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Originally posted on Foucault News:
Foucault and the politics of resistance in Brazil, Carceral Notebooks, vol. 13, 2017 Bernard E. Harcourt, Preface Marcelo Hoffman, Special Editor, Introduction Salma Tannus Muchail and Márcio Alves da Fonseca, Power and Resistance: Foucault’s Laboratory in…

Walter Benjamin and Shakespeare, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB, 28-29 November 2018 One of the key figures in Walter Benjamin’s Origin of the German Mourning Play is Hamlet; for Benjamin as for Schmitt and Agamben, Shakespeare’s tragedy is emblematic of … Continue reading →

The Body Productive programme – Birkbeck, University of London, 8 December 2018 The keynote is by François Guéry – ‘Marx’s Vision of our Future’, and has a closing roundtable on ‘The Productive Body in the 21st Century’. The conference develops themes … Continue reading →

Originally posted on multipliciudades:
Verso is publishing a new, complete edition of David Harvey’s A Companion to Marx’s Capital – out next month. In recent years, we have witnessed a surge of interest in Marx’s work in the effort to understand…

  François Dosse, La saga des intellectuels français, I: À l’épreuve de l’histoire (1944-1968) and La saga des intellectuels français, II: L’avenir en miettes (1968-1989) – Gallimard, 2018 Nul n’était aussi bien armé que François Dosse pour relever le défi … Continue reading →

Originally posted on ICE LAW Project:
The ICE LAW Project investigates the potential for a legal framework that acknowledges the complex geophysical environment in the world’s frozen regions and explores the impact that an ice-sensitive legal system would have on topics…

The Alphonso Lingis Reader, edited by Tom Sparrow – U Minnesota Press, 2018 (via Object-Orientated Philosophy) Alphonso Lingis is arguably the most intriguing American philosopher of the past fifty years—a scholar of transience, someone who has visited and revisited more … Continue reading →

Ann Laura Stoler, Duress: Imperial Durabilities in our Times (Duke UP, 2016) reviewed at LSE Review of Books How do colonial histories remain active forces shaping the conditions and most urgent issues of the present? In Duress: Imperial Durabilities in our Times, Ann … Continue reading →