H/T Progressive Geographies. TCS (who co-sponsored the event) has the full Youtube playlist of plenaries by Jeff Malpas, Stuart Elden, Maria Margaroni, Bernard Stiegler, Achille Mbembe, beginning with a discussion between Mbembe and Stiegler.
Derrida’s Theory and Practice lectures reviewed at NDPR
by Edward Baring here.
Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties by Richard Polt reviewed in NDPR
By Thomas Sheehan here.
Nihilism and Technology by Nolen Gertz reviewed at NDPR
Len Lawlor’s From Violence to Speaking Out: Apocalypse and Expression in Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze reviewed in NDPR
by my colleague Jeff Bell here.
Deleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative by Vernon Cisney reviewed at NDPR
Matthias Fritsch, Philippe Lynes and David Wood (eds), Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy, is reviewed
by Rick Elmore here. The book is an excellent collection, one where each links up well with the other chapters to build an overall argument.
Foucault’s Inaugural lecture at the Collège de France, L’ordre du discours – comparison of the two different versions | Progressive Geographies
Stuart Elden compares the two extant versions here.
Sam Talcott’s Book on Canguilhem is now out
Don’t read the publisher’s blurb (“fills a gap in the market”–the worst reason to buy a book, which means it just fills a gap in your bookcase forever) but the blurbs from the referees. With Stuart Elden’s book also out , this is the summer when Canguilhem finally gets some overdue love in English. (He was a major influence on Foucault and Derrida, among others, but of course a force in his own right.)
The 2019 Holberg Lecture by Laureate Paul Gilroy
is available as text and video (scroll down) here. An important text on race, ecology, and the future of the human.
