Monthly Archives: March 2018

Hayden White (1928-2018)

Posted on March 17, 2018 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Essay on the death of Hayden White Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed, March 9, 2018. The author of Metahistory, one of the most influential books in the humanities over the past four decades, died Monday.…

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LSE Impact Blog – “Six academic writing habits that will boost productivity” (plus other links)

Posted on March 11, 2018 by stuartelden

LSE Impact Blog – “Six academic writing habits that will boost productivity” I’m not sure by the notion of ‘productivity’, but there is some good advice here. Here are the headlines: They “time-block” their writing in advance They set themselves … Continue reading →

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Foucault: The Birth of Power reviewed by Audrey Borowski in Politics, Religion & Ideology

Posted on March 11, 2018 by stuartelden

My 2017 book Foucault: The Birth of Power is generously reviewed by Audrey Borowski in Politics, Religion & Ideology (requires subscription). Links to other reviews and discussions of this book, and its companion Foucault’s Last Decade are archived here.  

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Helena Sheehan and Sheamus Sweeney, The Wire and the World

Posted on March 11, 2018 by stuartelden

Helena Sheehan and Sheamus Sweeney, The Wire and the World Very interesting piece in Jacobin about the TV series, ten years after the final episode. Contains spoilers, of course, if you’ve not yet got through all the seasons…

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“Up in smoke: should an author’s dying wishes be obeyed?” – The Guardian

Posted on March 11, 2018 by stuartelden

Piece in The Guardian – Up in smoke: should an author’s dying wishes be obeyed? Includes some discussion of Foucault, including a link to their recent piece about History of Sexuality volume IV being published. But the main purpose is to discuss a … Continue reading →

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Books received – Dumézil, Canguilhem, Nail, Irrera & Vaccaro, Villacañas & Castro, Foucault, Kotowicz, Braunstein et al, Bleiker

Posted on March 9, 2018 by stuartelden

A pile of recently received books – Georges Dumézil, Entretiens avec Didier Eribon; Georges Canguilhem, Études d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences; Thomas Nail, Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion; Orazio Irrera & Salvo Vaccaro, La pensée politique de Foucault, … Continue reading →

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Ben Clift, The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis – now out with OUP

Posted on March 9, 2018 by stuartelden

A new book by friend and Warwick colleague Ben Clift – The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis – is now out with OUP. This book explores the IMF’s role within the … Continue reading →

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Foucault in Hamburg – article in German by Rainer Nicolaysen (open access)

Posted on March 9, 2018 by stuartelden

Not much is known about Foucault’s time in Hamburg in 1959-60, except that he was working on his translation of Kant’s Anthropology at this time. The preface to History of Madness was also written there. A new piece in German … Continue reading →

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Critical Planning issue with tributes to Jacqueline Leavitt and Ed Soja (open access)

Posted on March 9, 2018 by stuartelden

Critical Planning – new issue with tributes to Jacqueline Leavitt and Ed Soja, and a number of stand-alone pieces (open access). Thanks to Kenton Card for the link.

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The Critical Zone of Science and Politics: An Interview with Bruno Latour in LARB

Posted on March 2, 2018 by stuartelden

The Critical Zone of Science and Politics: An Interview with Bruno Latour in Los Angeles Review of Books

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