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Clare O’Farrell’s blog on books, TV, films, Michel Foucault, universities etc. etc.

Michel Foucault, Histoire de la folie a l’âge classique. Entretien de Michel Foucault avec Nicole Brice. Enquêtes et commentaires. Diffusion le 31 mai 1961 sur France III National. In Michel Foucault, Entretiens radiophoniques, 1961-1983, Flammarion / VRIN / INA, 2024, pp. 13-16 It seemed to me that madness was a somewhat variable phenomenon in civilisation, …

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I am a big fan of artistic maps, not necessarily applied to actual geographical areas. Perhaps we could call these heterotopian maps. This lovely map which has recently been doing the rounds on twitter and facebook was designed by Gemma Correll for Evernote. Update 5 April 2019 A couple of really good articles on procrastination. …

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To extend on the theme of my earlier post on The Secret of Kells a little. The increasing digitisation of library collections and rare books has drawn attention to the power of the art work in medieval illuminated manuscripts. Often this artwork appears as marginalia, sometimes bearing little relation to the written text. This artwork …

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