English Professor Steve Mentz has an interesting post on how Sloterdijk relates to his book-in-progress Shipwreck and the Ecology of Globalization. I really enjoyed his earlier book At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean, so looking forward to his work on this question.
Close Up at a Distance reviewed.
New editorial collective at Antipode, with interviews with two of the team.
As of this month, Antipode is in the capable hands of a new Editorial Collective: Nik Theodore (University of Illinois at Chicago); Sharad Chari (University of the Witwatersrand);Vinay Gidwani (University of Minnesota); Katherine McKittrick (Queen’s University); and Jenny Pickerill (University of Leicester).
While Nik and Jenny settle in to their new roles as editors, Sharad and Vinay are responsible for the Antipode Book Series; Vinay is handling Book Reviews, etc.; and Katherine is taking the lead on the interventions section (and you have an idea for a review or intervention, please get in touch Vinay [gidwa002@umn.edu], Katherine [k.mckittrick@queensu.ca] or Andy in the editorial office [antipode@live.co.uk]).
The new Editorial Collective owe a debt of gratitude to the outgoing editors, Wendy Larner (University of Bristol), Paul Chatterton (University of Leeds), Nik Heynen (University of Georgia) and Rachel Pain (Durham University) who gave sterling service as editors from 2009…
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There are audio recordings of Foucault at various places online. This post attempts to make sense of them. Comments and additions gratefully received.
update 9 Dec 2014 – see this page for a better, reorganised chronological list.
Ubuweb has the following:
‘Discourse and Truth: Parrhesia’, UC Berkeley, October 24-November 21 1983 – these were transcribed as the Fearless Speech book.
‘Truth and Subjectivity’, Howison lectures, UC Berkeley, October 20-21 1980 – not published, but later versions were given on November 17 and 24 at Dartmouth, which were published in The Politics of Truth and in Political Theory. Variants between the Berkeley and Dartmouth versions are noted.
The Culture of the Self, UC Berkeley, April 12 and 19 1983
They then have some radio broadcasts from the 1960s – on Histoire de la folie, Raymond Roussel, and one from 1966 entitled ‘Le corps, lieu d’utopies’ (released on a cd in 1984 and published in the little book ‘Le Corps Utopique – Les Hétérotopies’).
There is also ’11 Conferences’ – which they claim is from 1980, but they are actually a radio piece from December 1966 also on the cd and in Le Corps Utopique – Les Hétérotopies, a variant of the second half of the ‘Of Other Spaces’ piece (more details on all this here).
The Berkeley Audio Archive has the 1980 Howison lectures, the 1983 Discourse and Truth ones, but also some seminars and discussions with Paul Rabinow. They don’t have The Culture of the Self ones linked. (btw, Alain Beaulieu has a useful account of material archived in Berkeley, both paper and audio, in Foucault Studies.)
Open Culture links to a number of these audio recordings, and also to a Youtube clip of Foucault discussing his work on the prison, from 1983 (further info on this unknown).
The Berkeley page also links to a number of audio recordings of Collège de France courses – Il faut défendre la société,
1976; Sécurité, territoire, population, 1978; Naissance de la biopolitique, 1979; Gouvernement de soi et des autres, 1983 and Courage de la vérité, 1984. The Beaulieu article suggests they also have the 1979-80 course, De gouvernment des vivants on tape in the archive.
There is a lot catalogued at the IMEC site – archives sonaires. and INA has a recording of Jacques Chancel interviewing Foucault in 1975.
There is also the Foucault-Chomsky debate, Badiou interviewing Foucault, Foucault discussing Bachelard and various other pieces, some subtitled, on Youtube. [Thanks to Philippe Theophanidis @aphelis for suggesting this one on the Archaeology of Knowledge.] This one (included in Mal Faire, Dire Vrai) is especially good:
[Clare O’Farrell linked to this one Michel Foucault : la justice et la police (video 1977)]
Any more out there?
Call for papers for some interesting AAG 2014 sessions.
Elizabeth Johnson, Harlan Morehouse and myself are putting together some sessions at the 2014 AAG around the relationship between Geophilosophy and Geography, and particularly what we are calling the Geo-Social.
Please circulate the below CFP to anyone you think may be interested.
Many thanks
Geophilosophy and the Geo-Social
AAG 2014
Call for Panels/Papers
Elizabeth Johnson,
Harlan Morehouse, University of Minnesota
Rory Rowan, Wageningen University
There is a growing consensus that in the 21st century the planet is no longer the concern of geologists and climate scientists alone, but that philosophical and social thought must also increasingly engage with planetary concerns. Emergent literatures across the social sciences and humanities are struggling to generate new conceptual frameworks and research strategies to adequately account for the complex knots that bind social, geological, biological and technological forces together, as well as the catastrophic potentials that reside within them (see, for example: Braun and Whatmore…
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Call for proposals for a new book series with Rowman International.
New Heidegger Research publishes work by, about, and provoked by Martin Heidegger. The goal of the series is to promote informed and critical dialogue that breaks new philosophical ground by taking into account the full range of Heidegger’s thought as well as the enduring questions raised by his work. To this end, the series includes English translations of newly available and untranslated texts by Heidegger himself, as well as monographs and anthologies that come to grips with Heidegger’s thought or draw inspiration from it. While insisting on rigorous textual scholarship, the series will give pride of place to work that does not limit itself to explaining Heidegger, but moves Heideggerian questions in new directions and opens new lines of research in dialogue with Heidegger’s thought. As Heidegger wrote in his preface to his collected writings, “The point is to awaken the confrontation about the question concerning the topic of thinking.” New Heidegger Research takes up this challenge.
We welcome proposals in the following categories:
Translations: We invite proposals for accurate, idiomatic, and scholarly English editions of significant texts by Heidegger that are not yet available in translation, including volumes of correspondence.
Monographs: New Heidegger Research welcomes single-author books that are largely concerned with texts by Heidegger published in recent years, that take innovative approaches to Heidegger and ask new questions about his thought, or that draw on his philosophy (either positively or negatively) in addressing new areas of inquiry.
Anthologies: Collections of essays on certain texts by Heidegger or certain issues regarding his work are appropriate for the series, as long as the proposed volumes break some new ground.
Suitable topics for monographs and anthologies include:
• Original work in ontology, epistemology, philosophy of history, philosophy of art, political philosophy, theology, or other fields that demonstrates up-to-date knowledge of Heidegger’s thought and critically engages with it
• Heideggerian or anti-Heideggerian analyses of contemporary issues, such as technology, the information age, sustainability and the environment, bioethics, terrorism, contemporary capitalism, Islamism, and other topics in religion and theology
• Heidegger’s relationship to other intellectuals and philosophers, especially as revealed in recent private writings and correspondence
• Heidegger’s private writings: their meaning, style, and significance for us
• Heidegger’s relevance to and reception in China, Japan, India, the Islamic world, Africa, and Latin America, as well as other emerging domains of Heidegger study
• Studies of Heidegger’s politics that take fresh approaches and are well-informed by the existing primary and secondary literature
Inquiries: E-mail a current CV and a book proposal to Richard Polt (polt@xavier.edu) and Gregory Fried (gfried@suffolk.edu). The proposal should describe the book, summarize its contents, explain how it fits the series, compare it to similar books in the field, and include a writing sample of approximately 20 pages. The editors are committed to the prompt review of all proposals.
Website on rhythmanalysis and its uses – thanks to Tahereh Af for the link.
Wired has some very interesting images of city plans that were never put into practice. Thanks to Ben Rosamond for the link.
A powerful piece on the hunger strikes in Californian prisons – the first post in a planned open site forum on prisons today.
