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David Beer picks up on a discussion about reading that started on this blog.

Adam David Morton and Jon Beasley-Murray discuss Althusser’s book Machiavelli and Us and the notion of post-hegemony.

Originally posted on Foucault News:
UChicago Professor Helps Uncover Lost Lectures by French Philosopher Foucault, 7 February 2013 Source Newsroom: University of Chicago Newswise — More than 30 years ago, French philosopher Michel Foucault gave a landmark series of seven…

Originally posted on Speculative Heresy:
DUST (Dublin Unit for Speculative Thought) presents: Weaponising Speculation Conference 2-3 March, Independent Colleges, 60-63 Dawson Street, Dublin 2. This gathering is the signature event organized by D.U.S.T (Dublin Unit for Speculative Thought), an art/theory…

Andy Merrifield uses Rousseau to think about inequality, old and new.

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
Read Teju Cole’s essay “A Reader’s War,” which tries to square Obama’s reputation as a man “widely read in philosophy, literature, and history” with the White House’s policies of drone warfare. From the essay: How on…

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Alessandro Fontana 1939 -2013 Alessandro Fontana was Emeritus Professor of Italian Studies at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and the author of numerous essays which were partially collected in Il vizio occulto (1989) and…

A new review by Cynthia Weber at the Socety and Space open site.i

Historian of political thought Quentin Skinner is interviewed at 3am magazine (via Continental Philosophy).

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
Social Science Bites has a podcast and interview transcript of an interview with Doreen Massey up. You can listen to the interview here or view the transcript and other info here. Here is the…