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Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
I was discussing today with Alan Shrift the series that he heads up at Stanford, The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche. If you’re teaching Nietzsche–and I only knew of one of these…

A report from a recent conference on ‘Reconfiguring Global Space’ in Bloomington.

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Arun Iyer, Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures The Case of Heidegger and Foucault. Bloomsbury, 2014 See also Review by H.A. Nethery at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews About By systematically uncovering and comprehensively examining the epistemological…

A review forum at Society and Space.

The Italian Difference: Between Nihilism & Biopolitics (pdf) ‘Neoliberalism’ and ‘Capitalism’ – what’s the difference? Palgrave’s Publishing resources for early career academics Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment (2015) Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition – forthcoming in … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Open Geography:
The writer Michael Jacobs (who died in January 2014) has a piece in today’s Observer about Las Meninas, the famous 1656 painting by Diego Velázquez analyzed by Foucault in The Order of Things. Several very nice details from…

Books received – mainly in recompense for review work for Palgrave. These are the last eight volumes of the RSC Shakespeare series and Sanjay Chaturvedi and Timothy Doyle’s Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change. Also another copy of Foucault’s L’archéologie du savoir which I bought … Continue reading →

Fiona Allon reviews Martijn Konings new book, The Emotional Logic of Capitalism at Progress in Political Economy.

Last year I shared this story: Foucault’s major works – his sole-authored books, plus some articles – will appear in a two-volume collection in 2015 as a prestigious Pléiade edition. Thanks to Colin Gordon for alerting me to the news. Frédéric Gros is interviewed about … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
http://www.re-press.org/book-files/OA_Version_9780980544077_The_Italian_Difference.pdf “This volume brings together essays by different generations of Italian thinkers which address, whether in affirmative, problematizing or genealogical registers, the entanglement of philosophical speculation and political proposition within recent Italian thought. Nihilism and…