Thanks to Peter Gratton for the link to this interview with Markus Gabriel.
This was posted a week or so ago, but is still a good overall view of what he has been working on. He’s recently published Why the World Does not Exist and Fields of Sense, both out in the last three months. (Not sure a philosopher arguing the world doesn’t exist should have such a self-regarding photo for this interview, but he’s up to interesting work.)
Thanks to Andrea Teti for sending details of this event in Paris for the new lecture course. I’m currently writing a review of it for Berfrois.
Mardi 2 juin 2015, 9h – 18h
“Premières lectures, premières réactions, et pistes de recherches”
Journée d’étude autours de M. Foucault, “Théories et institutions pénales. Cours au Collège de France. 1972-1973”
avec : Étienne Balibar▪ Claude-Olivier Doron▪ François Ewald ▪ Frédéric Gros ▪ Bernard Harcourt ▪ Robert Jacob ▪ Sacha Raoult ▪ Stephen Sawyer ▪ Arianna Sforzini ▪ Arnaud Teyssier ▪ Julien Théry
Columbia Global Centers/Europe, Reid Hall, 4 rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris
Autour de Théories et institutions pénales (1972) Journée d’études
9:00 Introduction – Bernard E. Harcourt, Columbia University/EHESS
9:10 Frédéric Gros, Sciences Po
10:00 Stephen W. Sawyer, American University in Paris
10:45 Pause
11:00 Table ronde: « Foucault et l’histoire » – Claude-Olivier Doron, Université Paris-Diderot
Robert Jacob, CNRS-Lamop
Julien Théry, Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier III
Arnaud Teyssier, ENA/ENS
13:00 Pause
14:00 François Ewald, Responsable de l’édition des cours de Michel Foucault au Collège de France
14:45 Panel : « Foucault, le droit pénal, et la théâtralisation »
Arianna Sforzini, Université Paris-Est Créteil
Sacha Raoult, Université Aix-Marseille
Bernard E. Harcourt, Columbia University/EHESS
16:00 Pause
16:15 Keynote: Étienne Balibar, Université Parix X/Columbia University
Interesting piece at the Impact of Social Sciences blog by Mark Carrigan.
The imagined slowness of university life has given way to a frenetic pace, defined by a perpetual ratcheting up of demands and an entrepreneurial ethos seeking new and quantifiable opportunities. Mark Carrigan explores the toxic elements of this culture and its underlying structural roots. As things get faster, we tend to accept things as they are rather than imagining how they might be. But the very speed of social media may act as a short-circuit. The limited investment necessary means that social media can allow the imagination to thrive.
When questioned by a friend in 1980 as to whether he was happy at Princeton, the philosopher Richard Rorty replied that he was “delighted that I lucked into a university which pays me to make up stories and tell them”. He went on to suggest that “Universities permit one to read books and report what one thinks about them, and get paid for it” and that this is why he saw himself first and foremost as a writer, in spite of his already entrenched antipathy towards the philosophical profession which would grow with time. It’s a lovely idea, isn’t it? This is the thought that keeps coming back to me as I’m preparing to participate in the Time Without Time symposium in Edinburgh later this week… [continues]
This is an edited extract of a three part reflection (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) which first appeared on the author’s personal blog.
An English translation of Deleuze’s first seminar from 1956-57, What is grounding? is available to download. The book is open access, and just needs an email address to receive the download link. A French version is online here.
What is Grounding? is Gilles Deleuze’s first seminar, and is distinguished in that, rather than “taking an author from behind and giving him a child that would be his offspring, yet monstrous”, the work focuses instead on the question of grounding, defined both as “the sufficient reason for concrete entities”, and “the point of departure for philosophy”, in translator Arjen Kleinherenbrink’s terms. Rather than foregrounding method, in which human subjective experience remains primary, here Deleuze affirms the centrality of system, of things and the relations between things.
“Nothing less than the ur-text for Deleuze’s pre-1970s philosophy, an original sketch of his main themes and problems, which are all present in intensely compacted form” – Christian Kerslake (Radical Philosophy).
David Nicholls, “Google v old-fashioned legwork – how to research a novel” – reflections on literature and sense of place.
I previously shared the Spanish language call for this conference, but here’s the English details – interpretation will be provided.
Neil Smith, who prematurely died in 2012, has had an immense influence on the discipline of geography and on the social sciences in general: his works on global capitalism, uneven development and processes of urban regeneration and gentrification are key contributions. His theorizations on space as a product of capitalist development and on the strategies of capital over the processes of urban change have been used worldwide in many empirical studies. His militancy and activism in several causes is still today an example of commitment and involvement for all social scientists.
This conference, organized by [espaiscritics], focuses on Neil Smith’s work and is addressed to all those interested in urban social theory. It will rely on the presence of the most prestigious international experts on the work and the topics that defined Neil Smith’s trajectory. The conference is open to the participation of academics and researchers as well as to activists and members of social urban movements.
On the occasion of the conference, volume 6 of the “Espacios críticos” series will be launched. The book is specifically devoted to the intellectual figure of Neil Smith and is written by professors Luz Marina García Herrera and Fernando Sabaté Bel (Universidad de La Laguna). The “Espacios críticos” series (Icaria Edtorial) is directed by Abel Albet (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and Núria Benach (Universitat de Barcelona).
Keynotes from Deborah Cowen, Don Mitchell, Luz Marina García Herrera, Tom Slater, Fernando Sabaté Bel and Maria Dolors Garcia Ramon. Call for papers and more details here.
Another volume in the neoliberalism debate…
Serge Audier, Penser le « néolibéralisme ». Le moment néolibéral, Foucault, et la crise du socialisme, Lormont, Le Bord de l’eau, coll. « Documents », 2015, 570 p., ISBN : 9782356874030.
Qu’est-ce vraiment que le néolibéralisme ? Et comment en sortir ?
Pour répondre à ces questions, il peut être utile d’élucider d’abord le sens du basculement néolibéral que le monde a connu depuis la fin des années 1970.
Il se trouve que c’est précisément durant cette période, en 1979, que Michel Foucault devait prononcer au Collège de France quelques leçons sur le néolibéralisme appelées à connaître bien plus tard un succès fulgurant. Depuis, un flot ininterrompu de publications ne cesse de célébrer en Foucault le grand prophète du néolibéralisme.
Pour beaucoup, tout a été déjà dit sur l’essence de la « rationalité néolibérale » dans ces leçons géniales qui ont parfaitement su anticiper notre monde, celui…
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Provisionalia: Index Librorum Scholasticorum – collated by Robert Pasnau.
Provisionalia is a guide and repository for texts and translations of scholastic philosophy and theology. The site aspires to list every scholastic author whose works have been the subject of scholarly attention, and to provide the following information:
The titles of their extant works and the dates of composition
Brief publication information for any Latin editions and translations into any language
Information about editions and translations in progress.
Links, where available, to provisional editions and translations.
The site will not in general attempt to provide links to digital reproductions of older books.
Looks an invaluable resource for people working in this area. Thanks to Alfred Denker for the link.
Andrew Barry has a very interesting new essay published, “Geography and Other Disciplines” – a discussion of geography and the canon. There is also an introduction to the theme issue of which this is part by Richard Powell [update: corrected from earlier suggestion this was a reply]. Barry makes quite extensive use of my book The Birth of Territory and some of the more methodological pieces I wrote around that time; situating his argument around the ideas of Quentin Skinner, Michel Foucault and Isabelle Stengers. Both papers require subscription.
