Progressive Geographies

Workshop “Foucault and the critique of our present: Reworking the Foucauldian tool-box” Part 2

organized at Goldsmiths College (London) by Yari Lanci, Amedeo Policante and Martina Tazzioli,
with the support of the Department of Politics and of mf / materiali foucaultiani

Thursday, November 22, 5-7 pm
Richard Hoggart Building (RHB) 2107
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London, SE14 6NW

Miguel de Beistegui (University of Warwick)
“Desire within and beyond biopolitics”
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The title is Bells and Whistles: More Speculative Realism, and you can expect to see it out towards the fall of 2013. It will be of the same style as Towards Speculative Realism, with a collection of unpublished essays and lectures prefaced by italicized descriptions of the conditions under which they were written (a feature that proved especially popular with younger readers).

It will include, among other things, my keynote lecture from the Transmediale festival in Berlin last February, the talk I gave at the New School in September 2011 on the 4 basic objections that are made to OOO, along with other talks from Goldsmiths, Brazil, and Russia.

It will also contain an English version of my defense of OOO against William James’ radical empiricism (commissioned by Kronos and published so far only in Polish translation). A few other essays will be written to order just for…

Yesterday, we had a meeting of Faculty Council for the Arts (I have to go as chair of our undergrad studies committee). This poor librarian starts us off with a 15-minute presentation about open access publishing, and it was excellent: all the global justice and other reasons for opting, if one can, for open access. Then she finishes, and this guy lights into her like I haven’t seen. So he goes on and she asks, “Can you tell me what you think is wrong with open access?” And he says, “One word: crud.” And then he says something about it being “pay to publish.” Then our new dean pipes up and said she had “no idea” open access publishing included peer review.

So it was left to me to explain this thing called the internet and how Society and Space does as much open access as possible and how peer…