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Katarzyna Lecky, Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in the English Renaissance – OUP, Early Modern Literary Geographies, 2019

Katarzyna Lecky, Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in the English Renaissance – OUP, 2019 This is the latest in the Early Modern Literary Geographies series. Katarzyna Lecky explores how early modern British poets paid by the state adapted inclusive modes … Continue reading

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Sophie Chiari, Shakespeare’s Representation of Climate, Weather and Environment – EUP 2019

Sophie Chiari, Shakespeare’s Representation of Climate, Weather and Environment: The Early Modern ‘Fated Sky’ – Edinburgh University Press, 2019 Just an expensive hardback/e-book at the moment, but this looks very interesting. Her essay “Climatic Issues in Early Modern England: Shakespeare’s … Continue reading

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Viet Thanh Nguyen – How not to bore your audience at a reading

Viet Thanh Nguyen – How not to bore your audience at a reading Although this advice is for literary readings, there is a lot here that should be useful for academic presentations too.

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FWJ Schelling, The Ages of the World (1811) – SUNY Press 2019

FWJ Schelling, The Ages of the World (1811) – SUNY Press 2019, translated by Joseph P. Lawrence The first English translation of the first of three versions of this unfinished work by Schelling. In 1810, after establishing a reputation as … Continue reading

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David Beer, Portraits of a Pulsating Life: Georg Simmel’s Encounter with Rembrandt – at Berfrois

David Beer, Portraits of a Pulsating Life: Georg Simmel’s Encounter with Rembrandt – at Berfrois Georg Simmel’s Concluding Thoughts: Worlds, Lives, Fragments is now out with Palgrave. In May 1913, German sociologist Georg Simmel wrote to the poet and essayist Margarete … Continue reading

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Books received – Latour, Valverde, Kantorowicz, and the two versions of Foucault’s L’ordre du discours

Bruno Latour’s Où atterrir?, Mariana Valverde’s study of Michel Foucault, now in paperback, and Ernst Kantorowicz, Oeuvres – which I mainly got for the biography by Alain Boureau. Also in the pile is a second-hand copy of Foucault’s L’ordre du discours – and … Continue reading

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Martín Arboleda — Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction Under Late Capitalism (Verso, forthcoming January 2020)

Originally posted on multipliciudades:
So, I am breaking the silence on this blog again to share the good news that Martín Arboleda’s Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction Under Late Capitalism will finally be out with Verso early next year —…

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Book launch for Canguilhem, gloknos/CRASSH, University of Cambridge, 20 May 2019

On 20 May at 3pm there will be a book launch for my recently-published book Canguilhem, hosted by gloknos/CRASSH at the University of Cambridge. I’ll be in conversation with Inanna Hamati-Ataya and Simon Reid-Henry. It will be held in S1, Alison Richard Building, University … Continue reading

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Centre Michel Foucault – nouveau site web (2019)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Centre Michel Foucault Présentation Le Centre Michel Foucault est une association fondée le 31 mai 1986 à l’initiative de chercheurs internationaux qui ont accompagné le développement du travail et de la pensée de Michel Foucault.…

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Translating Philosophy and Theory – Style, Rhetoric and Concepts, Warwick, 11 May 2019

Translating Philosophy and Theory – Style, Rhetoric and Concepts, Warwick, 11 May 2019 One-day interdisciplinary conference at HRC Warwick Saturday, 11th May 2019 Keynote speakers Dr Lisa Foran, Lecturer in Philosophical Studies, Newcastle University, UK Professor Andrew Benjamin, Kingston University … Continue reading

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