Carceral notebooks

I missed this previously:
Carceral Notebooks
Volume 4, 2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction. Bernard Harcourt
Discipline, Security, and Beyond: A Brief Introduction.
Andrew Dilts and Bernard Harcourt
D’une configuration disciplinaire à l’autre? Laurent Bonelli
Des classes à la population ?
Formules de gouvernement et détention Fabienne Brion
Masques de Foucault. Guy Casadamont
The Post-Disciplinary Prison. Gilles Chantraine
Michel Foucault Meets Gary Becker: [...]

AAG 2010 sessions on territory and cartography

I’ve mounted a website and blog for our sessions on Territory and Cartography at next year’s Association of American Geographers (AAG) conference. We have three sessions total and some of the papers have a definite Foucaultian approach, although this was not a prerequisite of the cfp.
Anyway, please jump over to the blog and leave comments [...]

New book: Stuart Elden Terror and Territory

Stuart has a new book out: Terror and Territory, The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty. From the publisher:
A timely analysis of the contemporary state of territory
Today’s global politics demands a new look at the concept of territory. From so-called deterritorialized terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda to U.S.-led overthrows of existing regimes in the Middle East, the [...]

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, [...]

New Protevi notes; cfp Philosophy of Life

Two quick items via the Continental Philosophy blog:
1. John Protevi is posting his course notes on Security, Territory, Population
2. A call for papers has been issued for a conference on the philosophy of life, including “life, power and politics (Foucault and Agamben).”
Both via CP.

CFP: Paul and Foucault

A call for papers on the topic of St. Paul and Foucault has been announced by the Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory.

Call for Papers – Special Edition of The Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory
‘Foucault and Saint Paul’
The French philosopher Michel Foucault has been cited in relation to Saint Paul from a [...]

CFP: Securing the future: the role of space in impending crises

CFP: Securing the future: the role of space in impending crises. AAG Las Vegas, March 22-7, 2009
Please send abstracts to Bethan Evans (b.evans@mmu.ac.uk) by Friday 10th
October (deadline for registration with the AAG is 16th October)
There has been a noticeable shift in public policy across a range of sectors
from policy focussed on individual (or corporate) [...]

Governmentality and UFOs?

Scott McLemee:
Lest anyone think this is the silly season, we turn with relief to the August issue of the journal Political Theory, where a major article finally addresses an issue too long ignored by candidates and scholars alike. “If academics’ first responsibility is to tell the truth,” write two political scientists, “then the truth is [...]

Full-text Foucaults?

I’ve noticed a trend recently of publishing full-text versions of various Foucault-related books online. Nowadays anyone with a scanner and Acrobat can upload a searchable OCR full-text pdf of say Security, Territory, Population (which floated around the internet last year) or today’s example, Foucault by Gilles Deleuze.
I’m in two minds about these. On the one [...]