David Bowie – space on the shelf for Blackstar, but a very big hole…

IMG_1258David Bowie – space on the shelf for Blackstar, but a very big hole… The cd was on pre-order, but it was only today that I picked up the package…

Posted in Music | Tagged , | 1 Comment

Gregynog Ideas Lab V, International Politics summer school, 11-16 July 2016

We are delighted to be able to announce that the Gregynog Ideas Lab V will take place from 11 – 16 July 2016 in Newtown, Wales, UK. Set up in 2012, the Gregynog Ideas Lab is a unique opportunity for graduate students and academics working in international politics from a range of critical, postcolonial, feminist, post-structural and psychoanalytic traditions to re-examine their own work and meet new people in an open space for thinking and generating new ideas. It offers guest professor seminars, round table discussions, methodology workshops and one-to-one tutorials with the guest professors. For more information, please see the documents attached.

Provisionally, our guest professors for 2016 are: Jenny Edkins (Aberystwyth), Tom Lundborg (Swedish Institute of International Affairs), Himadeep Muppidi (Vassar), Sam Okoth Opondo (Vassar), Erzsebet Strausz (Warwick), Rob Walker (Victoria), Annick T. R. Wibben (San Francisco), and Andreja Zevnik (Manchester).

There is a reduced rate for bookings received before 31 January.

This is the last time that the organisation of the Ideas Lab will be based in Aberystwyth University. For more information about the Ideas Lab, visit our blog at http://gregynog.blogspot.co.uk/ , join our facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/675435315871900/  or email Yvonne Rinkart, our Graduate Administrator, ongregynogideaslab@gmail.com Gregynog Ideas Lab Poster.jpg

Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Red Notes, Italy 1977-8: ‘Living with an Earthquake’ – entire pamphlet online

Red Notes - Italy 1977-8Yesterday I linked to a piece written by Sartre and signed by Foucault and others. Thanks to dmf for providing a link to the entire pamphlet online.

Red Notes, Italy 1977-8: ‘Living with an Earthquake’ – entire pdf or individual pieces.

As I noted, Red Notes say that “this pamphlet or any part of it may be freely reproduced by any tendency in the revolutionary movement. Copyright protects it from being poached by capitalists”. Having it in full online is therefore only appropriate to the initial aim. A minor point, but the copy scanned has the original price of 95p in the bottom left tippexed out, with £1.50 the second-hand price in the top-right. But that markup is minor to what people are charging these days…

Posted in Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Publishing, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Appeal by Sartre, Foucault, Guattari, Deleuze and others on imprisonment of Italian intellectuals, 1977

Sartre, Foucault et al 1977 - Appeal by SartreIn 1977 Sartre, Foucault, Guattari, Deleuze, Barthes, and others wrote an open letter protesting about the imprisonment and investigation of a number of Italian intellectuals, including ‘Bifo’ (Franco Berardi) and Antonio Negri. I’d not seen this before and it is the first (but I’m sure not the last) thing missing from my bibliography of ‘The Uncollected Foucault‘ which recently appeared in Foucault Studies.

An English version appeared in Italy, 1977-8: ‘Living with an Earthquake’a pamphlet published by Red Notes in 1978. Few libraries have a copy and second-hand versions sell for obscene amounts. The inside front-cover of the pamphlet says that “This pamphlet or any part of it may be freely reproduced by any tendency in the revolutionary movement. Copyright protects it from being poached by capitalists”. I’ve uploaded a scan of the two pages here.

[Update: you can download the whole of Red Notes, Italy 1977-8: ‘Living with an Earthquake’ – entire pdf or individual pieces].

Thanks to Marcelo Hoffman to alerting me to this. Several more pieces are available to download here.

Posted in Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Politics, Uncategorized | 5 Comments

How (we) Write: an introduction

Andrew Latimer reflects on the How We Write collection.

maddycosta's avatarSomething Other

Andrew Latimer

In Autumn 2015, I read an open-access volume of collected essays by scholars working across a range of fields called How We Write. They reflected on their critical practice in relation to the subjects they write about, where they work best, how they motivate themselves, what exercises they use and who they talk to. The essays ranged from theoretical pieces to longitudinal Facebook updates. If it sounds like academics talking about being academics, it was, but there was some valuable contemplation about process and inspiration which crosses disciplines [you can read the anthology for free (and/or donate) here].

I started to think about how this type of sharing could be reconfigured when writing critically about live performance. There are lots of ongoing public interventions opening up our discipline, such as Dialogue Theatre Club, Something Other, Reading the Internet, young critics collectives, the many blogging republics which have…

View original post 380 more words

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Society and Space Editorial team changes

Editorial developments at Society and Space – two new review editors and an entirely new, fascinating and diverse editorial board.
The post also announces that Deb Cowen is stepping down as one of the editors – I worked with Deb for several years on the journal, and she added so much to its work and debates. It’s great to see she will continue to be involved as a board member.

Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Michel Foucault, Discours et vérité précédé de La parrêsia (Feb 2016)

2711626563Michel Foucault, Discours et vérité précédé de La parrêsia will appear with Vrin in February 2016. This is a critical French edition of the English language lectures on parresia delivered at Berkeley in the autumn of 1983, previously published as Fearless Speech. This edition corrects some of the transcription errors in that volume and provides a full critical apparatus. It is also the first time they have appeared in French. The volume also includes the 1982 lecture on the topic delivered in Grenoble that was recently published in Anabases and Critical Inquiry. I discuss these texts in Foucault’s Last Decade.

À l’automne 1983, Michel Foucault prononce, à l’Université de Californie à Berkeley, un cycle de six conférences intitulé Discours et vérité, dont on trouvera ici, pour la première fois, l’édition complète et critique.
Dans ces conférences, la richesse de la notion de parrêsia et son rôle stratégique pour la réflexion éthique et politique de Foucault émergent de manière évidente. Foucault retrace notamment les transformations de cette notion dans le monde antique : d’abord droit politique du citoyen athénien, la parrêsia devient, avec Socrate, l’un des traits essentiels du discours philosophique puis, avec les cyniques, de la vie philosophique elle-même dans ce qu’elle peut avoir de provoquant et même de scandaleux; enfin, aux premiers siècles de l’Empire, la parrêsia apparaît au fondement des relations entre le maître et le disciple dans la culture de soi. En faisant l’analyse de la notion de parrêsia, Foucault poursuit en même temps son projet d’une histoire du présent et pose des jalons pour une généalogie de l’attitude critique dans nos sociétés modernes et contemporaines.
Ce volume contient également la transcription d’une conférence prononcée par Foucault en mai 1982 à l’université de Grenoble, devant un public de spécialistes de la philosophie antique, qui présente un état antérieur et différent de sa réflexion sur la parrêsia.
Édition et apparat critique établis par H.-P. Fruchaud et D. Lorenzini.
Introduction par F. Gros.
Posted in Foucault's Last Decade, Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Discussion of Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis

A virtual seminar on Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis.

jlunafreire's avatarurbanculturalstudies

Good afternoon,

We would like to invite you to a continuation of a series of events that the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona has launched in Virtual Reality for the academic year of 2015-2016. They will take place at Cibola, the Department’s home in Second Life. Next conversation will be between Malcolm Compitello (The University of Arizona), Susan Divine (College of Charleston), Juliana Luna Freire (Framingham State University), Megan Saltzman (West Chester University) and the new Cibola Manager Laura Vazquez Blazquez (ABD, The University of Arizona). It will be about the relationships between urban studies and Hispanic culture. Everyone is welcome!

For Thursday, 1/21, we will be discussing Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis. If you need the text, please let us know. We will meet  at 5:00 p.m. Tucson time (7p.m. EST). 

We hope to see you at the event. In order to access Cibola, you will need to install Firestorm in your computer…

View original post 12 more words

Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Planned Violence Keynote Lecture by Eyal Weizman and Reading from Courttia Newland, University of Warwick, 20 January 2016

Registration for the final Planned Violence Keynote Lecture by Eyal Weizman and Reading from Courttia Newland, University of Warwick, 20 January 2016, is now open….

Planned Violence Warwick Lecture
Eyal Weizman, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, will deliver a lecture entitled “August Clouds: Forensic Architecture’s 2014 Gaza Investigation,” and Courttia Newland, author of several novels including The Scholar and Society Within, will read from his work.Tickets are £4 and include both the lecture and reading, as well as a wine reception.Registration is at Oxford University Stores
Download the workshop poster
Posted in Conferences, Eyal Weizman, Politics | 1 Comment

Foucault and the Politics of Health – Collaborative research and activism – UCL, 12 Jan 2016, 12.30pm

Just back from a week’s holiday, with no email or internet. Tomorrow at 1pm (refreshments from 12.30) I’ll be giving a talk entitled “Foucault and the Politics of Health – Collaborative research and activism”, to the Geography Department at University College London. This will be held in the Bedford Way building, room BW113.

Concentrating on the early 1970s, this talk will discuss Foucault’s research and activist work concerning the politics of health. This is in three registers – the research in his Collège de France seminar; his work with Félix Guattari’s CERFI group; and his role in the activist organisation Groupe Information Santé. The sources for tracing his work in these areas are uncollected, sometimes anonymous, and often unpublished. The talk will draw on published reports and pamphlets, news sources, and material archived in Paris and Normandy.

The talk will draw extensively on the work in Chapter Six of Foucault: The Birth of Power, and will be close to the talks given at LSE and the IHR late last year.

Posted in Foucault: The Birth of Power, Michel Foucault | Leave a comment