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Stuart Elden, ‘Foucault as Translator of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker’ – video abstract and open access article

Posted on December 10, 2020 by stuartelden

Stuart Elden, ‘Foucault as Translator of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker‘ – The video abstract for this open access article is now available: Foucault’s Introduction to a translation of Ludwig Binswanger’s essay ‘Dream and Existence’ was published in late 1954. The … Continue reading →

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Interview with Sara Fregonese on War and the City: Urban Geopolitics in Lebanon (New Texts Out Now)

Posted on December 10, 2020 by stuartelden

Interview with Sara Fregonese on War and the City: Urban Geopolitics in Lebanon at New Texts Out Now Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Sara Fregonese (SF): This book is the result of my doctoral research (2004-2008), to which … Continue reading →

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Rosemary-Claire Collard, Animal Traffic – Duke University Press, Sept 2020 (open access introduction + New Books discussion)

Posted on December 10, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Rosemary-Claire Collard, Animal Traffic: Lively Capital in the Global Exotic Pet Trade – Duke University Press, September 2020. The Introduction is open access here. Update: there is a discussion on the New Books podcast here. Parrots and…

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Francesca Antonini, Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci: Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity – Brill, November 2020 (and Revising Gramsci’s Notebooks now in paper)

Posted on December 9, 2020 by stuartelden

Francesca Antonini, Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci: Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity – Brill, November 2020 In Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci, Francesca Antonini offers a fresh insight into Antonio Gramsci’s thought. Building on the achievements of recent Gramscian scholarship, … Continue reading →

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The Telos Press Podcast: Mark G. E. Kelly on Michel Foucault and the Politics of Language Today (2020)

Posted on December 5, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
The Telos Press Podcast: Mark G. E. Kelly on Michel Foucault and the Politics of Language Today, December 1, 2020 In today’s episode of the Telos Press Podcast, Camelia Raghinaru talks with Mark G. E.…

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Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Wilcken, Mill, Rancière, Badiou, Salmon, Sirinelli

Posted on December 4, 2020 by stuartelden

Some books bought recently for the Foucault work, related projects and J.S. Mill for teaching. I’m teaching the history of political thought again this year, and while I have most of the texts we’re using, didn’t have Mill’s Considerations on … Continue reading →

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It was fifty years ago today… Michel Foucault’s inaugural lecture at the Collège de France, 2 December 1970

Posted on December 2, 2020 by stuartelden

On 2 December 1970, Michel Foucault delivered his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France. He was 44 years old. My thanks to Marcelo Hoffman for alerting me to this anniversary. Had this not been such a crazy term, it … Continue reading →

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Lars Spuybroek, Grace and Gravity: Architectures of the Figure – Bloomsbury, November 2020

Posted on December 2, 2020 by stuartelden

Lars Spuybroek, Grace and Gravity: Architectures of the Figure – Bloomsbury, November 2020 How do we live well? The first sentence of Grace and Gravity raises the fundamental question that constantly occupies our minds-and of all those who lived before us. … Continue reading →

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Access to pdfs of my work – on the blog, institutional repositories, ResearchGate and by contacting me

Posted on December 2, 2020 by stuartelden

A reminder that on my blog I share a lot of my work. There are separate pages for articles and chapters, some books, interviews, audio and video, and reading lists. Some pre-prints of forthcoming pieces are here. Also see Google Books; and Durham Research Online and Warwick Research Access Portal (WRAP) which have preprints … Continue reading →

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Special issue of Coils of the Serpent on Deleuze’s essay on Control Societies (open access)

Posted on December 2, 2020 by stuartelden

Coils of the Serpent has a special issue on Deleuze’s essay on Control Societies. All papers are open access. Papers from Jason Read, Patricia Ticinto Clough, Benjamin Noys and others. Coils of the Serpent is a scholarly journal dedicated to the … Continue reading →

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