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Originally posted on My Desiring-Machines:
Generation online has posted Arianna Bove’s translation of Negri’s presentation from the Marx-Foucault Colloquium at Nanterre, December 18-19, 2014.

Foucault and Neoliberalism – a few thoughts in response to the Zamora piece in Jacobin Time Magazine profile of Foucault from 1981 Étienne Balibar discusses Foucault’s La société punitive, with a response from Judith Butler Foucault and Iran (and Ernst … Continue reading →

Verso have an ebook sale – 90% off until January 1st 2015. I picked up nine for less than £15 – books by Eric Hazan, Danny Dorling, Slavoj Zizek, Shlomo Sand, Walter Benjamin, Stanley Aronowitz, Keller Easterling, Arundhati Roy and Marcus … Continue reading →

Adam Kuper has an interesting piece on his book Anthropologists and Anthropology, forty years on and in an updated new edition (with a reversed title). It’s a survey of British Anthropology as a discipline – almost an anthropology of anthropology. Kuper … Continue reading →

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
I expect many readers will know Patrick Crogan‘s Gameplay mode: war, simulation and technoculture (Minnesota, 2011).  He has now uploaded what I think is a draft of Drones and global technicity: automation and (dis)individuation at academia.  Here’s…

My Warwick colleague Marijn Nieuwenhuis has a new piece entitled ‘The Terror in the Air‘ at Open Democracy. The ranges from Beijing pollution to tear gas, and Eric Garner to Peter Sloterdijk.

Originally posted on Foucault News:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcUQ6JpKXgE&feature=youtu.be Michel Foucault: The Late Lectures Columbia Maison Française November 7, 2014, a panel discussion with Seyla Benhabib, François Ewald, Bernard E. Harcourt, George Kateb, and Emmanuelle Saada. In his late Collège de France lectures,…

The Foucault and neoliberalism debate dominated this week – with my response the most popular post on this site in some time. Foucault and Neoliberalism – a few thoughts in response to the Zamora piece in Jacobin Stuart Elden on … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Postmodern Velázquez, New York Times, Dec 11 2014 In Michel Foucault’s  essay on Velázquez’s  baroque masterpiece “Las Meninas,”  he comments on Velázquez’s decision to insert his self-portrait into the painting’s narrative, planting a seed that…

Two new reviews at the Society and Space open site.