Where should you start with reading Peter Sloterdijk? I updated my guide to Henri Lefebvre yesterday, and have now updated the guide to Sloterdijk – there are two new translations coming out later this year – Stress and Freedom and In the Shadow of Mount Sinai – as well as a book on Sloterdijk by Jean-Pierre Couture.
A very good discussion of academic book publishing by publisher editors at Daily Nous – philosophy editors, but lots of good stuff for many disciplines.
Last Call for Abstracts
MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, 1-3 September 2015
‘Resistance and Power beyond Foucault’
Convener: Guilel Treiber, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven (Guilel.Treiber@hiw.kuleuven.be)
The nature of political power is changing. The state is no longer the only, or even the main player in the complex mechanisms of power structures at the beginning of the 21st century. Foucault’s oeuvre has a crucial role in analyzing these changes and emphasizing the productive element of power against the idea that power (and the state as its embodiment) fulfills a merely repressive function. Resistance, as a counter-part to power, is changing as well. However, the academic analysis of resistance has remained constrained within the framework of strike and protest, both essentially practices of resistance to repressive state power. What would be a resistance to a productive power, and what could the relation between the two be?
More details at Foucault News.
Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology is celebrating its 46th Year, and has made some of its classic papers available open access. Includes pieces by Husserl, Sartre, Heidegger, Gadamer, Lingis…
Thanks to Enowning for the link.
Lefebvre’s La pensée marxiste et la ville – forthcoming in translation from University of Minnesota Press – is reviewed by Łukasz Stanek in The Journal of Architecture (open access).
My guide Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre? has been updated with news of forthcoming translations – Metaphilosophy, Marxist Thought and the City, and the rural essay in Antipode.
Update: pieces are now available: Henri Lefebvre, The Theory of Ground Rent and Rural Sociology : Contribution to the International Congress of Sociology, Amsterdam, August 1956, translated by Matthew Dennis, edited by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton
Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Thinking Past Henri Lefebvre: Introducing “The Theory of Ground Rent and Rural Sociology”
A translation of Henri Lefebvre’s 1956 essay ‘The Theory of Ground Rent and Rural Sociology’ is forthcoming in Antipode in issue 1 of 2016. The essay first appeared as “Théorie de la rente foncière et sociologie rurale”, in the Transactions of the Third World Congress of Sociology. It was later reprinted in Lefebvre’s collection Du rural à l’urbain in 1970.
The essay was translated by Matthew Dennis, and edited by Adam David Morton and me. We also wrote an introduction to the piece providing the background and linking it to a range of historical and contemporary debates – which is actually longer than the essay itself.
Adam and I hope that this will be the first of a few pieces of Lefebvre’s rural writings to appear in English. Until now only a couple of pieces on this topic have been translated: one essay in Key Writings and one in the first volume of the Critique of Everyday Life.
You can read more about the overall project in a post for Politics Reconsidered: Why read a long dead French Marxist to think about land struggles today?
I’d like to think this was satire, but it appears not… The Philosopher’s Jumper. Though I guess if you’re prepared to pay £150 then the joke’s on you anyway…
Thanks to James Kneale for the alert.
They try to suggest various people, including Samuel Beckett and, right, Foucault and Sartre are modelling it.
If you want sartorial satire, the picture below wins every time…
Interview with Judith Butler on gender and the trans-experience at the Verso Books site.
Long, somewhat rambling, but frequently interesting interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in The Hindu [corrected – not The Hindu Times].
