Progressive Geographies

Foucault and ancient polizei: a genealogy of the military pastorate (2015)

Posted on April 9, 2015 by stuartelden

This looks interesting, with link to the full piece.

Kevin Scott Jobe, Foucault and ancient polizei: a genealogy of the military pastorate, Journal of Political Power, Vol. 8, No. 1, 21, 2015
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2015.1011378

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Abstract

While Foucault claimed that biopower, as a form of political pastorate, did not exist in ancient Greece, he did take the view, following Hegel, that the ancient ‘ethical community’ [sittlichkeit] constituted a kind of ‘political technology of the individual’, an ancient form of ‘police’. In this paper, I trace Foucault’s conception of ‘police’ in his Tanner Lectures to Hegel’s analysis of politeia as the origin of the modern polizei. Through an examination of politeia in ancient political and military literature, I uncover a military–pastoral technology, founded on the relation not between shepherd–flock, but between leader [hegemon] and follower [epistatae]. I suggest two forms that a military–pastoral technology has taken shape, both in the

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Imitation, Contagion, Suggestion: Rethinking the Social – conference at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, 28–29 May 2015

Posted on April 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Imitation, Contagion, Suggestion: Rethinking the Social – conference at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, 28–29 May 2015. Full details here.

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Volume 33, Issue 2 now out

Posted on April 8, 2015 by stuartelden

New issue of Society and Space now out

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Books received – Connolly, Rickels, Sartre, Casey

Posted on April 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Some more books from UMP – older books by Connolly, Rickels, Sartre and Casey.

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Books received – GIA, Derrida, Vora, Lorimer, le Doeuff, Braver, Transactions

Posted on April 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Publications by the Groupe Information Asiles and Groupe Information Santé; Derrida’s Cinders, Vora’s Life Support, Lorimer’s Wildlife in the Anthropocene, le Doeuff’s Hipparchia’s Choice; Braver’s Heidegger; and the new issue of Transactions. The UMP books and the Braver are recompense for review work.

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Amanda Rogers reviews Carolyn Pedwell’s Affective Relations at the Society and Space open site

Posted on April 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Amanda Rogers reviews Carolyn Pedwell’s book Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy (Palgrave Macmillan 2014) at the Society and Space open site.

Pedwell’s rich study examines the diverse ways in which empathy is mobilised – from political speeches that uphold neoliberalism, to postcolonial literatures that refuse certain forms of empathic connection. Empathy is an affective relation often conceptualized in liberal and neoliberal thought as the imaginative and felt ability to “put oneself in the other’s shoes”. In challenging the appropriative dynamics of this mode of perspective taking, alongside its assumptions of universality, Affective Relations underscores the multiple configurations of empathy across different contexts.

Continue reading the review here.

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Heidegger, National Socialism and the editing of the Gesamtausgabe

Posted on April 7, 2015 by stuartelden

The Daily Nous reported a story about the editing of the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe a few days ago. The initial story was that some things – politically highly charged – had been deleted or changed in the editing of the texts. The Gesamtausgabe has long been known to be unreliable, but this was a new set of revelations.

The story has now been updated, which shows that the initial reporting was somewhat flawed. The comments below the story are well worth reading – Peter Trawny (editor of the ‘Black Notebooks’) contributes, as does Julia Ireland, whose reconstruction of a manuscript page from the 1934-35 Hölderlin course is part of the story. The manuscript page – the illustration here, but is available in full in Ireland’s recent article in Research in Phenomenology – shows the formidable challenges for editors. The article is well worth a look.

Update: Julia Ireland’s article is available here open access.

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Alix Cohen (ed.), Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology – reviewed at NDPR

Posted on April 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Alix Cohen (ed.), Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology: A Critical Guide is reviewed at NDPR. Here’s the publisher description.

Kant’s lectures on anthropology, which formed the basis of his Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798), contain many observations on human nature, culture and psychology and illuminate his distinctive approach to the human sciences. The essays in the present volume, written by an international team of leading Kant scholars, offer the first comprehensive scholarly assessment of these lectures, their philosophical importance, their evolution and their relation to Kant’s critical philosophy. They explore a wide range of topics, including Kant’s account of cognition, the senses, self-knowledge, freedom, passion, desire, morality, culture, education and cosmopolitanism.

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