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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 →

Posted on behalf of Phil Hubbard – Streetlife symposium, University of Kent, 15 Sept 201 The street is a social space like no other. It has always been a key laboratory for studies of social life, from the roots of contemporary urban … Continue reading →

Originally posted on The Accidental Philologist:
(This is based on a presentation I gave to a working group on graduate student writing support at the university where I did my doctorate. Another blog post arising from the discussion was written…

Chronicles from an eternal present. A review of “Critiquer Foucault”, edited by Daniel Zamora – part I, part II.

The Anomie of the Earth: Philosophy, Politics, and Autonomy in Europe and the Americas – new collection from Duke University Press. Includes essays by Sandro Mezzadra, Walter  D. Mignolo, Benjamin Noys and others. The contributors to The Anomie of the Earth explore the convergences and resonances between Autonomist … Continue reading →

The piece I published yesterday was on Foucault’s second lecture course at the Collège de France. I have also published reviews of the first and third, which form an initial triptych on the linked themes of measure, inquiry and examination. … Continue reading →

Thinking Spatial Practices with & against law An Interdisciplinary Workshop Funded by: Birkbeck Institute for Social Research Birkbeck School of Law, University of London, 19th June 2015 Birkbeck College, Malet Street│Room 414 Across various disciplines, a resurgent interest in questions of spatial justice is prompted by … Continue reading →