Call for papers for an interesting looking conference – full details here (thanks to Ghayde Ghraowi for the link).
Beirut: Bodies in Public is a three-day workshop inviting artists and researchers to think through the interdisciplinary concerns surrounding performance in public space in Beirut.
The Biopolitics of Biometrics: An Interview with Btihaj Ajana, conducted by David Beer on the Theory, Culture & Society website.
This interview focuses upon Btihaj Ajana’s recently published book Governing Through Biometrics: The Biopolitics of Identity (2013). Although the interview focuses centrally upon the book, it also covers broader topics including identity, measurement, the work of Foucault, big data, biopolitics, bioethics and biometrics.
This looks a valuable resource – audio and video recordings from the University of Cambridge city seminar. Thanks to dmfant for the link.
I made time to watch this powerful, and moving, lecture recently. I think I linked to it at the time, but worth a reminder. Well worth the time – some very good discussion of terrain and nature in warfare – especially mud, desert and jungle.
Derek says a little about the lecture at his Geographical Imaginations site.
Red Quill Books, the radical publisher, have a new website.
This collection finally published – I have a piece in it on ‘space’. Looking forward to seeing this, though the price means this is destined only for libraries…
The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon
Editors:
Leonard Lawlor, Pennsylvania State University
John Nale, Pennsylvania State University
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Foucault’s extant manuscript papers – all 37,000 pages of them – have been moved to the Bibliothèque Nationale – story here (in French pp. 26-7; via here – in German).
Michael Shapiro discusses Deadwood and The Wire in Geopolitics (requires subscription). Thanks to Elena dell’Agnese for the link.
Bud Osborn’s poem, and the whole set of commentaries on the International Conference in Critical Geography, open access to commemorate Bud’s life.
A set of images of covers of books on Foucault… and their problems. I actually like the Lois McNay cover, but there are some hideous ones here…
Something to bear in mind for Foucault’s Last Decade, though I continue to like the cover image for the book Jeremy Crampton and I edited on Foucault – one of only two times in my publishing career where my/our suggestion for the cover was enthusiastically welcomed by the press (the other was The Birth of Territory). All my book covers are here.
