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Vinciane Despret, Living as a Bird – translated by Helen Morrison, Polity, October 2021 and discussion at New Books Network In the first days of spring, birds undergo a spectacular metamorphosis. After a long winter of migration and peaceful coexistence, … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Special section: Miguel De Beistegui, The Government Of Desire: A Genealogy Of The Liberal Subject, Philosophy Today: Volume > 65 > Issue: 4, 2021 Vilde Lid Aavitsland, The “Man of Desire” or the “Man of…

Marcelo Hoffman, ‘The FBI file on Foucault‘, Viewpoint Magazine, 2021 Nearly a decade ago, two Brazilian researchers, Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues and Maria Izabel Pitanga, made a remarkable discovery. They requested materials on the French philosopher Michel Foucault from … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Call for papers Michel Foucault and the Historiography of the Sciences The June 2022 edition of Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science will present a special issue dedicated to the work of Michel…

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Hadot and Foucault on Ancient Philosophy: Critical Assessments Symposium 17-19th November 2021 Register here for Zoom attendance

I recently did an interview with Samuel Lee about my work on Foucault. This has been published in Chinese in Ming Pao Daily, with an English version here. There is also an edited audio recording of part of our conversation … Continue reading →

Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Kärrholm (eds.), Territories, Environments, Politics, Explorations in Territoriology – Routledge, April 2022 An interesting looking collection of essays, which also reprints one of my early pieces on territory, with a brief new afterword. A shame about the … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Reece Jones, White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall – Beacon, September 2021 The first book to show that racial exclusion was behind…

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Jean-Marie Guyau, The Ethics of Epicurus and its Relation to Contemporary Doctrines, edited by Keith Ansell Pearson and Federico Testa – Bloomsbury, October 2021 This is the first English translation of a compelling and highly…