Eduardo Gudynas has recently criticised David Harvey and his research team in Ecuador for ‘simpatico [sympathetic, nice or friendly] colonialism’ (Spanish/English).
The research team (Estefanía Martínez, Verónica Morales, Carla Simbaña, Japhy Wilson, Nora Fernández, Thomas Purcell and Jeremy Rayner) respond (Spanish/English);
An earlier English translation of the response can be found at My Desiring Machines.
Updated 16 October 2015 with links to translations.
There is an interview with Daniel Defert in German here, in which he discusses Foucault’s life and work, Adorno, May 68 and political activism, the AIDES group he founded after his death, the lecture courses and the material sold to the BNF, and confirms that the History of Sexuality, Vol IV, Les aveux de la chair, will eventually be published. I already knew this from Defert, but this might be the first place it’s been publicly announced.
The article can be viewed by clicking on ‘Weiter zum Artikel’ when you load the page. Many thanks to Kai Frederik Lorentzen for the link.
Mark Carrigan’s book, Social Media for Academics, is now available to pre-order.
Social media is an increasingly important part of academic life that can be a fantastic medium for promoting your work, networking with colleagues and for demonstrating impact. However, alongside the opportunities it also poses challenging questions about how to engage online, and how to represent yourself professionally.
This practical book provides clear guidance on effectively and intelligently using social media for academic purposes across disciplines, from publicising your work and building networks to engaging the public with your research. It is supported by real life examples and underpinned by principles of good practice to ensure you have the skills to make the most of this exciting medium.
You’ll find advice on:
- Using social media to publicise your work
- Potential pitfalls and how to avoid them
- The evolving role of social media in higher education
- Defining digital scholarship
- Managing your identity online
- Finding time for social media
- Near-future trends in academia.
Visit Marks blog for more insights and discussion on social media academic practice at http://markcarrigan.net/
Open access Antipode papers on “Migration and the Refugee Crisis” to link to virtual roundtable discussion on this theme.
Antipode’s publisher, Wiley, runs a great philosophy blog – The Philosopher’s Eye. This Friday, 16 October, they will be hosting what they’re calling a “virtual roundtable discussion” on migration and the refugee crisis.
On the panel will be:
Immanuel Ness – activist and professor of political science at CUNY’s Brooklyn College, and editor-in-chief of The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration (Wiley, 2013), Ness’ research focuses on labour, urban political economy, migration, imperialism, and social mobilizations, worker insurrections, strikes and solidarity;
Serena Parekh – professor of philosophy at Northeastern University, and author of Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity: A Phenomenology of Human Rights (Routledge, 2008), Parekh’s research interests include feminist theory, continental philosophy, the philosophy of human rights, and justice, responsibility and refugees; and
Reenee Singh – London-based family therapist, editor of the Journal of Family Therapy, and co-director of the Family Therapy and Systemic Research Centre.
To join the discussion (registration is…
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The new issue of Society and Space is now out, and currently open access…
For the 2015-16 academic year I’ll be a Senior Research Fellow at University College London’s new Institute of Advanced Studies.
As well as Tamar Garb as director and Catherine Stokes as administrator, there are already four junior research fellows in place. A call for other fellows to be visitors here has a deadline of 31 October 2015, with further rounds in January and March 2016.
I’m seeing this post as an opportunity to balance two things – getting my head down and writing and being part of an intellectual community. I’ll have a shared office at UCL, just round the corner from Jeremy Bentham, and will be dividing my time between there and libraries nearby.
I’ll be giving a talk at UCL on 23 November 2015, 6pm – “The Territories and Majesty of King John”, in ‘Common Ground’ (a room in the South Wing of the Wilkins building). This is the same talk I’ll be giving at Warwick a couple of weeks earlier (abstract).
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Assistant Professor and Assistant/Associate Professor vacancies in PAIS at Warwick:
Marx’s Economic Manuscript of 1864-1865 – the draft of Capital, Vol III – now translated by Brill. Really expensive at the moment, but a paperback with Haymarket will be released in a year’s time.
Translated by Ben Fowkes. Edited and with an Introduction by Fred Moseley.
A terrific piece by Bernard Harcourt on the 1973 lectures. Many useful insights, including:
The core concept of illégalismes is a term that has somewhat erroneously been translated as “illegalities” in the English edition of Discipline and Punish. It would be more appropriate to use a neologism, such as illegalisms, because “illegalities” is actually the end state, that which, in some sense, resolves the struggle. Illegalities is what represents the culmination of a power struggle that operates through illegalisms.
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Bernard E. Harcourt, Foucault 3/13 The Punitive Society: Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, Nadia Urbinati, and the Question of the Political and Moral Economies of Punishment
[This article draws on a longer essay titled “The ’73 Graft: Punishment, Political Economy, and the Genealogy of Morals”]
In their fascinating and provocative articles on The Punitive Society, Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, and Nadia Urbinati raise a set of critical questions about Foucault’s 1973 lectures, concerning:
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I’ve not read the Lord of the Rings since I was a teenager, but this story in Wired is interesting about the construction of the world in maps that was behind it as well as languages.
From the forthcoming The Art of the Lord of the Rings, which collects Tolkiens’s preparatory drawings for his epic. Via/more at Wired.
