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A diagrammatic snapshot of French philosophy from Magazine Littéraire, September 1977

Originally posted on Christopher Watkin:
Today I was given a copy of this edition of the Magazine Littéraire from September 1977 (thank you Philip). Its centrefold is a diagram seeking to represent flows of influence between contemporary philosophers. The table provides a…

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Writing and then?

Originally posted on Eye on the World:
Writing for the sake of publishing work in journals is one of the hardest things academics do. There is the strain of putting everything together in a way you hope will convince the…

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Free Course! Introduction to Cultural Studies: Culture, Technology & Power

Originally posted on jeremygilbertwriting:
From February to June this year, I’ll be teaching on a free fortnightly course at Open School East in Dalston which will be be covering a number of key issues in contemporary cultural politics – race, gender, sexuality, technology, neoliberalism, music,…

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Derek Gregory’s Tanner lectures ‘Reach from the Sky’ – videos now online

Derek Gregory’s two Tanner lectures, and the discussion with Grégoire Chamayou, Jochen von Bernstorff and Chris Woods are now online (via Derek’s Geographical Imaginations site). The first,‘Good bomb, bad bomb’ is here, and the second, ‘Killing Space’, is here, while the responses … Continue reading

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Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds – launch event with Zygmunt Bauman, 16 March 2016, Goldsmiths

Launch of the book: Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds with Zygmunt Bauman, Maayan Amir and Ruti Sela and Eyal Weizman. The event will be held at the Centre for Research Architecture, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, March, 16 – details here. The launch … Continue reading

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The GIP, the 1972 Nancy prison revolt and the Gauche révolutionnaire – a request for help

I wonder if anyone can help. I am looking for a brochure entitled ‘Révolte à la prison de Charles III de Nancy’, authored by the Groupe d’Information sur les prisons. It appeared as a supplement to Gauche révolutionnaire, no 9, … Continue reading

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Foucault’s Collège de France Lectures @ Columbia

Originally posted on My Desiring-Machines:
An updated website is now live with videos from the first 8 panels, as well as the links to the upcoming livestreams.

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2016 Summer Academy: Intersecting Derrida « London Graduate School

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
This looks to be interesting: 2016 Summer Academy: Intersecting Derrida « London Graduate School

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Books received – Shakespeare, Foucault, Jessop

A pile of recently received books – mainly bought for the Shakespeare project, plus Foucault’s 1980 lectures About the Beginning of the Hermeneutic of the Subject and Bob Jessop’s The State: Past, Present, Future in recompense for review work. The text at the … Continue reading

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Vilna Bashi Treitler on saying ‘no’ to academic requests and the idea of a ‘no’ committee

Vilna Bashi Treitler on saying ‘no’ to academic requests, and the idea of a ‘no committee’. Here’s a key part: Forming a “No Committee” helped me get perspective on my limits. Let me tell you about my No Committee. On … Continue reading

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