Open access philosophy books

PenumbraCritical Theory links to five open access philosophy books that are worth reading. Three will be familiar to regular readers of this blog, but Penumbr(a) – a collection of essays from the journal Umbr(a) – and Immersion Into Noise are not ones I’ve linked to before.

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Jacques Chancel interviews Foucault (audio 1975)

An audio recording of a Foucault interview from 1975.

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10 mars 1975

Jacques CHANCEL s’entretient avec le philosophe, professeur au Collège de France, Michel FOUCAULT.
Emission diffusée le 10 mars 1975 sur France Inter.

[Editor: Update 14 March 2026. No longer available online. You may be able to find a transcription in Michel Foucault, Entretiens radiophoniques 1961-1983, Flammarion/Vrin/INA, 2024]

– Générique début

– A 00’57 : sur le savoir, a toujours été dans le savoir. Mai 1968 a été une révolte contre l’interdiction d’un certain savoir, Mai 68 a été une ouverture et invasion d’un nouveau type de savoir, ses diplômes, son enseignement au Collège de France. Le savoir doit être lié au plaisir, la pression des parents sur les enfants, l’importance relative des diplômes, l’impression qu’il veut offrir à son lecteur.

– A 18’57 : pourquoi il a écrit sur la folie, le savoir médical lié au pouvoir psychiatrique, le livre “Histoire de la folie”. La psychiatrie…

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Antipode at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2013

Bruce Braun to give the Antipode lecture at the upcoming RGS-IBG conference.

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We’re delighted that Bruce Braun will be presenting the 2013 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture on Wednesday 28th August between 16:50 and 18:30 in the Ondaatje Theatre. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception between 18:45-20:00 in the Map Room. Our colleagues at Wiley will be filming the lecture and will make it available as a part of our Lecture Series videos.

Bruce BraunBruce is Professor of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Intemperate Rainforest: Nature, Culture, and Power on Canada’s West Coast (University of Minnesota Press, 2002), and co-editor of Remaking Reality: Nature at the Millennium (Routledge, 1998) and Social Nature: Theory, Practice, and Politics (Blackwell, 2001) with Antipode‘s very own Noel Castree, and Political Matter: Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) with Sarah Whatmore. He is also one of the editors of the Annals of…

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2014 CFP Announcement: Queering the Quotidian

An interesting looking conference coming up in Atlanta – call for papers now open.

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We are pleased to announce the theme for our 2014 symposium, “Queering the Quotidian: Differential and Contested Spaces Within Neoliberalism.” Below you will find our CFP, which includes details regarding important dates and contact information.

2014 Symposium CFP – Queering the Quotidian: Differential and Contested Spaces Within Neoliberalism

The Society for Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, and Everyday Life invites submissions for our annual symposium to be held March 07, 2014 at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. This year’s theme is “Queering the Quotidian: Differential and Contested Spaces Within Neoliberalism,” and our keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Jen Jack Gieseking of the Digital and Computational Studies Initiative at Bowdoin College. Gieseking’s work examines the everyday co-productions of space and identity that support or inhibit social, spatial, and economic justice in urban and digital environments, with a special focus on sexuality and gender.

While many critical interrogations of neoliberalism…

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Sara Fregonese, Waiting for the spillover. Why reinforcing borders won’t strengthen Lebanon’s sovereignty and keep it out of conflict.

Sara Fregonese discusses the current situation in Lebanon at the Society and Space open site.

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From Coxhoe to Coventry

I’ve been offline the last few days, moving house from County Durham to Earlsdon, Coventry. My colleagues at Durham treated me to two very nice evenings to say goodbye – the department and the Institute of Advanced Study both took me out for meals. Many thanks to all, and especially for the generous gifts.

I start work at the University of Warwick on 1st September. My new email address is stuart.elden [at] warwick.ac.uk – this works now and the Durham one will soon be closed.

 

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Urban Cultural Studies audio podcasts

Urban Cultural Studies using multimedia alongside the forthcoming journal.

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Issue 4 out

Society and Space issue 4 out – lots of great papers here, including ones by Crampton, Neocleous, Holt and Longhurst, and review essays by Barkan and Reid-Henry…

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Books received

Mainly some books from Routledge in recompense for review work, but also Shiloh Krupar’s Hot Spotter’s Report and the new issue of Geographica Helvetica (which included my piece ‘Leibniz and Geography‘.

books received 13 August

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What Does It Mean To Edit An Open Access Journal?

Interesting interview with the editor of an open access journal.

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Yet another post on open access, but this time featuring a non-Disorder voice. I recently exchanged emails with Dr Eva Erman of Uppsala University on the possibilities and constraints of open access publishing. Eva is the Chief Editor of Ethics & Global Politics, a fully open journal that not only attracts authors of note in normative international political theory (Zygmunt Bauman, Saskia Sassen, Bruno Latour, John Agnew, R.B.J. Walker, Heikki Patomäki, Lea Ypi, Catherine Lu, and our own Rahul Rao!), but has also achieved an Impact Factor above that of many well-known and ‘closed’ journals (0.808, putting it 20th in Ethics and 53rd in Political Science).[1]As we have already discussed, fully open journals of this kind (what might be termed ‘No APC Gold’ journals) can face serious resource constraints, so it is worth understanding what might be possible. My exchange with Eva is book-ended with…

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