Category Archives: Publishing

Foucault’s preparatory notes to Les mots et les choses (The Order of Things)

This isn’t recent news, but I hadn’t seen this before. Foucault’s preparatory notes to Les mots et les choses (The Order of Things) are available online at La bibliothèque de Foucault : Guide des papiers de travail de Michel Foucault. The … Continue reading →

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Foucault on Parrhesia – translation of a 1982 lecture forthcoming in Critical Inquiry

A lecture by Foucault in 1982 at Université de Grenoble, on “Parrēsia” was first published in French in 2012 in the journal Anabases. Another lecture from this same trip, “Rêver de ses plaisirs”, was published in 1983, and is a variant of … Continue reading →

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Geographica Helvetica – open access from 1 January 2015

This is good news – Geographica Helvetica will be open access for both new work and all the archives from 1st January 2015. I’ve been on the board of this journal for the past few years and it’s published some … Continue reading →

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Heidegger Gesamtausgabe app with links to available translations

An app linking to available translations of volumes of Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe is available here – requires free registration. A webpage listing (not needing registration) is here.

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History of Sexuality volume II – detailed discussion of the three different introductions

On a page on this site I discuss in detail the three versions of the introduction to the History of Sexuality volume II. The May 1984 version, which introduced the book itself – L’usage des plaisirs, translated as The Use of Pleasure. An earlier … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory – Chinese translation forthcoming

The Birth of Territory is forthcoming in Chinese translation. While this is good news, it’s hardly the path to riches. The royalty rate is 7%, rising to 8% in the unlikely event of it selling more than 10,000 copies. This is … Continue reading →

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How much censorship has there been in Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe?

Die Zeit has a powerful piece discussing the involvement of the Heidegger family in the production of the Gesamtausgabe, the collected edition of his works. Theodore Kisiel has long called the editorial practices an ‘international scandal of scholarship‘, but this suggests … Continue reading →

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Preprints of a couple of forthcoming publications now available

I’ve added the preprints of a couple of forthcoming publications, on Foucault and territory respectively, to the page on this site.

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“The geopolitics of Boko Haram and Nigeria’s ‘war on terror’” – now published in The Geographical Journal

My paper on Boko Haram is now published in The Geographical Journal. The paper requires subscription, but if you can’t get it another way, please feel free to ask me for a copy. Here’s the abstract. The April 2014 kidnapping of … Continue reading →

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A new project on Lefebvre’s rural writings with Adam David Morton

At the Warwick Politics and International Studies blog, Politics Reconsidered, Adam David Morton and I have a short post introducing a new research project. Entitled ‘Why read a long dead French Marxist to think about land struggles today?‘ the post discusses Lefebvre’s … Continue reading →

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