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Catherine M. Soussloff, Foucault on Painting – forthcoming in November 2017 with University of Minnesota Press

Posted on October 3, 2017 by stuartelden

Catherine M. Soussloff, Foucault on Painting – forthcoming in November 2017 with University of Minnesota Press. A timely exploration of Foucault’s art historical and philosophical engagement with painting as knowledge Catherine M. Soussloff argues that Michel Foucault’s sustained engagement with … Continue reading →

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Shannon Mattern, Mapping’s Intelligent Agents

Posted on October 2, 2017 by stuartelden

A very interesting piece in Places journal – Shannon Mattern, “Mapping’s Intelligent Agents“. Thanks to Jenny Edkins for the link. Self-driving cars have sparked a “billion dollar war over maps,” but the cars are the most boring thing about it. … Continue reading →

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Bernard Harcourt’s legal work – ‘The Long Defense of the Alabama Death-Row Prisoner Doyle Lee Hamm’

Posted on October 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Most readers of this blog will, I guess, know Bernard Harcourt for his work editing Michel Foucault’s early Collège de France lectures or the 1981 course in Louvain, and his own writings. He also edits the Carceral Notebooks which I … Continue reading →

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Hannah and Martin – play on the Arendt/Heidegger relation, 27-29 Nov, London

Posted on October 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Hannah and Martin – play on the Arendt/Heidegger relation, 27-29 Nov, London by Joan Nederlof, Lineke Rijxman and Willem de Wolf 27 – 29 November, 7.30pm £20 / £15 Based on the true story of the secret love affair between … Continue reading →

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Carceral Notebooks 13 – Foucault and the Politics of Resistance in Brazil

Posted on October 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Carceral Notebooks 13 – Foucault and the Politics of Resistance in Brazil – forthcoming in 2018 Edited by Marcelo Hoffman, this looks fascinating. Foucault made several visits to Brazil and gave some important lectures there. This issue looks to provide some important historical and … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault Update 12: A writing/cycling retreat and some time in London’s libraries

Posted on September 29, 2017 by stuartelden

As I said at the end of the last update on this book project, after the week in the Paris archives I took a week away on a kind of writing/cycling retreat. It started as the idea of a holiday, … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lacan, Aron, Carceral Notebooks, Iyer, Colombel

Posted on September 28, 2017 by stuartelden

A few recently received books received – Sibylle Lacan’s book about her father, Jean-Paul Aron, Les modernes, Carceral Notebooks #12, Arun Iyer, Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures, and Jeannette Colombel’s book on Foucault. The Iyer was sent in recompense for review … Continue reading →

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Dan Webb, Critical Urban Theory, Common Property, and “the Political”

Posted on September 27, 2017 by stuartelden

Dan Webb, Critical Urban Theory, Common Property, and “the Political”: Desire and Drive in the City Dan Webb explores an undervalued topic in the formal discipline of Political Theory (and political science, more broadly): the urban as a level of … Continue reading →

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Preparing for academic interviews – a few resources

Posted on September 26, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Dr Charlotte Mathieson:
This post is a follow-up of resources for those who attended The Voice of the Academic: Vocal Training for Academic Success at the University of Surrey on 22nd September, although the links may also…

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Sloterdijk reviewed (critically) in NYRB: Some thoughts

Posted on September 26, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Alas, behind a paywall, but John Gray goes through a tremendous number of his works—if he’s read all listed, he might be one of the few to get through all of…

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