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Books received – Shakespeare, Foucault, and Chaturvedi and Doyle’s Climate Terror

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 →

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

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

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Foucault’s major works to appear in a Pléiade edition – a few more details

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 →

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The Italian Difference: Between Nihilism & Biopolitics (pdf)

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…

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Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment (2015)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment.Edited by David Kreps, Ashgate, February 2015 Mapping the resonances, dissonances, and linkages between the thought of Gramsci and Foucault to uncover new tools for socio-political and critical analysis for the…

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An ‘Abe Doctrine’ as Japan’s Grand Strategy: New Dynamism or Dead-End?

Originally posted on Politics Reconsidered:
Japan’s Foreign and Security Policy Under the ‘Abe Doctrine’ By Professor Chris Hughes This post originally appeared on Japan Focus. Prime Minister Abe Shinzō’s stunning return to power in the December 2012 landslide election victory, and…

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Transnationalisms: two new reviews

two new reviews at the Society and Space open site

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

‘Neoliberalism’ and ‘Capitalism’ – what’s the difference? Foucault’s Last Decade Update 25 – resubmission of revised manuscript How We Write: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blank Page – edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari, forthcoming from Punctum Machines of Urbanisation – new blog … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, open access in Antipode – ‘The Theory of Ground Rent and Rural Sociology’

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
Hot off the press this week we have something special courtesy of Stuart Elden (University of Warwick) and Adam David Morton (University of Sydney) – a translation (by Warwick’s Matthew Dennis) of Henri Lefebvre’s 1956 essay ‘Théorie…

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Interview with Maurizio Ferraris by Peter Gratton

A new interview at the Society and Space open site.

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