Monthly Archives: June 2021

Lauren Berlant (1957-2021) – tributes from University of Chicago, Duke University Press and Critical Inquiry (with open access papers)

Posted on June 30, 2021 by stuartelden

The news of the sad death of Lauren Berlant has been all over social media, with many heartfelt tributes to the impact of their work. I won’t try to link to all of them, but these three are useful. University … Continue reading →

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Rachael Squire, Undersea Geopolitics: Sealab, Science, and the Cold War – Rowman, July 2021

Posted on June 30, 2021 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Rachael Squire, Undersea Geopolitics: Sealab, Science, and the Cold War – Rowman, July 2021 This book furthers academic scholarship in cutting-edge areas of geographical and geopolitical writing by drawing on a series of little-studied undersea…

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Books received – Farge, Todorov, Badir, Ornicar? Benjamin, Olssen, Jones, Rennie, Forest, Ortigues

Posted on June 29, 2021 by stuartelden

Some older books bought second-hand, along with the recent books Arlette Farge, Instants de Vie, Sémir Badir. Magritte et les philosophes, Foucault – Duby – Dumézil – Changeux – Thom, Cinq grands entretiens au Champ Freudien, the new critical edition of … Continue reading →

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Camille Robcis, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France – University of Chicago Press, May 2021 and discussion

Posted on June 29, 2021 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Camille Robcis, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France – University of Chicago Press, May 2021 There is a discussion of the book here. From 1940 to 1945, forty thousand patients died in…

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Rebecca Bryant and Madeleine Reeves (eds.), The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty: Political Imagination beyond the State – Cornell University Press, June 2021

Posted on June 28, 2021 by stuartelden

Rebecca Bryant and Madeleine Reeves (eds.), The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty: Political Imagination beyond the State – Cornell University Press, June 2021 Around the world, border walls and nationalisms are on the rise as people express the desire to “take … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Côté jardin, Paroles (2021)

Posted on June 28, 2021 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Un ouvrage dédié au philosophe Michel Foucault, La Nouvelle République, 14/05/2021 See also this site Publisher’s site Book brochure L’association Le jardin de Michel Foucault à Vendeuvre-du-Poitou vient de publier en avril 2021 un livre…

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William S. Lewis, Dialectical Method: Henri Lefebvre’s Philosophy of Science – Verso blog

Posted on June 28, 2021 by stuartelden

William S. Lewis, Dialectical Method: Henri Lefebvre’s Philosophy of Science at the Verso books blog. The Marxist philosopher and social scientist Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) authored over 60 books. It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that some of these are less well-known … Continue reading →

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Gérard Fromanger (1939-2021)

Posted on June 28, 2021 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Portrait de Michel Foucault, Gérard Fromanger Gérard Fromanger, couleurs de gloire, Libération, par Clémentine Mercier, publié le 18 juin 2021 Le peintre figuratif, acteur de Mai 68, proche de Gilles Deleuze et Michel Foucault, est…

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Foucault Studies 30 now published – all open access

Posted on June 18, 2021 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies 30 now published – all open access Three articles, one review essay and a lot of reviews, including one of my Canguilhem book and Samuel Talcott’s Georges Canguilhem and the Problem of Error: Resistance: An Arendtian Reading of … Continue reading →

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Alison Downham Moore on ‘Foucault’s 1960s Lectures on Sexuality’ – video abstract for our review essay in Theory, Culture and Society

Posted on June 18, 2021 by stuartelden

Alison Downham Moore on ‘Foucault’s 1960s Lectures on Sexuality’ – video abstract for Alison Downham Moore and Stuart Elden, review essay on ‘Foucault’s 1960s lectures on sexuality‘, Theory, Culture & Society (open access) This essay is part of the special … Continue reading →

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