The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Thanks for reading!
Here’s an excerpt:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 450,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 19 days for that many people to see it.
A recent piece by Negri on reading Foucault with Marx.
Generation online has posted Arianna Bove’s translation of Negri’s presentation from the Marx-Foucault Colloquium at Nanterre, December 18-19, 2014.
David Harvey’s essay for the exhibition catalog of Uneven Growth Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities is published here on post to mark the opening of the exhibition.
(via Reading Capital with David Harvey)
A Spanish interview with David Harvey has been translated at My Desiring Machines. I’m not sure if it was conducted in Spanish or this is a re-translation. Anyway, it’s nice to have it available. It was posted in parts, but the whole thing can be read here.
Judith Butler, ‘Human Shield’ – lecture at LSE on 4 February 2015 (details)
Recent debates about human shields in the summer bombardment of Gaza raised the question of how the unarmed human form comes to be regarded as a military instrument. The lecture will consider how the perception of racialized bodies as threatening instruments informs both the public debates on the use of children as human shields in Gaza and the numerous figures of unarmed Black men and women in US cities who are gunned down either because they seem to be reaching for weapons or because their gestures, including their standing still, are regarded as weapons. In the context of the increasing militarization of police forces tasked with containing or eliminating social protest against social and economic inequality, how is racial perception both built and ratified through recasting the human form as threatening instrument? To what extent does the racialized structure of the visual field become instrumental to justifying the unjustifiable?
I’ve made a list of uncollected notes, lectures and interviews by Michel Foucault. Many of these have been posted on this site before, but this is an attempt at collecting details and links in one place. There are a couple of scans of hard to find material.
The four-volume Dits et écrits collects almost all the short pieces published in any language in Foucault’s lifetime. For an English bibliography of translations of pieces in Dits et écrits, see Richard Lynch’s work (available at www.michel-foucault.com and updated in A Companion to Foucault). I’ve not repeated any of that information, nor listed his major works or the lecture courses.
The list is of pieces which didn’t make it into Dits et écrits, but which are available in some form. With a couple of exceptions where I can link to an online version or to correct a reference I’ve not included things in Jacques Lagrange’s ‘Complément bibliographique’ in Dits et écrits (Vol IV, 829-38).
On Foucault’s collaborative projects, see the list here; for audio and video recordings here.
Corrections and additions very welcome.
Although it appears in at least one bibliography of the better-known Henri Lefebvre, Les unités perdues, translated as The Missing Pieces, is actually by a different author, born in 1959. It’s an interesting book on abandoned, lost, destroyed, forgotten and unfinished works, and a short excerpt is available on the Berfrois website.
Verso have an ebook sale – 90% off until January 1st 2015.
I picked up nine for less than £15 – books by Eric Hazan, Danny Dorling, Slavoj Zizek, Shlomo Sand, Walter Benjamin, Stanley Aronowitz, Keller Easterling, Arundhati Roy and Marcus Rediker.
This isn’t recent news, but I hadn’t seen this before. Foucault’s preparatory notes to Les mots et les choses (The Order of Things) are available online at La bibliothèque de Foucault : Guide des papiers de travail de Michel Foucault.
The page reproduced left and here is on Kant’s ‘Des différentes races humaines’ from 1775. Thanks to Benoît Dillet, whose excellent review of the L’Herne volume on Michel Foucault alerted me to this resource.
Les mots et les choses isn’t within the time period I’m working on for the current book, But if it were, this would be an invaluable resource.
Perhaps material from the later years will become available in time for a second edition…
