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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week and a link to Derek Gregory’s piece on Paris

Michel Foucault on refugees – a previously untranslated interview from 1979 Remembering Edward Soja (1940-2015) Foucault’s Last Decade cover Foucault books Verso – Space and Power: Celebrating the life of Edward Soja (1940-2015) Audio recordings of recent talks on Foucault – on Foucault, Porshnev … Continue reading

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Foucault books – reorganisation of webpages

As Foucault’s Last Decade gets closer to publication, and the writing of Foucault: The Birth of Power continues, I’ve reorganised the web pages on this site relating to the two books. A main page, with the description of the two books, is … Continue reading

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Review of Peter Sloterdijk’s Der Ästhetische Imperativ – Schriften zur Kunst

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
At Theory Culture and Society (open access). Here is part of what is in that volume: In order to talk about the future of art after the ‘end of art’, i.e. towards…

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Michel Foucault, la politique comme guerre continuée. De la guerre des races au racisme d’État, Sur le Cours au Collège de France, “Il faut défendre la société” (2015)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Richard Groulx, Michel Foucault, la politique comme guerre continuée. De la guerre des races au racisme d’État, Sur le Cours au Collège de France, “Il faut défendre la société”, Paris: Editions l’Harmattan, 2015. La guerre…

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Several Essays on Deleuze at LARB

Originally posted on My Desiring-Machines:
Several essays  commemorating the twentieth anniversary of Deleuze’s death are currently up on the front page of LARB, but here are individual links: Gilles Deleuze: The Event of Life by Brad Evans What Is Becoming…

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The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze conference — final schedule

Originally posted on My Desiring-Machines:
The final schedule for the conference at Purdue this weekend has been posted. Not only am I going, but I’ve found myself moderating a panel on which Marcelo Hoffman and Marco Altamirano will be presenting.…

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Research Associate post at Durham’s IBRU: Centre for Borders Research

Durham University seeks to employ a full-time Research Associate to contribute to the work of IBRU, an interdisciplinary training and academic research entity based in Durham University’s Department of Geography. This is a fixed-term appointment which will terminate no later … Continue reading

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The Biopolitics of Gender (2015)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Jemima Repo (2015) The Biopolitics of Gender. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press Introduces a new theoretical and methodological approach to gender Conducts a genealogy of gender similar to Foucault’s mid-twentieth century genealogy of…

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Remembering Edward Soja (1940-2015) (see also Derek Gregory’s tribute) Michel Foucault on refugees – a previously untranslated interview from 1979 8 Critical Theory books that came out in October – Golder, Adorno and Lenk, Nealon, King, Withers, Coombs, Barthes, Holub Pierre Macherey, ‘The Productive … Continue reading

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The Martian, Matt Damon, and Outer Space Law

A bit belatedly, after getting a number of ‘Does Matt Damon know what he’s talking about?’ emails, I finally got to see The Martian last night. Since it’s not fair that Klaus Dodds and Rachael Squire get to have all…

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