Peter Sloterdijk, Spheres III: Foams – forthcoming in September 2016

9781584351870The third and final volume of Peter Sloterdijk’s SpheresFoams, is forthcoming in September 2016 from Semiotext(e).

Foams completes Peter Sloterdijk’s celebrated Spheres trilogy: his 2,500-page “grand narrative” retelling of the history of humanity, as related through the anthropological concept of the “Sphere.” For Sloterdijk, life is a matter of form, and in life, sphere formation and thought are two different labels for the same thing. The trilogy also together offers his corrective answer to Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time, reformulating it into a lengthy meditation of Being and Space—a shifting of the question of who we are to a more fundamental question of where we are.

In this final volume, Sloterdijk’s “plural spherology” moves from the historical perspective on humanity of the preceding two volumes to a philosophical theory of our contemporary era, offering a view of life through a multifocal lens. If Bubbles was Sloterdijk’s phenomenology of intimacy, and Globes his phenomenology of globalization, Foams could be described as his phenomenology of spatial plurality: how the bubbles that we form in our duality bind together to form what sociological tradition calls “society.” Foams is an exploration of capsules, islands, and hothouses that leads to the discovery of the foam city.

The Spheres trilogy ultimately presents a theology without a God—a spatial theology that requires no God, whose death therefore need not be of concern.

As with the two preceding volumes, Foams can be read on its own or in relation to the rest of the trilogy.

Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for the link. I’ve updated my reading guide to Sloterdijk with a link to this work. (Incidentally, I’m not sure why ‘foams’, since ‘foam’ is already plural…)

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Kanthropology – CRMEP Graduate Conference 19-20 May 2016

Kanthropology – CRMEP Graduate Conference, Kingston University, 19-20 May 2016

“The mainstream marginalization of Kant’s anthropological writings, in part due to their racist content, arguably makes philosophy ill-equipped to think some of today’s most pressing concerns, notably with regard to ableism, racism, classism and sexism in philosophical discourse.”

The 2016 Graduate Student Conference of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP; Kingston University) will focus on Kant’s anthropological works and their legacy. An associated reading group shall precede it.

Stella Sandford and Lewis Gordon as keynotes. Looks good, though clashes with the Political Geography conference at Warwick. But what a shame that no papers seem to connect the Anthropology to the Physical Geography

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Peter Sloterdijk, Not Saved: Essays after Heidegger – forthcoming in late 2016 from Polity

Not Saved: Essays after Heidegger, translation by Ian Alexander Moore and Christopher Turner, Cambridge, Polity Press, forthcoming November 2016.

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Duke University Press Launches New Series Collecting Writings of Stuart Hall

Stuart Hall, Collected Writings forthcoming from Duke University Press.

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downloadStuart Hall (1932–2014) is widely acknowledged as one of the foremost cultural theorists and public intellectuals of the late twentieth century. Though circulated, read, and taught for decades, Hall’s seminal essays are widely dispersed, with many pieces out of print or difficult to find. A new Duke University Press book series Stuart Hall: Selected Writings brings together Hall’s well-known works with previously unpublished ones to create a portrait of his wide-ranging intellectual and political investments. The series will include the North American edition of Hall’s memoir, Displacements: Lives and Ideas in Two Black Diasporas.

The editors of the series are Stuart Hall’s widow Catherine Hall, of University College, London; and Bill Schwarz of Queen Mary, University of London. As the literary executors of Stuart Hall’s estate, they have engaged many of Hall’s students and colleagues—often major figures in themselves— to produce the series volumes.

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Jacques Bidet, Foucault with Marx

513OUC4jIzL._SX323_BO1,204,203,200_Jacques Bidet, Foucault with Marx is now out with Zed books. While I confess to being a bit disappointed with this, the book has some good advance praise from Etienne Balibar and Bob Jessop…

‘The ongoing confrontation between Marx and Foucault is a primary theoretical issue implicit in every political struggle today, whether domestic or international.  Bidet’s careful and detailed staging of the intersections of these two quite different bodies of theory is an indispensable exercise.’ Fredric Jameson, author of The Political Unconscious and Marxism and Form  ‘In the growing literature confronting and combining the legacies of Marx and Foucault, Jacques Bidet’s contribution will stand out with exceptional relevance. It is both firmly anchored in the author’s doctrine of the “dual” nature of capitalist domination (capital as property and capital as knowledge) and full of imaginative readings of the texts.’

Etienne Balibar, co-author of Reading Capital

‘In this important work, Jacques Bidet shows with patient and piercing insight why it is necessary to think Foucault with Marx (and Marx with Foucault) in order to make sense of the contemporary world. It will undoubtedly become an essential work for anyone seeking to think through the productive relations between the two thinkers.’ Nick Srnicek, co-author of Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work ‘Bidet creatively interrogates Marx’s critique of property and class relations and Foucault’s critique of knowledge-power relations to produce an original synthesis that informs a novel approach to resistance and struggles for counter-hegemony in the present neoliberal conjuncture.’

Robert Jessop, author of The Future of the Capitalist State

Peter_Hammill_The_Future_NowGood cover, though it does remind me of Peter Hammill’s album The Future Now from 1978…

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Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth course due in English in October 2016

Foucault’s 1980-81 course, Subjectivity and Truth, is due for publication in English in October/November 2016. Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for alerting me to this. At the moment details are few, but the price is high at £82 or $119. I hope this isn’t a sign of how Palgrave, now part of Springer, will be pricing from now on. As previously mentioned, this is the last of the courses translated by Graham Burchell – he has done all but the first (‘Society Must Be Defended‘) and the last to be translated, Penal Theories and Institutions.

Update: I now understand that Graham Burchell is translating Penal Theories and Institutions.

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Ian Kline on “On Schmitt and Space” by Claudio Minca and Rory Rowan

Claudio Minca and Rory Rowan’s book on Schmitt reviewed on the Society and Space open site.

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Books received – Arden Shakespeare and Stuff Theory

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I recently did some review work for Bloomsbury, and asked for a number of the revised editions of the Arden Shakespeare; the one volume I didn’t already have; and Maurizia Boscagli’s Stuff Theory, in recompense.

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5 émissions sur Michel Foucault. Radio France (2016)

Five radio programmes on Foucault from France Culture.

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Michel Foucault, France Culture radio, Émissions • Hors-champs • Michel Foucault,
5 émissions, mars 2016

A l’occasion de la sortie dans la Pléiade de l’œuvre de Foucault, toute une semaine avec Michel Foucault, il s’agira de penser avec Michel Foucault, grâce à Michel Foucault et d’envisager Michel Foucault demain. Comprendre l’ampleur à la fois intellectuelle, politique, historique et philosophique de son œuvre, sans faire œuvre testamentaire, ni patrimoniale, en tentant de se projeter dans ce présent intense.

L’énigme Foucault: Daniel Defert et Fréderic Gros

Les enjeux théoriques de l’oeuvre de Foucault: Jean Birnbaum et Philippe Artières

Foucault, la société punitive et l’Amérique avec Bernard Harcourt

Didier Eribon: Michel Foucault, du philosophe au militant

La trajectoire philosophique et politique de Michel Foucault
Pour cette dernière émission consacrée au philosophe Michel Foucault, l’historien Patrick Boucheron, le militant anti-sida Daniel Defert et le philosophe Fréderic Gros explorent la trajectoire philosophique et politique de…

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A mobile life – tribute to John Urry at TCS blog

Peter Adey has a very good tribute to John Urry at the Theory, Culture & Society blog.

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