CFP: “Deleuze: Ethics and Politics”

Rockwell Clancy sends the following message:
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Call for Papers
 
4th Biennial Philosophy and Literature Conference
At
Purdue University
 
“Deleuze: Ethics and Politics”
 
April 9-10, 2010
Purdue University, West Lafayette
 
Deadline for Paper Submission:
January 15, 2010
 
The philosopher Michel Serres once described Gilles Deleuze as “an excellent example of the dynamic movement of free and inventive thinking.” Without [...]

Neil Smith on Foucault and revolution

Seen in Heidelberg, Germany, June 2009
Neil Smith (Uneven Development) has added some new material to his site, including an editorial he did for Environment Planning D: Society and Space in 2007 (pdf version).
Smith’s position is that Foucault is actually useful in thinking about revolution again (ie., since the 1960s). He argues that Foucault’s position on [...]

THE reviews Spaces of Security

Times Higher Ed has a nice review of Security and Insecurity: Geographies of the War on Terror, edited by Alan Ingram and Klaus Dodds, published by Ashgate (our Foucault book publisher).
The reviewer, Simon Reid-Henry, who directs the Centre for Global Security and Development, Queen Mary, University of London, describes it as:
a fascinating cross-section of contemporary [...]

Mayhew on historical geography

Just catching up with one of my favorite journals, Progress in Human Geography. Robert Mayhew, a geographer at Bristol, has a progress report on historical geography in the June issue. He  claims that historical geography today is suffused with Foucault’s influence.
I want to divide recent work in historical geography into three sets of interrelated inquiries, [...]

My new book

Readers of this blog may be interested in my new book, which I am very pleased to say has just been listed on Amazon. It is called simply Mapping, and is part of the Wiley-Blackwell series on Critical Geographies. This series is aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate (or post-graduate) students, and provides book-length discussions [...]

New Google Earth controversy in Japan similar to Bowman Expeditions controversy

In this computer screen image taken from the Google Earth software, a feudal map of a village in central Japan from hundreds of years ago, superimposed on a modern street map, is shown. The village is clearly labeled “eta,” an old word for Japan’s outclass of untouchables known as “burakumin.” The word literally means “filthy [...]

J.G. Ballard dies

I learned this morning that the great English writer J.G. Ballard has died. He was 78.
Ballard has no discernible Foucauldian connections that I can think of, instead I mark his passing in this space because I imagine that many readers here would know or appreciate Ballard’s work.
Ballard always seemed to me an English writer rather [...]

New Book: Space in theory

New book published by Rodopi which I think is a Dutch publisher:
WEST-PAVLOV, Russell, Space in Theory. Kristeva, Foucault, Deleuze, Amsterdam / New York, Rodopi (Spatial Practices: An Interdisciplinary Series in Cultural History, Geography and Literature), 2009, 275 p.
ISBN 978-90-420-2545-5
Space in Theory: Kristeva, Foucault, Deleuze seeks to give a detailed but succinct overview of [...]

Foucault papers at the AAG

This year’s Association of American Geographers conference is being held in Las Vegas. It opens today, and although I can’t be there until late Monday night due to teaching obligations, I thought I would provide the abstracts of papers that focus on Foucault or Foucauldian themes.
There are also numerous papers on government, governmentality, biopolitics, etc., [...]

Experimental geography

I recently purchased the book Experimental Geography, edited by Nato Thompson and Independent Curators International (ICI). It features essays by the geographer Trevor Paglen, and includes the work of several emerging “map artists” such as kanarinka, Spurse, and Lize Mogel.
(It can usefully be read in parallel with Mogel and Bhagat’s An Atlas of Radical Cartography.)
Now [...]