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Originally posted on Foucault News:
Shelley Tremain, Editor, Foucault and the Government of Disability, University of Michigan, 2015 Enlarged and Revised Edition An up-to-date edition of a foundational collection Foucault and the Government of Disability considers the continued relevance of…

Simon Springer and David Harvey debate Marxism, anarchism and Geography Editing Henri Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy – doing his endnotes properly Foucault’s 1983 seminar at Berkeley – tracing the people in the ‘cowboy hat’ photograph Why should academics blog about their research? An answer in pictures … Continue reading →

Why should academics blog about their research? An answer in pictures at The Sociological Imagination. Four reasons in the full post. Thanks to Jacqueline Bartram who drew these great cartoons as I was talking at a Hull event last week … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
L’Essai et la revue du jour par Jacques Munier France Culture, 9 June 2015 Audio Michel Foucault : Théories et institutions pénales. Cours au Collège de France 1971-1972 (EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil) « C’est un document exceptionnel »…

Now up online first, Marcelo Hoffman reviews Foucault’s La société punitive in Political Theory (subscription required).

Via The Sociological Imagination – video recordings of an LSE event in May 2015 – Inequality in The 21st Century: A Day Long Engagement with Thomas Piketty. Speakers include: Professor Sir Tony Atkinson, Professor Wendy Carlin,  Professor Sir John Hills, Professor Naila Kabeer, Professor Thomas Piketty, Professor Stephanie … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
In Didier Eribon’s biography of Foucault, there is a picture of Foucault in a cowboy hat, together with Paul Rabinow and some students at Berkeley. The hat was a gift from the students. This group…

Originally posted on Terri-Stories:
As others have noted, perhaps the most striking thing about the rise of ISIS (aka the Islamic State) is that it is fundamentally motivated by territorial, rather than merely terrorist ambitions. While Islamist groups such as…

Originally posted on Christopher Watkin:
I’ve written a little app to aggregate information from around the web (news, Twitter, Youtube, Google Scholar, Google Trends…) on Michel Serres. It’s nothing flash but it allows me quickly to scan various sources to…

Foucault’s 1983 seminar at Berkeley – tracing the people in the ‘cowboy hat’ photograph Judith Butler, Notes towards a Performative Theory of Assembly – forthcoming from Harvard UP How Do We Write? Two reflections on ‘dysfunctional academic writing’ Where to start with reading … Continue reading →