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International Symposium Assemblage Thinking: Theory, Analysis, Practice And Governance Press Release

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Keith Harris

I was fortunate to spend last weekend in Mytilene, Greece (Lesbos) for this symposium on assemblage thinking. It was an interesting experience for many reasons, the foremost of which is that I do not not directly engage with much of … Continue reading →

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Neil Brenner (ed.) Implosions/Explosions – forthcoming

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Keith Harris

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Jovis Verlag have a page up for Neil Brenner’s collection, Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization. In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in…

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Political Affect

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Keith Harris

Over at becoming poor (our UW-based reading group) & nomad scholarship (our shared blog with the outside world, which began as a collaboration with one of Eugene Holland’s seminars at OSU) we are beginning to ramp up for another quarter … Continue reading →

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John Protevi, Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the Sciences – reviewed by Todd May

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Keith Harris

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
John Protevi’s Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the Sciences is reviewed by Todd May at NDPR.

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Incorporeal transformations 1

Posted on August 23, 2013 by Keith Harris

Incorporeal transformations Plateau 4: November 20, 1923 – Postulates of Linguistics I. “Language is Informational and Communicational” Start with collective assemblages of enunciation (CAE): There is no individual enunciation, nor is there a subject of enunciation (79). “The social character … Continue reading →

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Protevi on Foucault’s method 5 (+ neolib)

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Keith Harris

Last installment; get Protevi’s essay here. Neoliberalism and the art of governing Pastoral power – first individualizing practices (~grid he used for human sciences: discipline, STP, 128) Governmentality: move “outside” (beneath?) the state administrative/absolute state’s raison d’Etat, which is nascent … Continue reading →

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Protevi on Foucault’s method 4

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Keith Harris

Existence and possibility To conclude his discussion of F’s methodology, P turns to “two fascinating passages which display his nuanced position in which a grid of intelligibility reveals the interactive realist constitution of objects of a dispositif.” 1)    F’s investigation … Continue reading →

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Protevi on Foucault’s method 3

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Keith Harris

Avoiding a circular ontology of the state If one has state-centered politics, one needs a normative standard by which to judge state actions. Though F does not have state-centered politics, he can still deal with the state. P says it … Continue reading →

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Protevi on Foucault’s method 2

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Keith Harris

F’s Differential Methodology Neolib is a novel mode of the art of governing (new mode of social power) Needs shift in grid from war to governmentality Preliminary distinctions of political rationality Jurdical Sovereign Liberal Government Neoliberal Government Subj of right … Continue reading →

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Protevi on Foucault’s method 1

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Keith Harris

I’m currently trying to get a grasp on the relations between Foucault’s and Deleuze and Guattari’s relationships to geography. I have found the opening section of John Protevi’s “What does Foucault think is new about neoliberalism?” to be rather helpful … Continue reading →

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