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Monthly Archives: May 2007

An Alternative to EndNote

Thursday, May 31, 2007

In addition to moving away from Word and to Mellel (which after about five days of use, I’m quite happy with, even if there is a bit of a learning curve), I’m also moving away from EndNote to Bookends. I purchased a copy of EndNote a long time ago and found it to be rather [...]

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Another Round: Gordon vs. Scull on Foucault

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Colin Gordon has been kind enough to let Jeremy Crampton at FoucaultBlog post a copy of a letter that the Times Literary Supplement declined to publish. While the Gordon/Scull battle over Foucault has been a hot topic in the blogosphere, this letter has not, to my knowledge, been commented on yet. Scull questions whether many [...]

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“Complications” by Claude Lefort

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Columbia University Press is pleased to announce the publication of Complications: Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy, by noted French political theorist Claude Lefort (Cloth, 237 pp., $35.00) Praise for Complications: “The so-called triumph of capitalism that accompanied the real collapse of communism in 1989 has led Americans to ‘bury communism’—and forget it. But in [...]

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More

Monday, May 21, 2007

Continuing the thread from yesterday, the point of my post wasn’t so much to brag about the speed at which I’m moving through my programme relative to the rest of the cohort. Nothing could be less interesting – that each person moves through their programme at their own pace is certainly a vulgar truism, but [...]

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Left Behind

Sunday, May 20, 2007

With a couple exceptions, I’m not particularly close with anyone in my cohort at York or its equivalent at Carleton. Most of the people I talk to were beginning their PhD when I was beginning my M.A. or, in the case of one of them, beginning his PhD when I was in fourth year. They’re [...]

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Mary Douglas (1921-2007)

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Mary Douglas (1921-2007)

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CFP: Crime, Law and Regulation

Friday, May 11, 2007

Centre of Criminology Graduate Student Association CALL FOR PAPERS Crime, Law and Regulation: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference October 25-26, 2007, University of Toronto

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CFP: The Politics of Populations

Friday, May 11, 2007

CFP/Edited Collection The Politics of Populations David Karjanen and Courtney Helgoe, editors.

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In-dividual

Friday, May 11, 2007

I’ll return to Jeremy’s question about Foucault’s contribution to political theory and dividing practices in another post a bit later. For now, a short comment on the theme of division. It’s long been noted that liberal political theory is political  in name only, being primarily characterized by extensive de-politicalization. Some locate it the processes of [...]

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Divisions and Decisions

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

At risk of becoming a Jodi Dean metablog, a short comment on her post about a post made by Joseph Kugelmass. (How meta.) I should preface by saying I didn’t follow Joseph’s post all that closely – the comments went in what I found to be a rather uninteresting direction. My comment isn’t so much [...]

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