Monthly Archives: January 2016

How (we) Write: an introduction

Posted on January 13, 2016 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Something Other:
Andrew Latimer In Autumn 2015, I read an open-access volume of collected essays by scholars working across a range of fields called How We Write. They reflected on their critical practice in relation to the…

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Society and Space Editorial team changes

Posted on January 12, 2016 by stuartelden

Editorial developments at Society and Space – two new review editors and an entirely new, fascinating and diverse editorial board. The post also announces that Deb Cowen is stepping down as one of the editors – I worked with Deb … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Discours et vérité précédé de La parrêsia (Feb 2016)

Posted on January 12, 2016 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Discours et vérité précédé de La parrêsia will appear with Vrin in February 2016. This is a critical French edition of the English language lectures on parresia delivered at Berkeley in the autumn of 1983, previously published as Fearless … Continue reading →

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Discussion of Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis

Posted on January 11, 2016 by stuartelden

Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies:
Good afternoon, We would like to invite you to a continuation of a series of events that the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona has launched in Virtual Reality for the academic year of…

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Planned Violence Keynote Lecture by Eyal Weizman and Reading from Courttia Newland, University of Warwick, 20 January 2016

Posted on January 11, 2016 by stuartelden

Registration for the final Planned Violence Keynote Lecture by Eyal Weizman and Reading from Courttia Newland, University of Warwick, 20 January 2016, is now open…. Eyal Weizman, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, will deliver … Continue reading →

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Foucault and the Politics of Health – Collaborative research and activism – UCL, 12 Jan 2016, 12.30pm

Posted on January 11, 2016 by stuartelden

Just back from a week’s holiday, with no email or internet. Tomorrow at 1pm (refreshments from 12.30) I’ll be giving a talk entitled “Foucault and the Politics of Health – Collaborative research and activism”, to the Geography Department at University College London. … Continue reading →

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Foucault: The Birth of Power Update 10 – Chapter Five and a complete first draft

Posted on January 4, 2016 by stuartelden

With Chapters Four and Six drafted, Chapter Five was the only one I didn’t have in a decent form. The first task for this was the section on the Groupe d’Information sur les prisons (GIP). Foucault was actively involved in this … Continue reading →

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Foucault, crime and prisons – on film and online

Posted on January 2, 2016 by stuartelden

I’ve previously shared a list of audio and video recordings of Foucault, and I won’t repeat things here. But there are a few pieces of documentary evidence about Foucault’s work and crime and prisons which are full-length films. The best-known … Continue reading →

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100 years ago today – Antonio Gramsci, ‘I Hate New Year’s Day’

Posted on January 1, 2016 by stuartelden

I shared this a year ago, but since it was 100 years ago today… here is the translation of Antonio Gramsci, ‘I Hate New Year’s Day’, again. This text was first pub­lished in Avanti!, Turin edi­tion, from his col­umn “Sotto la … Continue reading →

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