean-Marie Domenach, and was first read at a news conference on 8 February 1971. It was subsequently published in Esprit in March 1971. As far as…

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Giorgio Agamben – From the State of Control to a Praxis of Destituent Power

Posted on February 5, 2014 by stuartelden

Faced with absolute state control and the rapid eradication of political society, only a theory and praxis of destituent power can reclaim democracy. This is the transcript of a public lecture by Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben delivered to a packed … Continue reading →

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Authority & Political Technologies 2014 conference at Warwick – announcement and call for papers

Posted on February 4, 2014 by stuartelden

Authority & Political Technologies 2014                                                   Power in a World of Becoming, Entanglement & Attachment                           ‘In every era the attempt must be made anew to rescue tradition from a conformism … Continue reading →

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14,000 Images of the French Revolution Released Online

Posted on February 4, 2014 by stuartelden

An amazing collection of images at the French Revolution Digital Archive – a collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (via Hyperallergic – thanks to Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz and Sebastian Budgen for the link).

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Eyal Weizman – The Architecture of Ariel Sharon

Posted on February 4, 2014 by stuartelden

Eyal Weizman discusses Sharon’s architectural and spatial legacy at Al Jazeera. Whether in military uniform or in politics, Ariel Sharon’s time in power was characterised by construction and destruction frenzies that decisively shaped the physical realities in which both Israelis and … Continue reading →

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The Productive Body by Didier Deleule and François Guéry

Posted on February 3, 2014 by stuartelden

An important 1972 book, mentioned by Foucault in Discipline and Punish, is finally coming out in English translation in March 2014, with an excellent introduction by the translators. The Productive Body asks how the human body and its labor have been … Continue reading →

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Brett Christophers – The Territorial Fix

Posted on February 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Brett Christophers has an interesting piece in Progress in Human Geography, entitled “The territorial fix: Price, power and profit in the geographies of markets” (requires subscription). It takes the notion of the ‘spatial fix’ developed by David Harvey and others … Continue reading →

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