Update on the Heidegger situation

As we noted here on foucaultblog last week, The Chronicle of Higher Education ran a slash and run piece by a guy called Carlin Romano on Heidegger. Romano’s stated goal was to ridicule and mock Heidegger:
How many scholarly stakes in the heart will we need before Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), still regarded by some as Germany’s [...]

Chronicle of Higher Ed: Heil Heidegger!

The Chronicle of Higher Education last week had a popular, even sensationalist story entitled Heil Heidegger! by a guy called Carlin Romano, whose main aim seems to be to make fun of Heidegger as a strategy of undermining his influence. A flavor:
How many scholarly stakes in the heart will we need before Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), [...]

GLBT History Month 2009

October is GLBT History Month and Foucault has been chosen as an “icon” (what would he make of that–pride? modesty?).
Anyway they provide a short video, a bio, some recommended books about him (tho not Clare O’Farrell’s tut-tut, tho they do link to her website) and some downloads.

Goofy cover

Don’t think I’ll be buying this (review here) but love the goofy cover:

Roman Polanski, Foucault and sex

I knew as soon as Polanski was arrested in Switzerland over the weekend that it wouldn’t be long before people started citing Foucault on the matter. Sure enough:
Michel Foucault, the renowned sociologist/philosopher was a proponent of sex berween adults and children as “part of a loving relationship” so you might not be too far off [...]

Heidegger’s birthday

Martin Heidegger’s birthday today. You may or may not want to mark it by reading something by him.

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, [...]

Foucault and teabaggers

Foucault and teabaggers?
Here’s someone who can make the link.
…another mechanism is at work in this comparison, a mechanism that is not on the minds of the GOP’s fevered foot soldiers but is certainly on the minds of the party’s intelligentsia. The comparison has its roots in a group of German economists who, after World War [...]

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 [...]

Foucault as fictional character

MTL: What did the Michel Foucault character represent for you? Hope? An example? A dream?
AT: The man who worked for the “Salvation Army” in Geneva in the third part of the book looked exactly like French philosopher Michel Foucault. I have always been fascinated by Foucault. Not only intellectually but also physically. When I was [...]