Coming up tomorrow and Friday…
Early Modern Literary Geographies, Huntington library, San Marino, CA, 14-15 October 2016 – details here or download the programme brochure
The conference is organised around the themes of Body, House, Neighbourhood, and Region. I’ll be speaking in the last of these on “Denmark, Norway, Poland: Regional Geopolitics in Hamlet”. This is part of what I hope will be chapter 2 of my Shakespeare book.
Between Deleuze and Foucault excerpts…
Value and Anti-Value
Second Lecture in the Series: Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History
Professor David Harvey
The Graduate Center, CUNY
September 19, 2016Previous: Lecture 1 Capital as Value in Motion
Christopher Watkin, French Philosophy Today reviewed at NDPR.
11 Critical Theory books that came out in September 2016 – Jeffries, Jayawardena, Müller-Doohm, Winnubst, Badiou etc.
Call for papers for a conference in Lisbon in March on the late Foucault.
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference
GOVERNMENT OF SELF, GOVERNMENT OF OTHERS
Ethical and political questions in the late Foucault
IFILNOVA / EPLab, Lisbon, 6th-7th March 2017
Organizers
Marta Faustino, Gianfranco Ferraro, Luís de Sousa
The Laboratory of Ethics and Political Philosophy of IFILNOVA invites submissions for its international conference “Government of Self, Government of Others. Ethical and Political Questions in the Late Foucault”, to be held at the New University of Lisbon, on the 6th-7th of March, 2017.
Michel Foucault’s last lecture series at Collège de France constitute a unity that testifies a shift in his thought. This shift deepens and expands the course of his preceding works concerning the genealogy of subjectivity, while, at the same time, adding to it a significant ethical and political dimension. Foucault returns to the practices of the self in antiquity and looks at…
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Jeremy Kowalski, Domestic Extremism and the Case of the Toronto 18 – now out with Palgrave Macmillan, but unfortunately only in hardback and very expensive e-book.
This book examines domestic extremism and what is popularly referred to as radicalization. The fear of domestic extremism has been used to dismantle democracy and erect national security states throughout North America, Western Europe, and beyond. Yet, despite the enormous costs citizens have paid in the name of security, society has become less secure and less safe. In many respects, this situation has resulted from the misapprehension of the conditions that make the emergence of this threat probable. Kowalski focuses on the macro social relations and structures that make radicalization probable. As demonstrated through an analysis of the so-called Toronto 18—an extremist group arrested in June of 2006 for activities that contravened the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA)—macro social relations and structures served a significant role in creating the conditions through which the process of radicalization became probable. If a comprehensive understanding of the processes of radicalization are to be reached and effective counter-terrorism policies developed, then the consideration this book provides of greater macro social relations and structures that make the emergence of extremist subjectivities probable is needed.
Foucault Circle meeting call for papers – will also feature a screening of the fascinating documentary Sur les toits
CALL FOR PAPERS
The seventeenth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle
Los Angeles, California
March 23-25, 2017
(hosted by Loyola Marymount University)
We invite individual papers on any aspect of Foucault’s work. Studies, critiques, and applications of Foucauldian thinking are all welcome. We will aim for a diversity of topics and perspectives.
Abstracts should be prepared for anonymous review, and are to be submitted to the program committee chair, Nicole Ridgway, by email (ridgwayn@uwm.edu) on/before Friday, Nov. 18, 2016. Please indicate “Foucault Circle submission” in the subject heading, and include the abstract as a “.docx” attachment.
Individual paper submissions require an abstract of no more than 750 words.
Program decisions will be announced in December.
Each speaker will have approximately 35 minutes for paper presentation and discussion combined—papers should be a maximum of 3000 words (15-20 minutes reading time). In addition to paper sessions, the conference will also…
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New series of David Harvey lectures.
David Harvey’s new series of talks on Marx and Capital at CUNY will be available on YouTube. Here is the first lecture, delivered a few weeks ago.
Open access reviews at the Antipode site.
We’ve published some great reviews in recent months…
Colombia has been in the headlines recently, and those following the referendum’s vicissitudes will no doubt find Kate Maclean’s Social Urbanism and the Politics of Violence: The Medellín Miracle (reviewed here by Seth Schindler, University of Sheffield) fascinating.
Both Jonathan Darling (University of Manchester) and Glenda Garelli (QMUL) take on timely – indeed, urgent – issues of migration, reviewing Antoine Pécoud’s Depoliticising Migration: Global Governance and International Migration Narratives and Louise Waite and colleagues’ Vulnerability, Exploitation, and Migrants: Insecure Work in a Globalised Economy, respectively.
Also under the spotlight recently have been poverty, “resilience” and austerity – issues anatomised in Emma Bimpson’s (University of Leeds) review of Geoffrey DeVerteuil’s Resilience in the Post-Welfare Inner City: Voluntary Sector Geographies in London, Los Angeles and Sydney, Alison Hulme’s (https://commoditytactics.wordpress.com) of Owen Hatherley’s The Ministry of Nostalgia: Consuming Austerity, and Stephanie Denning’s (University of Bristol) of Kayleigh Garthwaite’s Hunger…
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