An amazing collection of images at the French Revolution Digital Archive – a collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (via Hyperallergic – thanks to Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz and Sebastian Budgen for the link).
boundary 2 – an endlessly interesting journal that was very supportive of my early work on Foucault – launches The b2 Review online.
The print edition of b2 carries only article length reviews. We are starting an initiative to publish shorter reviews and notices of books, new and old, to which we want to draw our readers’ attention.
We will also publish lists of books. We enthusiastically invite our readers to send us short reviews or notices that might be included on this site as part of the community around b2′s research agenda.
update: In upcoming weeks, we will have much more posted here, including our review series on GLBT curated by Petra Dierkes-Thrun.
The b2 Review welcomes recommendations of reviews and reviewers. We decided to develop longer review essays for the copyrighted edition of the journal from the best of the online reviews.
News of an important conference in New York on Foucault’s first lecture course.
Origins of Truth: Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know
February 21-22, 2014
Stony Brook Manhattan
387 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10016
A conference presented by The Foucault Society and the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University
In celebration of the publication of Michel Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1970-1971 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), we invite participants to a conference in New York City.
As the first of Foucault’s annual courses, Lectures on the Will to Know set an agenda for his intellectual journey of the 1970s and 1980s. Its publication in English translation opens up new directions for research into power, knowledge and the “formation of discourses.”
This conference gathers a group of established and emerging scholars to analyze Lectures on the Will to Know – its sources, themes and intellectual, historical or political contexts. What are the multiple…
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Joanna Hodge reviews the recent biography of Walter Benjamin. Update: there is also a review in New Republic.
News of an interesting journal, just launched…
Somehow I missed the release of the new Oxford University Press London Review of International Law journal last September (Thanks Frédéric Mégret for the heads-up). I’m very excited about this and from the journals’ blurb here’s the first reason why:
The London Review of International Law publishes highest-quality scholarship on international law from around the world. Reflecting the pace and reach of developments in the field, the London Review seeks to capture the ways in which received ideas are being challenged and reshaped by new subject-matters, new participants, new conceptual apparatuses and new cross-disciplinary connections. Central aims of the London Review are to encourage imaginative thinking, inspire innovative analysis, and promote excellence in writing. While no area of international legal interest is excluded, the London Review prioritises non-doctrinal scholarship, including theory, history and socio-legal studies.
There are many great international law journals. The American Journal of International Law, European Journal International…
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Eyal Weizman discusses Sharon’s architectural and spatial legacy at Al Jazeera.
Whether in military uniform or in politics, Ariel Sharon’s time in power was characterised by construction and destruction frenzies that decisively shaped the physical realities in which both Israelis and Palestinians still struggle to live.
His legacy is not only that of a military man and a politician, but also that of an architect. Sharon, more than anyone else, has shaped the spatial realities of Israel’s occupation of Palestine…
An important 1972 book, mentioned by Foucault in Discipline and Punish, is finally coming out in English translation in March 2014, with an excellent introduction by the translators.
The Productive Body asks how the human body and its labor have been expropriated and re-engineered through successive stages of capitalism; and how capitalism’s transformation of the body is related to the rise of scientific psychology and social science disciplines complicit with modern regimes of control. In Discipline and Punish, Foucault cited Guéry and Deleule in order to link Marx’s diagnosis of capitalism with his own critique of power/knowledge. The Productive Body brings together Marxism and theories of the body-machine for the goal of political revolution.
- Very interesting analysis… The technological mutations of the apparatus of production, the division of labour and the elaboration of the disciplinary techniques sustained an ensemble of very close relations (cf. Marx, Capital, vol. i, chapter XIII and the very interesting analysis in Guerry and Deleule). Each makes the other possible and necessary; each provides a model for the other. ~ Michel Foucault
A special issues on Deleuze, Foucault and the Neoliberal Diagram.
Deleuze / Foucault: A Neoliberal Diagram, Mediatropes Vol 4, No 1 (2013)
Link to issue. Full PDFs available
Table of Contents
Editorial Introduction: Neoliberal Diagrammatics and Digital Control
Matthew Tiessen, Greg Elmer
IPO 2.0: The Panopticon Goes Public
Greg Elmer
Resilience versus Resistance: Affectively Modulating Contemporary Diagrams of Social Resilience, Social Sustainability, and Social Innovation
Petra Hroch
Monetary Mediations and the Overcoding of Potential: Nietzsche, Deleuze & Guattari and How the Affective Diagrammatics of Debt Have Gone Global
Matthew Tiessen
Info Nymphos
Erika Biddle
A New Individuation: Deleuze’s Simondon Connection
Andrew Iliadis
Special Semiotic Characters: What is an Obstacle-Sign?
Gary Genosko
Tweets Speak: Indefinite Discipline in the Age of Twitter
Steven James May
Brett Christophers has an interesting piece in Progress in Human Geography, entitled “The territorial fix: Price, power and profit in the geographies of markets” (requires subscription). It takes the notion of the ‘spatial fix’ developed by David Harvey and others and argues for a ‘territorial fix’, and developing from my claim that territory is a ‘political technology’, suggests it is also an ‘economic technology’.
The article heeds recent calls for closer attention to the geographies of markets. Speaking primarily to a rich tradition of geographical political economy, it argues that such geographies are highly material to value and profit creation and realization. In developing this argument, the article invokes the concept of a ‘territorial fix’, whereby territory is conceptualized as a technology of market-making geared to putting in place and optimizing the conditions for capital accumulation. The article draws selectively and critically on studies of territorialized market formation and pricing in two globalized industries – pharmaceuticals and television – to formulate this argument.
A new review at the Society and Space open site.
