Tributes to Doreen Massey

I’ve added three new tributes since first posting, plus a link to a number of Doreen’s essay on Open Democracy.

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doreen-masseyTributes to Doreen Massey:

Rob Kitchin at Ireland after NAMA

Gillian Rose at Visual/Method/Culture

Álvaro Sevilla Buitrago at Multipliciudades (in Spanish)

Nicky Gardner and Susanne Kries at Hidden Europe

Jo Littler and Jeremy Gilbert at Open Democracy

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos at Critical Legal Thinking

I’ll add more as I see them (please feel free to post in comments).

A number of Doreen’s pieces from Open Democracy are here.

My own, very brief, thoughts from yesterday are here.

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Figure/Ground interview with Miguel de Beistegui

Figure/Ground interview with Miguel de Beistegui – covers his work on Heidegger, Foucault, Proust and others.

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Umberto Eco: I Was Always Narrating

A wonderful interview with Umberto Eco about his novels and the process of writing.

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Michel Foucault and Neoliberalism (2016)

Details of a conference on Foucault and neoliberalism in Paris later this month.

Please note that the correct email address is criticaldemocracy@aup.edu

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Center for Critical Democracy Studies
American University of Paris
6 rue du Colonel Combes
Paris 75007
Room C-104

March 25-26 2016
Registration at criticaldemocracy@aup.edu.au

Friday, March 25

9h-9h15: Introductory Remarks Stephen Sawyer

9h15-10h30: Contextualizing Foucault
-Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Foucault and the Neo-liberalism Debate: On the Limitations of a Contextualist Approach
-Claudia Castiglioni, Foucault, Neoliberalism, and the Iranian revolution: an unconventional thinker confronted with an unconventional revolution

10h30-10h45: Short Coffee Break

10h45-12h: Foucault and Politics
-Duncan Kelly, Michel Foucault as Historian of Political Thought
-Aner Barzilay, A rereading of Foucault’s Lectures on the Birth of Biopolitics in light of his early reading of Marx

12h-1h30: Lunch

13h30-15h15: Foucault and the State
-Luca Paltrinieri, Beyond Foucault and neoliberalism: firms, self-employment, self-entrepreneurship today
-Luca Provenzano, Of state-phobia and conceptual inflationism: Foucault and the aporias of anti-Statism

15h15-15h30: Short Coffee Break

15h30-16h45: Was Foucault a Neo-Liberal?
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Tributes to Doreen Massey

doreen-masseyTributes to Doreen Massey:

Open University message board

Joe Painter in Soundings

Rob Kitchin at Ireland after NAMA; and ‘Geographers matter! Doreen Massey (1944-2016)‘ in Social and Cultural Geography

Gillian Rose at Visual/Method/Culture

Álvaro Sevilla Buitrago at Multipliciudades (in Spanish)

Nicky Gardner and Susanne Kries at Hidden Europe

Jo Littler and Jeremy Gilbert at Open Democracy

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos at Critical Legal Thinking

Hilary Wainwright at Open Democracy

In Memorium: Doreen Massey at Association of American Geographers

Obituary by David Featherstone in The Guardian.

A tribute to Doreen Massey by Noel Castree in Progress in Human Geography

In Memorium: Doreen Massey (1944-2016) by Tracey Skelton at the Society and Space open site

I’ll add more as I see them (please feel free to post in comments).

A number of Doreen’s pieces from Open Democracy are here. Her essays in Antipode are now open access here; and in Society and Space here. Her essayPlaces and Their Pasts“, History Workshop Journal 39 (part of a HWJ feature on ‘Re-thinking the Idea of Place’ from 1995) is also open access.

My own, very brief, thoughts from March 12th are here.

 

 

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David Bowie in Central and Eastern Europe – Constellation to Constellation: Situation, Encounter and Doubt

20140524_bkp506The new issue of CEE New Perspectives has a piece by edited Benjamin Tallis on David Bowie in Central and Eastern Europe: “Constellation to Constellation: Situation, Encounter and Doubt” open access multi-media version here.

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Doreen Massey (1944-2016)

I’m hearing news on twitter that Doreen Massey has died. This is very sad, for family and friends of course, but also for Geography, where her work had a major impact. She was one of the geographers whose work I knew about before I came into the discipline, mainly for her Spatial Divisions of Labour book but also her earlier collaborative book Capital and Land. Of course she went on to write several more books, including Space, Place and Gender, For Space and World City. I heard her talk a couple of times, once at the Soundings launch event, but only met her briefly. I can’t find an online announcement or obituary, but will link when I find one.

Update: the Open University has an announcement here.

Update 2: I’m compiling a list of tributes here.

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Books received – Marcuse, Terrain Vague, Topologies of Power and Academic Writing for Graduate Students

IMG_1339Books received – volumes 4, 5 and 6 of Herbert Marcuse’s Collected Papers, Terrain Vague: Interstices at the Edge of the Pale, and John Allen’s Topologies of Power from Routledge in recompense for review work; and Academic Writing for Graduate Students as an inspection copy.

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Foucault and Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation (video interview)

In 2015 in Prato I was interviewed for the ‘Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation‘ project, about Foucault’s late work and the Foucault’s Last Decade book.

Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation is a two-year-long research project investigating the revival of ethical self-cultivation in modern European philosophy. The project is organised by research students from the universities of Warwick and Monash and is funded by the Monash-Warwick Alliance.

The central aim of the project is to investigate the ancient conception of ethics as a practice of self-cultivation and its revival in modern European philosophy. While contemporary ethics continues to be dominated by deontological and utilitarian moral theories, this project aims to investigate the strengths and prospects of an ethics directed at the cultivation of self, character, and individual well-being. Although the revival of virtue ethics over the last decades has been well-documented, it remains largely focussed on Aristotelian ethics and often falls back into modern patterns of moral thinking.

The ideals and practices of self-cultivation have been understood in a broader and more inclusive sense in the modern European tradition, which in many ways remains closer to the conception of ethics that dominated the Hellenistic world. Turning to European thinkers, from Montaigne and Spinoza to Nietzsche and Foucault, offers us a new way of thinking about Hellenistic ethics and offers a foundation for a new ‘cultivation of the self’ strand within contemporary ethics.

The primary objective of the project is to investigate and expand the conceptual basis for an ethics of self-cultivation and to evaluate its prospects as a moral theory. The secondary objective is to recast our understanding of European thinkers as important contributors to the modern revival of virtue ethics.

Prof Elden’s latest book can be found at:

Foucault’s Last Decade
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New York and London launch events for Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds

Details of the two launch events for the Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds collection, edited by Maayan Amir and Ruti Sela as part of the Exterritory Project. The book is available for a low-cost download or print-on-demand, and in time will be fully open access.

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