CfP RGS 2016: Ice, water, rock, sand, and silt: ‘Unearthing’ a Subterranean Geopolitics

Posted on January 16, 2016 by stuartelden

Call for papers for the RGS-IBG on Subterranean Geopolitics

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Books received – several more for the Foucault work, including the new Œuvres

Posted on January 15, 2016 by stuartelden

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Several books for the Foucault project, most picked up second-hand and relating to the work of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons, but also the new Œuvres and the Vrin edition of the Kant introduction along with Foucault’s translation of the text.

On an initial look, Œuvres, despite its cost, is invaluable. The two volumes comprise over 3300 pages, and it includes all Foucault’s authored books except for Maladie mentale et personnalité, Maladie mentale et psychologie and Le Désordre des familles. There are also a few shorter pieces, but none of the lecture courses. It is a critical edition, and includes, for example, the key variants between the first and second edition of Naissance de la clinique. Foucault’s notes to texts appear as footnotes, and there are a lot of editor notes to each text, as well as brief introductions, which also discuss the composition of texts. The editors have also used materials archived at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, including boxes of material which do not yet appear in the catalogue.

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Journals received – TCS, Transactions, GeoHumanities, Annals, RP

Posted on January 15, 2016 by stuartelden

Journals received – Theory, Culture and Society annual review, Transactions of the IBG, the new journal GeoHumanities launch issue, Annals of the AAG, Radical Philosophy.

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Raul Pacheco-Vega on writing and working spaces

Posted on January 15, 2016 by stuartelden

15261015115_e3dd954a6b.jpgRaul Pacheco-Vega has an interesting post on writing and working spaces. The idea of dividing spaces between writing and other work duties makes sense, as you can associate being in a location with productive work, but the 4/4.30am start sounds brutal…

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

Posted on January 14, 2016 by stuartelden

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…

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

Posted on January 14, 2016 by stuartelden

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

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

Posted on January 14, 2016 by stuartelden

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…

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

Posted on January 13, 2016 by stuartelden

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.

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How (we) Write: an introduction

Posted on January 13, 2016 by stuartelden

Andrew Latimer reflects on the How We Write collection.

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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…

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Society and Space Editorial team changes

Posted on January 12, 2016 by stuartelden

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.

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