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I’ve made some additions and amendments to the Foucault Resources page on this blog. Among other things, the two contributions from Graham Burchell are linked; I’ve updated the table of Foucault’s various plans for The History of Sexuality, with a list of … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Power and Space in the City – a series of conversations at UCL. I’ll be part of the first conversation on Powerful Urban Territories on November 18th 2014, along with Wendy Pullan, Allan Cochrane and Janet…

A table showing who is part of the new materialism, and an argument as to why it is not a “turn” A new project on Lefebvre’s rural writings with Adam David Morton ‘Confession, Flesh, Power and Truth’ – my review … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Installing (Social) Order:
In a fascinating, apparently not-peer-reviewed non-article available free online here, Tommaso Venturini and Bruno Latour discuss the potential of “digital methods” for the contemporary social sciences. The paper summarizes, and quite nicely, the split of…

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Lengthy review essay by Stuart Elden of two recent Foucault publications On the government of the living, and Wrong-doing, truth-telling: the function of avowal in justice, in Berfrois. Some quotes: It is perhaps too little…

Originally posted on Lesley Chamberlain:
More than thirty years ago the artist-philosopher Jacques Derrida was working in the Old Bodleian Library in Oxford when he strayed into the shop. On offer were postcards  richly and decoratively redolent of the Western…

Dee Dutta and Trevor McCrisken on the implications of the US mid-terms for Obama and foreign affairs Michael Saward on ‘Political Courage‘ and the previously linked post by me and Adam David Morton, ‘Why read a long dead French Marxist … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Society for Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, and Everyday Life:
Just a reminder that the November 15 submission deadline for our 2015 symposium, “Inhabiting Containment,” is rapidly approaching. See below for CFP and symposium details: Inhabiting Containment Seeking to…

Originally posted on Christopher Watkin:
I’m currently writing the introduction to The Human Remains, discussing the figure of the human in the new materialism. I thought I would share the table I drew up of all the thinkers identified as…