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Foucault in Warsaw (2017)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Foucault in Warsaw, Durieux.eu blog, 31 August 2017.  Le Soir spends ample space on an article by Maya Szymanowska about a new Polish publication by sociologist Remigiusz Ryzinski, ‘Foucault W Warszawie’ (Foucault in Warsaw – no translations yet).…

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Extract from Michel Serres’s The Birth of Physics (open access), with whole book forthcoming

The same issue of Parrhesia also includes an extract from Michel Serres’s The Birth of Physics. The translation is by David Webb, with an introduction by Bill Ross. The entire book is forthcoming in a new edition from Rowman and Littlefield International. … Continue reading

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Nicole Loraux, “War in the Family”, translated by Adam Kotsko (open access)

Nicole Loraux’s essay “War in the Family” has been translated by Adam Kotsko, and is open access in the new issue of Parrhesia. As Adam writes, “This previously untranslated essay is discussed at length in the first half of Agamben’s … Continue reading

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Books received – Evangelou, Gratton, Girard, Webster, Shakespeare?

Some books received in recompense for review work for Palgrave and Bloomsbury – King Edward III, Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, Girard’s Violence and the Sacred, Peter Gratton’s Speculative Realism and Angelos Evangelou’s Philosophizing Madness from Nietzsche to Derrida. Although … Continue reading

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New Perspectives essay by Peter Sloterdijk on ‘On Pseudonymous Politics: Regarding Implicit and Explicit Misconceptions of Democracy’ (open access)

New Perspectives has just published an open access essay by Peter Sloterdijk on ‘On Pseudonymous Politics: Regarding Implicit and Explicit Misconceptions of Democracy’ Editor Benjamin Tallis writes: ‘On Pseudonymous Politics: Regarding Implicit and Explicit Misconceptions of Democracy’ is an intervention … Continue reading

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Kostas Axelos in Iran’s Shargh Daily newspaper, with a translation of my interview with him

There is a feature on Kostas Axelos in Iran’s Shargh Daily newspaper (pdf here). It was put together by Sahand Sattari, and includes a translation of my interview with him which appeared in 2005 in Radical Philosophy. The English version … Continue reading

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The Southern Journal of Philosophy – Spindel supplement on Critical Theories of the Present (open access)

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
The proceedings of last year’s Spindel Conference at the University of Memphis on the topic “Critical Histories of the Present” have now been published in The Southern Journal of Philosophy. Edited by Verena Erlenbusch, it…

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David Harvey, Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason – now out

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
David Harvey, Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason forthcoming in August Marx’s Capital is one of the most important texts of the modern era. The three volumes, published between 1867 and 1883, changed…

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Birkbeck Law Review Annual Conference 2017 – ‘Law and the City: Exploring the Urban Revolution in Critical Legal Studies’

Birkbeck Law Review Annual Conference 2017 – ‘Law and the City: Exploring the Urban Revolution in Critical Legal Studies’ Saturday 16 September 2017, Clore Management Building, Birkbeck, University of London The Birkbeck Law Review is pleased to announce its 2017 … Continue reading

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David Berliner, How to get rid of your academic fake-self?

Some interesting and good advice from David Berliner, How to get rid of your academic fake-self? Principle of care: – Substitute a politics of competition by an ethics of care (for yourself and for others). Science is about collaborative knowledge … Continue reading

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