London Group of Historical Geographers seminar series autumn 2017

Posted on September 7, 2017 by stuartelden

London Group of Historical Geographers seminar series autumn 2017 – details here

Venue: Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House unless otherwise stated

Time: Tuesday 17:15

Convenors: Ruth Craggs (King’s College London), Felix Driver (Royal Holloway, London), Innes Keighren (Royal Holloway University of London), Miles Ogborn (Queen Mary University of London)

Autumn Term 2017
Date Seminar details
10 October
17:15		 The lonely fieldworker qualified: observations on the emergence of different forms of collaborative projects in ethnographic research.
George Marcus (University of California, Irvine)

IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR
24 October
17:15		 Assembling ‘Negroana’: Black history and the limits of universal knowledge.
Jake Hodder (University of Nottingham)

Room 246, Second Floor
7 November
17:15		 A million Black Anthropocenes or none.
Kathryn Yusoff (Queen Mary University of London)

IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR
21 November
17:15		 Just giving: British charities, decolonisation and development.
Matthew Hilton (Queen Mary University of London)

Venue to be announced
5 December
17:15		 Ab Uno Sanguine: Indigenous rights and the Aborigines’ Protection Society in the mid-nineteenth century.
Zoe Laidlaw (Royal Holloway University of London)

IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR
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Sur les toits – full film on prison revolts in early 1970s France now available on Youtube

Posted on September 4, 2017 by stuartelden

Nicolas Drolc’s excellent film Sur les toits is now available in full on Youtube. It’s a documentary on the prison revolts in early 1970s France, with some references to the Prisons Information Group Foucault co-founded. The film is in French, with English subtitles. As well as some archive footage of Foucault, there are interviews with, among others, Daniel Defert and Serge Livrozet.

As a reminder, there is an open access symposium on the film, following a discussion held at the University of Warwick, in Antipode. The contributions comprise an interview with the director by Marijn Nieuwenhuis and a series of original reflections (from Dominique Moran, Sophie Fuggle, Anastasia Chamberlen, Oliver Davis and Stuart Elden) on both the film and its subject of investigation.

Nicolas Drolc’s latest film is on Serge Livrozet, La Mort se Mérite, and a trailer can be viewed online:

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Judith Butler interviewed by Aaron Aquilina and Kurt Borg in CounterText

Posted on September 4, 2017 by stuartelden

Judith Butler is interviewed by Aaron Aquilina and Kurt Borg in CounterText (requires subscription). It’s a fascinating interview with a particular focus on her interests in literature, especially Kafka, and then moves to a discussion of her career trajectory and relation to poststructuralism and ethics.

 

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Nicholas de Genova (ed.), The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering

Posted on September 2, 2017 by stuartelden

978-0-8223-6916-5_prNicholas de Genova (ed.), The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering now out with Duke University Press.

In recent years the borders of Europe have been perceived as being besieged by a staggering refugee and migration crisis. The contributors to The Borders of “Europe” see this crisis less as an incursion into Europe by external conflicts than as the result of migrants exercising their freedom of movement. Addressing the new technologies and technical forms European states use to curb, control, and constrain what contributors to the volume call the autonomy of migration, this book shows how the continent’s amorphous borders present a premier site for the enactment and disputation of the very idea of Europe. They also outline how from Istanbul to London, Sweden to Mali, and Tunisia to Latvia, migrants are finding ways to subvert visa policies and asylum procedures while negotiating increasingly militarized and surveilled borders. Situating the migration crisis within a global frame and attending to migrant and refugee supporters as well as those who stoke nativist fears, this timely volume demonstrates how the enforcement of Europe’s borders is an important element of the worldwide regulation of human mobility.

Contributors. Ruben Andersson, Nicholas De Genova, Dace Dzenovska, Evelina Gambino, Glenda Garelli, Charles Heller, Clara Lecadet, Souad Osseiran, Lorenzo Pezzani, Fiorenza Picozza, Stephan Scheel, Maurice Stierl, Laia Soto Bermant, Martina Tazzioli

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Foucault in Warsaw (2017)

Posted on September 2, 2017 by stuartelden

A brief English discussion of a French article about about a Polish book on Foucault’s time in Warsaw. Does anyone have access to the Belgian newspaper in which the article appears?

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Foucault in Warsaw, Durieux.eu blog, 31 August 2017.

 Le Soir spends ample space on an article by Maya Szymanowska about a new Polish publication by sociologist Remigiusz Ryzinski, ‘Foucault W Warszawie’ (Foucault in Warsaw – no translations yet).

In 1955 Michel Foucault arrives in Uppsala, Sweden, where he will work on his doctoral dissertation. But then in October 1958, he moves to Warsaw, Poland, where he is going to direct the Centre de civilisation française at the local university. There he continues working on the manuscript he will  eventually defend in 1961 in Paris as his so-called ‘principal thesis’. It is published originally as ‘Folie et déraison. Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique’.

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Extract from Michel Serres’s The Birth of Physics (open access), with whole book forthcoming

Posted on September 2, 2017 by stuartelden

The same issue of Parrhesia also includes an extract from Michel Serres’s The Birth of Physics. The translation is by David Webb, with an introduction by Bill Ross. The entire book is forthcoming in a new edition from Rowman and Littlefield International.

[Update: David tells me he and Bill did the translation together; and co-wrote the book’s introduction – though this excerpt is Bill’s alone]

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Nicole Loraux, “War in the Family”, translated by Adam Kotsko (open access)

Posted on September 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Nicole Loraux’s essay “War in the Family” has been translated by Adam Kotsko, and is open access in the new issue of Parrhesia. As Adam writes, “This previously untranslated essay is discussed at length in the first half of Agamben’s Stasis”.

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Books received – Evangelou, Gratton, Girard, Webster, Shakespeare?

Posted on September 1, 2017 by stuartelden

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Some books received in recompense for review work for Palgrave and Bloomsbury – King Edward III, Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, Girard’s Violence and the Sacred, Peter Gratton’s Speculative Realism and Angelos Evangelou’s Philosophizing Madness from Nietzsche to Derrida. Although King Edward III has been edited before in Shakespeare series, this is the first version in the Arden Shakespeare. Its authorship is much disputed though it is increasingly being seen as a play by, in whole or in part, Shakespeare. I discuss it alongside King Henry V in one of the chapters of my Shakespeare manuscript, so glad to have this new edition.

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New Perspectives essay by Peter Sloterdijk on ‘On Pseudonymous Politics: Regarding Implicit and Explicit Misconceptions of Democracy’ (open access)

Posted on September 1, 2017 by stuartelden

Screen-Shot-2017-05-15-at-22.35.04-204x300New Perspectives has just published an open access essay by Peter Sloterdijk on ‘On Pseudonymous Politics: Regarding Implicit and Explicit Misconceptions of Democracy’

Editor Benjamin Tallis writes:

‘On Pseudonymous Politics: Regarding Implicit and Explicit Misconceptions of Democracy’ is an intervention into the state of democracy (and its discontents) today and a rejoinder to some of those discontents. Sloterdijk grounds his argument in extensive historical analysis of the ‘pseudonymous’ condition of democracy and identifies four noms de guerre: Oligocracy, Fiscocracy, Mobocracy and Phobocracy. 

This article is a significant intervention into debates in contemporary politics in the context of ‘post-truth’, populism (on the left and right) and the battle for liberal democracy in the Western world and beyond. It treads deliberately onto the turf of Politics and International Relations and is a challenge to scholars in our field.

New Perspectives will therefore also be publishing a collection of responses to Sloterdijk’s article by IR scholars: Claudia Aradau, Friedrich Kratochwil, Barry J Ryan, Sassan Gholiagha and Benjamin Tallis. We also encourage the submission of further responses and articles on related matters in order to continue the conversation. 

This text is a version of the ‘Cardiff Lecture’ delivered by Peter Sloterdijk as the keynote address for the European International Studies Association (EISA) European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), Cardiff University, Wales, on 7 June 2017. The Cardiff Lecture was made possible by the initiative and perseverance of Christian Bueger and the support – financial and otherwise – of Cardiff University and the Learned Society of Wales, as well as the financial support of the Institute of International Relations Prague, the latter of which paid for the translation of the text from the original German. This translation was made in record time, with no detriment to quality, by Victoria Stiles, who is contactable at v.stiles.education@gmail.com. Additional bibliographical assistance was provided in fine fashion by David Steiner, an intern at the Institute of International Relations Prague.

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Kostas Axelos in Iran’s Shargh Daily newspaper, with a translation of my interview with him

Posted on September 1, 2017 by stuartelden

There is a feature on Kostas Axelos in Iran’s Shargh Daily newspaper (pdf here). It was put together by Sahand Sattari, and includes a translation of my interview with him which appeared in 2005 in Radical Philosophy. The English version of the interview is available here. If you’re interested in finding out more about this interesting but neglected figure, there is a bibliography of Kostas Axelos in English on this site.

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