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Intervention Symposium – “Did We Accomplish the Revolution in Geographic Thought?”

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
44 years ago we published David Harvey’s essay “Revolutionary and Counter-Revolutionary Theory in Geography and the Problem of Ghetto Formation”. Taking geographers to task, demanding some serious self-criticism, it was subject to its fair share of discussion…

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Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History – David Harvey video lectures

Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History A Series of Six Video Lectures in Political Economy by David Harvey CAPITAL AS VALUE IN MOTION VALUE AND ANTI-VALUE VALUE AND ITS MONETARY EXPRESSION THE SPACE AND TIME OF VALUE … Continue reading

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Foucault, Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives (2016)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives By Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault Edited by Nancy Luxon Translated by Thomas Scott-Railton University of Minnesota Press | 344 pages | January 2017 ISBN 978-0-8166-9534-8 |…

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Most popular posts and pages in 2016

Doreen Massey (1944-2016) – and the tributes here Foucault and Neoliberalism – a few thoughts in response to the Zamora piece in Jacobin (from 2014) Michel Foucault on refugees – a previously untranslated interview from 1979 (from 2015) Where to start with reading Peter Sloterdijk? (an updated … Continue reading

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A year in review – talks, publications and writing, plus links to my ‘best-of’ lists

I began 2016 with a lengthy manuscript on the 1969-75 period of Foucault’s work, partly developed from the large sections cut from the manuscript of Foucault’s Last Decade. The main task accomplished in the first part of this year was … Continue reading

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Novels and biographies read in 2016

Not all novels, and many more biographies in here then previous years, but these were the (mainly) non-work books I read in 2016. John Fowles, Daniel Martin  Mason Currey, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (non-fiction) Helga Schneider, Let Me Go: … Continue reading

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An early Christmas present – an advance copy of Foucault: The Birth of Power

Just before I head off on holiday, an advance copy of Foucault: The Birth of Power. The book will be available in the UK in January and a little later worldwide. There is a short post about it on the Polity … Continue reading

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Academic Books of 2016 – my personal list

Many of the academic books I read this year were for the Foucault and Shakespeare work, and few were published this year. This alphabetical list is of the twenty books published this year which I read and liked the most. … Continue reading

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My favourite music of 2016

A very good year for music, I thought. These are the albums I liked the most… 1. Airbag, Disconnected 2. Nik Bärtsch’s Mobile Extended, Continuum 3. Big Big Train, Folklore 4. David Bowie, Blackstar 5. Kate Bush/The K Fellowship, Before … Continue reading

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Danger, Crime and Rights: A 1983 Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon (open access)

Although it was available online earlier this year, “Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon” is formally published in Theory, Culture & Society , Vol 34 No 1, pp. 3-27. It is currently available open … Continue reading

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