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Which edition of Foucault’s Birth of the Clinic did Alan Sheridan actually translate?

Update 4 February 2021: the initial work of a more comprehensive analysis is here. Foucault’s Naissance de la clinique was published in two editions in his lifetime. The first appeared in 1963 as the first volume in Georges Canguilhem’s ‘Galien’ series with … Continue reading →

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1969 : Michel Foucault et la question de l’auteur. Qu’est-ce qu’un auteur ? (2019)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Dinah Ribard, 1969 : Michel Foucault et la question de l’auteur. Qu’est-ce qu’un auteur ? Texte, présentation, et commentaire Éditions Honoré Champion, Textes critiques français no 2. 2019. 1 vol., 112 p., broché, 13 ×…

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The changes between Foucault’s Maladie mentale et personnalité (1954) and Maladie mentale et psychologie (1962)

  As mentioned in the last update on my research for The Early Foucault, I have done a comparison of the 1954 text Maladie mentale et personnalité and the 1962 Maladie mentale et psychologie. The full analysis can be found here. Foucault … Continue reading →

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Anthony King, Command: The Twenty-First Century General – CUP, 2019

Just published by my Warwick colleague Anthony King, Command: The Twenty-First Century General – Cambridge University Press, 2019 In the wake of the troubled campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, military decision-making appears to be in crisis and generals have been … Continue reading →

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Marcus Power, Geopolitics and Development – Routledge, 2019

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Marcus Power, Geopolitics and Development – Routledge, 2019 Unlike many Routledge titles, pleased to see this will be in paperback immediately. Geopolitics and Development examines the historical emergence of development as a form of governmentality,…

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Elaine Stratford, Home, Nature, and the Feminine Ideal: Geographies of the Interior and of Empire – Rowman, January 2019

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Elaine Stratford, Home, Nature, and the Feminine Ideal: Geographies of the Interior and of Empire – Rowman International, January 2019. Take three things: the home, nature, and the feminine ideal—a notional and perfected femininity. Constitute them as…

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Stuart Hall, Essential Essays (Two-volume set): Foundations of Cultural Studies & Identity and Diaspora, edited by David Morley, Duke UP 2019

Stuart Hall, Essential Essays (Two-volume set): Foundations of Cultural Studies & Identity and Diaspora, edited by David Morley, Duke University Press, 2019 Volumes 1 and 2 of Stuart Hall’s Essential Essays are available as a set From his arrival in … Continue reading →

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New Perspectives Vol 26 No 3 out – focus on ‘Post-Truth’ and Politics

New Perspectives Vol 3, 2018 – open access here Post-Truth-Telling in IR We break new ground in this issue of New Perspectives with an extensive co-edited special section on ‘Post-Truth’ and its relevance for politics and international relations. As Editor-in-Chief, … Continue reading →

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Bruno Latour interviewed in Artnet

Bruno Latour interviewed in Artnet (via Graham Harman)

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David Beer, The Data Gaze, reviewed at LSE Review of Books

David Beer, The Data Gaze (Sage 2018, Society and Space series) is reviewed at LSE Review of Books by Ignas Kalpokas. It can by now be taken as a given that ‘data’ or, more precisely, ‘big data’ (often even capitalised to reflect its … Continue reading →

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