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Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michael Maidan, Review of: A Companion to Foucault by Christopher Falzon,Timothy O’Leary, and Jana Sawicki (Editors) Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. This companion to the work of French thinker Michael Foucault offers an overview of his work, and…

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michel Foucault (2013) La société punitive. Cours au collège de France 1972-1973, Paris: Gallimard Seuil. Ce livre paraîtra le 10 octobre 2013. Frédéric Gros Foucault et « la société punitive » Compte rendu sur le…

Close Up at a Distance reviewed.

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
As of this month, Antipode is in the capable hands of a new Editorial Collective: Nik Theodore (University of Illinois at Chicago); Sharad Chari (University of the Witwatersrand); Vinay Gidwani (University of Minnesota); Katherine McKittrick…

Originally posted on GAPING EARTH:
Elizabeth Johnson, Harlan Morehouse and myself are putting together some sessions at the 2014 AAG around the relationship between Geophilosophy and Geography, and particularly what we are calling the Geo-Social. Please circulate the below CFP…

A powerful piece on the hunger strikes in Californian prisons – the first post in a planned open site forum on prisons today.

Originally posted on Persistent Enlightenment:
My last post on the so-called “Foucault/Habermas Debate” focused on the eulogy JürgenHabermas wrote in the wake of Michel Foucault’s death. The main theoretical claim of the eulogy was that Foucault, the one-time critic of…

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
•I had been reading William T. Vollmann’s enormous book Imperial. I bought the book in paperback and then put an illicit copy on my Kindle (this riff is not about the ethics of that move). It’s just…

Sara Fregonese and Ralf Brand’s book, The Radicals’ City, is now out.

New review at the Society & Space open site.