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I’d like to think this was satire, but it appears not… The Philosopher’s Jumper. Though I guess if you’re prepared to pay £150 then the joke’s on you anyway… Thanks to James Kneale for the alert. They try to suggest various … Continue reading →

Interview with Judith Butler on gender and the trans-experience at the Verso Books site.

Long, somewhat rambling, but frequently interesting interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in The Hindu [corrected – not The Hindu Times].

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
This was posted a week or so ago, but is still a good overall view of what he has been working on. He’s recently published Why the World Does not Exist and Fields…

CFP – A research workshop on discourse analysis, New Materialisms and the ‘practice turn’ in the social sciences, 12 June 2015, University of Warwick Hot off the press – Foucault’s Théories et institutions pénales is published Articles and Chapters David … Continue reading →

David Nicholls, “Google v old-fashioned legwork – how to research a novel” – reflections on literature and sense of place.

I previously shared the Spanish language call for this conference, but here’s the English details – interpretation will be provided. Neil Smith, who prematurely died in 2012, has had an immense influence on the discipline of geography and on the social sciences … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Serge Audier, Penser le « néolibéralisme ». Le moment néolibéral, Foucault, et la crise du socialisme, Lormont, Le Bord de l’eau, coll. « Documents », 2015, 570 p., ISBN : 9782356874030. Further Info Qu’est-ce vraiment…

Provisionalia: Index Librorum Scholasticorum – collated by Robert Pasnau. Provisionalia is a guide and repository for texts and translations of scholastic philosophy and theology. The site aspires to list every scholastic author whose works have been the subject of scholarly … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Academic Irregularities:
Liz Morrish discusses some new ways the Conservative government will seek to assess and rank universities. ‘Learning gain’ is about to be ‘a thing’. It is just over two weeks after the General Election, and…