Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
In a fascinating interview about Foucault, ‘The Materiality of a Working Life‘ (open access; original French), Daniel Defert talks about his daily routines, and how these were similar year round: No no, weekends didn’t exist! We would go to see art exhibitions on the Saturday afternoon, certainly, but the very…
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
This was an exceptionally difficult term – probably the hardest I can remember in twenty-five years of working in universities. It was very hard to make any progress on this manuscript – the fourth and final book in this sequence of studies of Foucault’s career and writings, this time looking…
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
On 2 December 1970, Michel Foucault delivered his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France. He was 44 years old. My thanks to Marcelo Hoffman for alerting me to this anniversary. Had this not been such a crazy term, it would have been nice to commemorate this event a bit…
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Stuart Elden, ‘Foucault as Translator of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker‘ – The video abstract for this open access article is now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JGpBkZrd0k Foucault’s Introduction to a translation of Ludwig Binswanger’s essay ‘Dream and Existence’ was published in late 1954. The translation was credited to Jacqueline Verdeaux, with Foucault acknowledged…
Originally posted on affecognitive:
What would it be to re-sculpt the projects of human life and social government without “freedom” or “liberty”? The terms are decidedly overdetermined, rising (unsurprisingly) during the configurations of the nation state and in the wake of the French Revolution (see accompanying Ngrams). The assumptions and calls for freedom after the…
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I’ve mentioned before the project to diigitise Foucault’s reading notes which are now archived at the Bibliothèque national de France. Two interesting pieces report on the project. First, a presentation given at a recent conference which gives an indication of how this will look: Marie-Laure Massot, Jean-Philippe Moreux, Vincent Ventresque,…
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Azucena G. Blanco, Literature and Politics in the Later Foucault – De Gruyter, November 2020. This appears to be currently open access as an e-book. This study proposes a revised interpretation of Foucault’s views on literature. It has been argued that the philosopher’s interest in literature was limited to the…
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Perry Zurn, Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry – University of Minnesota Press, March 2021 Curiosity is political. Who is curious, when, and how reflects the social values and power structures of a given society. In?Curiosity and Power, Perry Zurn explores the political philosophy of curiosity, staking the groundbreaking…
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Adam Kotsko, Agamben’s Philosophical Trajectory – Edinburgh University Press, September 2020 Focuses on Agamben’s intellectual development Offers the first study of the complete Homo Sacer series Takes into account Agamben’s recently-published memoir Addresses the full range of Agamben’s thought on linguistics, poetics, politics and theology Giorgio Agamben has emerged as…
Originally posted on affecognitive:
It’s now been the better part of a year since I finished this book. Our pandemic world makes it extraordinarily difficult for me to accomplish the mundane academic task of producing summary statements of what I’ve read. I offer this belated set of notes on the third part of Laval, Paltrinieri…
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