As well as the Italian, thanks to readers on Twitter and Facebook for alerting me to Spanish versions of these lectures – a second volume, on Power, has been published as well as the first on Knowledge.
Update: A third volume on Desire is forthcoming in Spanish, and a Turkish translation of at least the first is forthcoming.
While looking for something else, I found that the first of Deleuze’s courses on Foucault has been published in Italian. Are any other languages forthcoming? I can’t find a French version, though of course the recordings of the lectures are available online, and transcriptions have been made of some lectures.
So, is the Italian a translation of the transcribed lectures, or of some forthcoming official publication in French? Any other information would be appreciated.
[Update: two volumes are available in Spanish]
There look to be quite a few reviews of the Italian online; and an extract is here.
Two new reviews at societyandspace.com – as with all reviews, they are open access.
Interesting interview with Patricia Owens – author of Between War and Politics: International Relations and the Thought of Hannah Arendt – at E-IR.
Here’s one especially good part:
Where do you see the most exciting research/debates happening in IR at the moment?
For me, the most exciting research – and most intellectually urgent task for IR – is rethinking the relation between history and theory. The history problem in IR is obvious and well known. There is little understanding of the basics of historical research, such as source interpretation and historical method; the significance of context, temporality, and scale; and how to do good historical writing. It is still more or less openly acknowledged that history is supposed to ‘fill in’ the empirical details for theory, even among those claiming greater historical depth, such as international historical sociologists and members of the English School. Part of the problem is that these approaches are far more sociological than historical. They are excited about the intellectual possibilities of things ‘socio’, but they have ignored the historical origins of distinctly social theorising, of when and why sociological explanations for human affairs first emerged and what this history might reveal. In my view, the dominant international theories are deeply ahistorical and anachronistic in this regard. To use Buzan and Little’s words, IR has failed as an intellectual project. If it’s to be reconstituted, then we need a fundamental rethink of history and theory and the relation between them. How, as non-trained historians, can IR scholars and theorists write convincingly about the past? A form of this question is increasingly being asked at the Sussex Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) and the LSE Research Group on History and Theory.
This isn’t new, but I’d not seen this 2013 piece before – Alberto Toscano’s review of “The Intolerable-Inquiry: The Documents of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons” in Viewpoint.
We are fortunate to now have in a French edition a collection of the five booklets produced by the GIP between February 1971 and January 1973 – Intolérable, numbers 1 through 4, and a collection of prisoners’ demands – combining questionnaires and inquiries on prison conditions, texts and declarations from prison uprisings, reports by prison psychiatrists, a dossier on the killing of George Jackson and the black prison movement in the US, and correspondence and information about the wave of suicides in French prisons.
The collection, edited by Philippe Artières, was published in 2013 by Gallimard – full details here.
A previously unpublished letter by Leibniz on the geography of flooding has been published in Annals of Science with a commentary by Lloyd Strickland and Michael Church. Lloyd is a leading Leibniz scholar and Michael is one of the few physical geographers I know with a serious interest in the history of the discipline – he wrote a chapter for the Reading Kant’s Geography book I co-edited with Eduardo Mendieta. You can read my take on Leibniz’s relation to geography in Geographica Helvetica (open access).
The paper on Leibniz and flooding requires subscription, though the first fifty downloads are free, and I’m sure the authors would be pleased to send a copy to people interested beyond that.
Video coming soon, but audio of Butler’s recent London talk now available.
This should be coming out on video/youtube soon. Until then, here is an audio podcast available for download.
Here is the write up:
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…
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A link to an interview I shared earlier this week, along with two co-authored texts by Latour in Society and Space – both available open access.
New issue of Antipode out, with links to previous papers in the journal that relate to its contents.
It’s the first week of February and we’ve just published our March issue (!?)-Antipode 47:2.
As you’ll see, there are some superb essays in this issue, and we’d like to take this opportunity to make connections between them and other, either recently published or forthcoming, pieces.
Sarah Bracking’s The Anti-Politics of Climate Finance: The Creation and Performativity of the Green Climate Fund follows the design of the UN’s Green Climate Fund over the last few years, charting the struggle between states, corporations and banks and various civil society actors over the future of environmental governance. [See also Christian Parenti’s The Environment Making State: Territory, Nature, and Value.]
Noelle Brigden and Wendy Vogt’s Homeland Heroes: Migrants and Soldiers in the Neoliberal Era examines the relationship between neoliberalism and nationalism through the lenses of US citizens enlisting in the military and unauthorised Central Americans migrating to the United States…
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