Adding requirements for open access books and chapters to REF will massively increase costs – and there is no additional funding to cover these. Dawn Hibbert asks for a rethink
Some interesting thoughts about this challenge. You can agree with the overall idea, that research should be made more easily available to anyone interested, and still think the current plans are seriously flawed.
Space and place are at the heart of how geographers and sociologists think. This updated edition of the essential undergraduate text will introduce you to the most influential thinkers in the tradition of social theory, with a new focus on the past fifty years. This book is designed to engage with theoretical debates in human geography through the individuals who have made the most significant contributions to this field. This will show you how ideas are shaped by contexts, and how those ideas in turn effect change. This book shows how theoretical understandings evolve, shift and change. It also highlights the connections between different thinkers, whose ideas are developed in collaboration with or in reaction to others. Spatial thought is never developed in a vacuum, but is always constructed by individuals and groups of people located in particular institutional and social structures, with their own sets of personal and political beliefs. The biographical approach of this book reveals how individual thinkers draw on a rich legacy of ideas from past and contemporary generations.
With increased coverage of international and female thinkers, as well as those who work against Eurocentric notions of space and place, this book reveals the exciting reorientation of Geography towards new ideas and methods in the last decade. Each entry contextualises its subject within on-going (inter)disciplinary debates and important political moments, as well as highlighting connections between different thinkers. Together the chapters uncover the rich and diverse evolution of social theory, equipping you with the foundational ideas of geographical thought. Each entry offers the following components:
i) a short biography ii) an explanation of ideas iii) an exploration of how their ideas have been used and critiqued iv) a selective bibliography of key publications (and key publications which review or critique)
Where do you get your values and sensibilities from? If you grew up in a Western democracy, the answer is probably liberalism. Conservatives are right about one thing: liberalism is the ideology of our times, as omnipresent as religion once was. Yet, as Alexandre Lefebvre argues in Liberalism as a Way of Life, many of us are liberal without fully realizing it—or grasping what it means. Misled into thinking that liberalism is confined to politics, we fail to recognize that it’s the water we swim in, saturating every area of public and private life, shaping our psychological and spiritual outlooks, and influencing our moral and aesthetic values—our sense of what is right, wrong, good, bad, funny, worthwhile, and more. This eye-opening book shows how so many of us are liberal to the core, why liberalism provides the basis for a good life, and how we can make our lives better and happier by becoming more aware of, and more committed to, the beliefs we already hold.
A lively, engaging, and uplifting guide to living well, the liberal way, Liberalism as a Way of Life is filled with examples from television, movies, stand-up comedy, and social media—from Parks and Recreationand The Good Place to the Borat movies and Hannah Gadsby. Along the way, you’ll also learn about seventeen benefits of being a liberal—including generosity, humor, cheer, gratitude, tolerance, and peace of mind—and practical exercises to increase these rewards.
You’re probably already waist-deep in the waters of liberalism. Liberalism as a Way of Life invites you to dive in.
Il y a quarante ans, le 25 juin 1984, Michel Foucault disparaissait, emporté par le sida. Il avait 57 ans. Cette mort interrompait une existence prolifique et turbulente. Bâtir une œuvre philosophique et faire de sa vie une œuvre : ces deux desseins avaient fini par se confondre.
Aujourd’hui, il existe un nouveau Foucault. Des textes inédits ont été publiés. Cours au Collège de France, émissions de radio retranscrites, conférences dans des universités à travers le monde…
Ses concepts circulent partout, ils sont brandis, branchés, mais il n’est pas certain que Foucault soit lu et compris autant qu’il est cité. Que faire aujourd’hui de cette pensée ? Quelle est sa cohérence, sa pertinence, sa portée ? Ce hors-série est animé par ces questions.
OCAD University is pleased to host the academic symposium Foucault: Art, Histories, and Visuality in the 21st Century, organized by Dr. Anton Lee, NSCAD University and Dr. Catherine M. Soussloff, UBC & University of California Santa Cruz, in collaboration with Dr. Charles Reeve, OCAD University.
The French philosopher Michel Foucault’s (1926–84) work has greatly influenced artists and art scholars in many ways, from reimagining subjectivity to scrutinizing art institutions. Owing to the posthumous publications and archival discoveries, Foucault’s oeuvre continues to shape current discussions on methodological, political, and ethical assumptions regarding visualities and art histories. The symposium proposes to reassess Foucault’s legacies in the fields of art research and creation from critical perspectives informed by urgent issues, such as decolonization, race, gender, post-truth, artificial intelligence, and diaspora. We will ask: How has Foucault’s thinking—ultimately concerned with human existence in a time of crisis—emerged from and contributed to the visual arts and material culture?
The symposium is part of the World Congress “Foucault: 40 Years After,” a global series of events commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the philosopher’s death (https://foucault40.info). It promises to further collaboration across disciplines and institutions by bringing a diverse group of speakers from across Canada and the United States, who draw broadly from art history, museology, aesthetics, critical theory, media studies, visual culture, art education, and research-creation.
We thank the peoples of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabe, and the Huron-Wendat, on whose unceded lands the event will be held. The event is made possible by the generous support of sponsors: OCAD University, NSCAD University, Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia University, the French Embassy in Canada, the Department of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga, the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
* Note: We will post the final program and information on livestreaming here in the coming days. Please revisit this page to check out the updates.
En partenariat avec l’Association Atelier André Breton, et grâce à la générosité exceptionnelle de Aube Elléouët-Breton, la fille du poète, la BnF diffuse sur Gallica depuis le 20 février 2024 l’ensemble des manuscrits d’André Breton présents dans ses collections, de façon libre et gratuite. Cette diffusion est une manière de célébrer le centenaire de la publication du Manifeste du surréalisme, en 1924.
L’œuvre d’André Breton (1896-1966) est toujours protégée au titre du droit d’auteur car elle ne tombera dans le domaine public qu’en 2037. La diffusion en ligne libre et gratuite d’un tel contenu est donc rarissime. Cette mise à disposition anticipée et gratuite sur Gallica est rendue possible par l’accord généreux et exceptionnel d’Aube Elléouët-Breton, la fille du poète.
The International Dunhuang Programme (IDP) has launched a new website, where you can view over 150,000 Central and Eastern Asian collection items and explore the history and cultures of the Silk Roads through new and expanded learning resources. The launch also coincides with the 30th anniversary of the IDP.
Founded in 1994, the International Dunhuang Programme (IDP) is a pioneering international collaboration that brings together online collections from the Eastern Silk Roads and promotes the understanding of the history and culture of the region.
A collage of images from the IDP website – manuscripts, sculptures, and photographs
As I’ve mentioned before in updates on my Indo-European thought project (here and here), the finds of the Dunhuang caves were crucial for the early career of Emile Benveniste, who worked on Sogdian manuscripts brought back to Paris by Paul Pelliot, and those taken to London by Aurel Stein (on whom, see here). The plunder of the caves by European explorers meant that they ended up in collections across the world. The IDP is a virtual response, grouping material from these different places, and showcases genuine international and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Maurizio Ferraris, Hysteresis: The External World – ed. and trans. Sarah de Sanctis, Edinburgh University Press, February 2024
The preface by Graham Harman and Chapter One are open access under Resources tab at above website.
One of Europe’s leading realist philosophers restores the role of the external world to modern philosophy
Written by one of the launching members of the New Realism movement
Made up of two parts: part one written at the end of the 20th century, part two written in 2021, providing an outstanding summary of Ferraris’s increasingly influential philosophy
Critically engages with the idealist legacy of Kant and Derrida
With a new Introduction showing how the original themes were developed in Ferraris’ later work and how he connects to other trends in philosophy and culture
Since the 1780s, Western philosophy has been largely under the spell of Immanuel Kant’s transcendental philosophy. In this book, Maurizio Ferraris offers a number of important criticisms of Kant in a book of two parts, written 21 years apart. The first part of the book, ‘Observation’, originally published in 2001, lays the foundations of Ferraris’ New Realism, foreshadowing the realist turn that has become characteristic of 21st century philosophy. The second part, ‘Speculation’, written in 2021, outlines a complete metaphysical theory of realism.
The physical set doesn’t come cheap – $1,950.00 or £1,500.00! It looks like the e-book version may be a similar price from online stores.
The long-awaited Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (RSE) is founded on the canonical Standard Edition (SE) translation from the German by James Strachey, while adding a new layer of revisions and translations. Conceptual and lexicographic ambiguities are clarified in extensive new annotations. Drawing on established conventions and intellectual traditions, the Revised Standard Edition supplements Freud’s writing with substantial editorial commentaries addressing controversial technical terms and translation issues through the lens of modern scholarship—a living text in dialogue with itself and the reader. The RSE also includes 56 essays and letters which were not included in the SE.
In the RSE text and footnotes a subtle underlining distinguishes, in an easy and accessible way, Mark Solms’s revisions and additions, from the historical translation and commentaries of James Strachey’s Standard Edition. Readers can examine what Strachey contributed before the revisions in tandem with Solms’s updates, new translations, annotations, and commentaries, collectively bringing Freud’s text and Strachey’s translation into dialogue with five decades of research, including the most recent developments in the field.
Commissioned by the British Psychoanalytical Society and co-published by Rowman & Littlefield, the Revised Standard Edition brings together decades of scholarly deliberation concerning the translation of Freudian technical terms while retaining the best of Strachey’s original English translation. This landmark work will captivate a wide audience, from interested lay readers to practicing clinicians to scientists and scholars in fields related to psychoanalysis.
