Archive for September, 2007
The New York Times publishes an opinion article from a reporter for Newsweek who just authored a book on luxury:
“Most people think that buying an imitation handbag or wallet is harmless, a victimless crime. But the counterfeiting rackets are run by crime syndicates that also deal in narcotics, weapons, child prostitution, human trafficking and terrorism. [...]
A follow-up on Doing Figures and One Darkest Page: this past Thursday another person jumped out of the window (Boulevard de la Villette, in Paris) while trying to escape from Sarkozy’s statistics. See “Le saut dans le désespoir des sans-papiers traqués”, Libération, September 21 2007.
An “exploratory mission” (with quotation marks and “(sic)” in this week’s edition of the satirical newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné) on the future of the nuclear sector in France (i.e. on the privatization of Areva) has been entrusted to HSBC and McKinsey. The consultancy mission is not likely to be that “exploratory” because, as pointed out [...]
Some English-speaking (and non-French-reading) academics are looking forward to the release of the translation of Michel Foucault’s 1978-1979 lectures at the Collège de France. Naissance de la Biopolitique was actually published in French only in 2004: a careful transcription and compilation of the tape-recorded lectures on neoliberal governmentality and neoclassical economics that came out the [...]
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