Letzlove-Portrait(s) Foucault – a play on the Foucault/Voetzel encounter

Thanks to Felix de Montety for the link to this – Letzlove-Portrait(s) Foucault. This is a play based on the Foucault/Voetzel encounter, which led to the book Vingt ans et après.

Été 1975. Un jeune homme fait du stop sur l’autoroute en direction de Caen. Le conducteur qui s’arrête a un look inhabituel : un homme chauve, avec des lunettes cerclées d’acier, un polo ras du cou et une curiosité constante pour son jeune passager. Ils échangent leurs coordonnées avant de se dire au revoir… Trois ans plus tard paraîtra un livre d’entretiens entre cet inconnu de vingt ans, Thierry Voeltzel, et ce célèbre philosophe, Michel Foucault, qui avait alors tenu à garder l’anonymat. Au cours de la conversation qui se noue entre eux, sont abordées les mutations existentielles de la jeunesse dans son rapport avec la sexualité, les drogues, la famille, le travail, la religion, la musique, les lectures…et la révolution. Quarante ans après, l’intérêt de ce document réside autant dans les expériences vécues de Thierry que dans le portrait en creux de son interviewer.

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Derek Gregory’s Geographical Imaginations blog guide

Derek Gregory’s ever-interesting Geographical Imaginations blog now has a guide to past posts, grouped by theme.

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I’ve been pleased to see how often old posts are consulted by readers: I never intended this to be a fleet of ships passing in the digital night.

But as the blog has grown, I realise it’s become increasingly difficult to navigate through the different themes and so I’ve added a GUIDE to the tabs at the head of the page.

This lists some of the key posts which will, I hope, supplement a judicious use of the search box (and the word clouds to the right) plus the publications available under the DOWNLOADS tabs.

It’s still under construction, but let me know if you think I’ve missed anything important.

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Judith Butler – Borders and the Politics of Mourning video (keynote and discussion)

Judith Butler – Borders and the Politics of Mourning

Panel discussion with Maurizio Albahari, Alexandra Délano, Jenny Edkins, Burkhard Liebsch, and Benjamin Nienass, followed by comments from Banu Bargu and Anne McNevin.

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David Harvey Marx & Capital Lecture 6: Bad Infinity and the Madness of Economic Reason

David Harvey Marx & Capital Lecture 6: Bad Infinity and the Madness of Economic Reason

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Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre? – reading guide updated

imageI’ve updated my reading guide ‘Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre?’ – with a link to the new translation of Marxist Thought and the City and the forthcoming paperback edition of Sue Middleton’s book.

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David Harvey asks What is the cry of the streets?

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“The question of what kind of city we want cannot be divorced from that of what kind of social ties, relationship to nature, lifestyles, technologies and aesthetic values we desire. The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.”

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Books received (2) – Jefferies, Mazel, Freud-Binswanger, Spitzer, von Weizsäcker

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A more mixed bag of recently bought books – the new biography of the Frankfurt School, an intriguing looking book on medieval space, the Freud-Binswanger correspondence, and the English and German originals of two texts Foucault translated.

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Books received (1) – Connolly, Mentz, Wills, Magritte, Ghamari-Tabrizi, Marder

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Some books received in recompense for review work from University of Minnesota Press.

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Short blog post on Foucault: The Birth of Power

1509507256Over at the Polity Books blog I have a short piece on Foucault: The Birth of Power, which will be out in very early 2017.

In 1969 Foucault published The Archaeology of Knowledge, a theoretical and methodological treatise which summarised the work he had been doing throughout the 1960s. Six years later he published Discipline and Punish, a politically-charged work of history. This period saw a major development in his work, in which the vocabulary of power is elaborated and put to work in genealogies of health, madness and the disciplinary society. Foucault: The Birth of Power studies that pivotal period in Foucault’s career. [more here]

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Two days in Gießen talking about terrain, territory and terror

Screenshot 2016-12-15 14.36.19.pngI’ve just got back from two days at the University of Gießen. I had been invited to give a lecture as part of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture‘s anniversary series, and spoke on the topic of ‘Terrain: The Materiality of Territory’. While this connects to some lectures I’ve given before, this was almost all new material and will hopefully be the basis for a forthcoming publication. I’ll be giving versions of this talk in Durham, London, Oslo and Stockholm in 2017 (details of future talks here), so I won’t yet share a recording, but will likely do so at some future point.

While I was there I also led a ‘masterclass’ with PhD and MA researchers on ‘Volume, Nature, Fluid – Thinking the Materiality of Political Spaces’ – in which we read pieces by me, Derek Gregory and Phil Steinberg and Kimberley Peters. This led to a wide-ranging discussion about how these themes featured in a range of very interesting research projects. And finally, there was a roundtable discussion on ‘Spatializing Security and Terror’ with Bernd Belina (Frankfurt), Peter Haslinger (Marburg), and Andreas Langenohl (Gießen).

A busy, but enjoyable and thought-provoking two days. My thanks to Jens Kugele, Amina Nolte and Melanie Hartmann and their colleagues for the invitation and organization.

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