Progressive Geographies

New Foucault blog at University of Zurich

Posted on May 7, 2013 by stuartelden

Foucault News on Foucaultblog

A new blog titled Foucaultblog has recently been established at the University of Zurich. Contributions are in German, French and English.

Update September 2025. This blog has been retitled the G+C blog which is the blogging platform of the open access Genealogy + Critique journal. The link to the original blog is from the Wayback Machine

Editorial

The thought and intellectual praxis of Michel Foucault (1926-1984) are a reference of unbroken fascination for a vast number of scholarly, artistic, and political projects. Even now, almost thirty years after his death, new interviews with and lectures by the French philosopher and historian are being published; even now, his work remains neither categorized nor “grasped”; even now, we find that it remains full of surprises; and even now, his texts, therefore, invite new and renewed readings and his thought invites further thought.

Often, however, “Foucault” appears not merely as an unavoidable but…

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Jerusalem light rail

Posted on May 6, 2013 by stuartelden

On Sunday I took a couple of hours to explore the fairly new Jerusalem light rail. It opened in late 2011 and when I was last here in 2009 it was still under construction. I’m staying near Damascus Gate, and there is a station right across the road. There is only one line so far (more are planned) which runs from Mount Herzl in the west to Heil Ha’Avir (Air Force Street) in the north east. The most interesting bit architecturally is Chords bridge just past Central Station, but it has also made Jaffa Road semi-pedestrianized.

Politically it was heavily contested because from Damascus Gate northwards it is built in East Jerusalem, captured by Israel from Jordan in 1967 and annexed since 1980 (the UN has ruled this illegal). It is part of a wider project of road and infrastructure building to unify the city, but it also links a number of Israeli settlements in the east to the historic and cultural centre. In Beit Hanina especially it runs close to the route of the separation wall. Along with so much else here it raises a host of thought-provoking urban-political geographical questions.

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Katie Ledingham reviews Wolfe’s Before the Law

Posted on May 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Cary Wolfe’s Before the Law has been on my to-read list for a little while – review at the Society and Space open site.

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Al Quds University talk details

Posted on May 6, 2013 by stuartelden

The details for my public lecture this week –
Wednesday 8 May 2013, 1.30pm, “The Dimensions of Territory”, Al Quds Bard Honors College building, Al Quds University, Abu Dis Campus.

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AUFS review of Taubes, To Carl Schmitt

Posted on May 6, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned the new translation of Jacob Taubes’s letters to Carl Schmitt before. The book is reviewed here.

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back in Jerusalem

Posted on May 4, 2013 by stuartelden

I’m back in Jerusalem, staying in the historic Jerusalem hotel in the east of the city, only a few minutes walk from Damascus gate. This is the first time I’ve been back since 2009. The reason I’m here is that I’m part of the Open Society Institute’s Academic Fellowship Programme, working with Al Quds Bard Honors College. I met one of the Returning Scholars, Nadim Khoury, when in Istanbul last month, and meet with him and two of his colleagues for dinner tonight in Beit Jala. I’ll be visiting the college and Al Quds University itself over the coming days, including sitting in on classes in urban studies and political theory; giving a lecture on territory and a workshop on publishing; and talking to a number of people about curriculum design, interdisciplinary work; and collaborative projects.