While there is a published translation into English, Henri Lefebvre’s 1973 manuscript Vers une architecture de la jouissance has, until now, not been available in French. Now an excerpt has been published in Criticat, and a full edition may be forthcoming. This issue of the journal also includes an analysis by Łukasz Stanek, editor of the English edition.
David Campbell has made his 1993 book Politics without Principle: Sovereignty, Ethics and the Narratives of the Gulf War available online as a pdf. He says something about the book here.
I’ve made some more additions to the Ebola reading list. A really useful resource is Ebola Deeply, which is an aggregating news source (see discussion of project here; and also @Eboladeeply). Thanks to David Campbell for this link.
Posted on behalf of Paul Gilroy:
Hosted by the Capture Seminar, Grégoire Chamayou – author of Manhunts: A Philosophical History [Princeton, 2012] and Théorie du drone [La Fabrique, 2013] – will be joining us at King’s to give a presentation “What is necroethics? A sketch of a critical definition” on Weds 29th of October. His talk will be in K2.31 (on the 2nd floor of the King’s building–accessed from The Strand) 6-8pm.
Marc Augé’s No Fixed Abode reviewed at the Society and Space open site.
A few books from Routledge in recompense for review work, new issues of Transactions, Review of International Studies and Theory, Culture and Society, and a first edition (1976) of the Foucault-led Les machines á guerir. As I discuss in the page on Foucault’s collaborative projects, this is very different from the 1979 version.
Derek Gregory provides some slides from his recent presentation – some very good maps here (and linked from here).
In Finland last month I gave a presentation on Law, violence and b/ordering, in which I began by making two preliminary points about border crossings and (para)military violence: trans-border incursions and transgressions have been facilitated by (i) new stealth technologies deployed by state actors and (ii) the rise of new non-state and para-state actors. Here are the relevant slides:
I derived the map showing the advance of IS(IS)/ISIL from the Institute for the Study of War; say what you like about their politics (this is the Kagans we are talking about), their maps and summaries are extremely helpful.
Now Public Intelligence has just published a series of (unclassified) maps of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan produced by the Humanitarian Information Unit of the US State Department called Conflicts Without Borders:
‘Conflicts Without Borders refers to a conflict in one country that draws in other governments and non-state actors…
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The Politics and International Studies at Warwick blog, Reconsidering Politics, has new posts on the situation in Hong Kong and new book releases from colleagues.
I’ve just received a copy of the latest Foucault lecture course to be translated, 1980’s On the Government of the Living. the translation of Du gouvernement des vivants. The French was published two years ago; there are two lecture courses out in French which are still to appear in English; and then one more to come in French. I can now go back and fill in all the dual references in Chapter Seven of the Foucault’s Last Decade manuscript, as well as check my translations of passages to Graham Burchell’s.
First, though, I have a review of this course, and the 1981 Louvain lectures Mal faire, dire vrai/Wrong Doing, Truth Telling, to complete. This will be sent to Berfrois, for whom I’ve already reviewed two of Foucault’s lecture courses (here and here).
