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Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Foucault claims that the civilisation that can be designated Christian (the key term here surely), western, or European is unique in its attempt to codify sexuality rather than than use the kind of continuum of evaluations,…

Megaevents and the City virtual theme issue open access again for the duration of the World Cup.

Originally posted on Persistent Enlightenment:
Discussing Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish (or, to be more accurate, that portions of it that turn up in The Foucault Reader) in a seminar I taught this spring, I was struck, once again, by…

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of 28th January, 1981 Foucault distinguishes between the Graeco-Roman concept of aphrodisia, the Christian concept of flesh and the modern concept of sexuality. These are not three domains of distinct objects. They are three modes…

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
The Higher Education Funding Council for England are reviewing the idea of using metrics (or citation counts) in research assessment. We think using metrics to measure research quality is a terrible idea, and we’ll…

The Political Geographies of FIFA and World Cup football Ben Anderson, Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions – first chapter online Graham Harman’s Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political due out in October Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds – new book series edited … Continue reading →

This looks a really helpful resource for anyone interested in Laruelle. Thanks to Michael O’Rourke for the alert.

An interesting new project on mapping the Arctic.

New review at the Society and Space open site

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
by Marijn Nieuwenhuis, University of Warwick Maps are vital for the geographic imaginary of the state. They are, as David Harvey (2001) and others (see, for example, Crampton and Elden 2007; Elden 2013) remind us,…