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Society and Space Editorial team changes

Editorial developments at Society and Space – two new review editors and an entirely new, fascinating and diverse editorial board. The post also announces that Deb Cowen is stepping down as one of the editors – I worked with Deb … Continue reading

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Michel Foucault, Discours et vérité précédé de La parrêsia (Feb 2016)

Michel Foucault, Discours et vérité précédé de La parrêsia will appear with Vrin in February 2016. This is a critical French edition of the English language lectures on parresia delivered at Berkeley in the autumn of 1983, previously published as Fearless … Continue reading

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Discussion of Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis

Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies:
Good afternoon, We would like to invite you to a continuation of a series of events that the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona has launched in Virtual Reality for the academic year of…

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Foucault: The Birth of Power Update 10 – Chapter Five and a complete first draft

With Chapters Four and Six drafted, Chapter Five was the only one I didn’t have in a decent form. The first task for this was the section on the Groupe d’Information sur les prisons (GIP). Foucault was actively involved in this … Continue reading

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Critical Theory’s books that came out in December

Most of these are too recent to make my best-of year list, but here’s ten books that came out in December from Critical-Theory.com – Foucault, Bataille, Couture, etc.

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Top ten Society and Space posts of 2015

Most popular posts on the Society and Space open site in 2015.

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2015 in review

WordPress.com has prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 400,000 times in 2015. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, … Continue reading

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Judith Butler lectures on the Performative Theory of Assembly

The Sociological Imagination has gathered up online lectures relating to Judith Butler’s new book Notes Towards a Performative Theory of Assembly.  Here’s the first of them – the ‘Human Shield’ London Review of International Law lecture given at the LSE in February 2015:

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Radical Philosophy 195 published

Radical Philosophy 195 is now published. Commentary: Politicizing poerlessness – Mathieu Bonzom Commentary: An apology for French republicanism – Olivier Tonneau Article: The irony of anatomy Basquiat’s poetics of black positionality – Nathan Brown Article: Radical openness Chord symbols, musical abstraction … Continue reading

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Foucault, About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980

Foucault, About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980, is now published with University of Chicago Press.  When the book came out in French I provided a note of the original English-language sources. What … Continue reading

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