The 2014 Antipode AAG Lecture – ‘Zones of Black Death: Institutions, Knowledges, and States of Being’ by Rinaldo Walcott

Antipode’s 2014 AAG lecture details.

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Join us for session 2626 in Tampa, Florida – Wednesday 9th April from 4:40pm to 6:20pm in Ballroom A, TCC/Tampa Convention Center, First Floor. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception, thanks to our publisher, Wiley.

The 2014 Antipode AAG Lecture will be presented by Rinaldo Walcott. Entitled, ‘Zones of Black Death: Institutions, Knowledges, and States of Being’, Rinaldo’s paper will track the ways in which black life persists in the midst of practices, institutions, and knowledges meant to extinguish such life. The paper takes the geographies of the Americas as one zone in which black death is the foundation upon which institutions, modes of being, and other forms of life stake their claims on the world. In other words, the paper suggests that black death is a pre-condition for the common sense and being of contemporary life. The paper reflects on black death by drawing on the…

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Wahida Khandker, Philosophy, Animality and the Life Sciences – interview

philosophy-animality-and-the-life-sciencesWahida Khandker’s book Philosophy, Animality and the Life Sciences is forthcoming in July with Edinburgh University Press.

A study of pathological concepts of animal life in Continental philosophy from Bergson to Haraway

Using animals for scientific research is a highly contentious issue that Continental philosophers engaging with ‘the animal question’ have been rightly accused of shying away from. Now, Wahida Khandker asks, can Continental approaches to animality and organic life make us reconsider our treatment of non-human animals?

By following its historical and philosophical development, Khandker argues that the concept of ‘pathological life’ as a means of understanding organic life as a whole plays a pivotal role in refiguring the human-animal distinction.

There is an interview between Wahida and series editor Chris Watkin here.

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Books received – Derrida, Stiegler, Comay, Taubes, Azoulay & Ophir, Serres

books received 1A number of books from Stanford University Press in recompense for review work.

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Books received- Jaspers, Thompson, Heidegger, journals

Another pile of post today – three books by Karl Jaspers, including his Groningen lectures Reason and Existenz; Richard Yarwood’s Citizenship;the re-edition of E.P. Thompson’s Warwick University Ltd; the first volume of Heidegger’s Schwartze Hefte; and some new issues of journals. The Routledge books were in recompense for review work.

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Jacques le Goff (1924-2014)

633611-histoire-le-goffJacques le Goff, medieval historian, has died at the age of ninety. I found his work really helpful while writing The Birth of Territory, and recently consulted his collection Hérésies et sociétés dans l’Europe pré-industrielle, 11e-18e siècles in which Foucault has a chapter. There are tributes at France Culture and Liberation.

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Stanford Briefs – manuscripts in the humanities wanted

Stanford University Press have an imprint for shorter texts with a much quicker turnaround from acceptance to publication – Stanford Briefs. The imprint is across all the press’s disciplines, but I’ve been talking to senior editor Emily-Jane Cohen about the lists she manages. She is now “actively seeking submissions with broad appeal in the humanities to complement her forthcoming titles in religion, philosophy, literature, cultural studies, and the arts. The other important info for authors is that we have good royalties, quick time to publication, good price points, and that the books are available digitally as well as in print”. More details here.

 

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Graham Harman interviews with Levi Bryant and Tristan Garcia’s translators

9780748681501.coverTwo interesting interviews to accompany the EUP book series.

Mark Allan Ohm and Jon Cogburn about their translation of Tristan Garcia’s Form and Object.

Levi Bryant on his new book Onto-Cartography.

9780748679966.coverYou can read the introductions to these, and Adrian Johnston’s Adventures in Transcendental Materialism, by following the links here.

 

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Edinburgh University Press to publish critical edition of Whitehead’s works

Alfred North Whitehead’s collected works to be published as a critical edition with Edinburgh University Press.

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Great news just received in a circular email from Brian G. Henning. And what better city for a critical edition of Whitehead to be published in than Edinburgh, site of the Gifford Lectures that became Process and Reality.

 

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It is my great pleasure to announce that the editorial board of the Critical Edition of Whitehead has come to an agreement with Edinburgh University Press to publish the print edition of the published and unpublished works of Alfred North Whitehead. Moreover, through an agreement with Oxford University Press, it is anticipated that the Edition will also be available through Oxford Scholarly Editions Online.

 

We propose to inaugurate the Critical Edition of Whitehead with several volumes of unpublished and largely unknown materials, including : (a) one volume of heretofore unpublished and largely un-interpreted correspondence between Whitehead and many of the leading figures in science, mathematics, and philosophy…

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7 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in March

Critical-theory.com has another list of recently published books – Roudinesco on Lacan, Despret & Stengers, Negra & Tasker, Critchley, Shults, Zizek and Grant.

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Review of Clinical Labor

A new review at the Society and Space open site.

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