Author Archives: stuartelden

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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Miguel de Beistegui, Lacan: A Genealogy – Bloomsbury, May 2021

Posted on November 30, 2020 by stuartelden

Miguel de Beistegui, Lacan: A Genealogy – Bloomsbury, May 2021 Lacan: A Genealogy provides a genealogical account of Lacan’s work as a whole, from his early writings on paranoid psychosis to his later work on the real and surplus enjoyment.  Beistegui … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Sexuality: The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand and 1969 Vincennes Lectures – Columbia University Press, August 2021

Posted on November 30, 2020 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Sexuality: The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand and 1969 Vincennes Lectures – Columbia University Press, August 2021 Edited by Claude-Olivier Doron, foreword by Bernard E. Harcourt, translated by Graham Burchell. Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality—the first volume of which was published … Continue reading →

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Rosimeri de Oliveira Dias and Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues (eds.), Ordens do discurso: comentários marginais à aula de Michel Foucault – November 2020

Posted on November 26, 2020 by stuartelden

Rosimeri de Oliveira Dias and Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues (eds.), Ordens do discurso: comentários marginais à aula de Michel Foucault – November 2020 A new Brazilian collection commemorating the 50th anniversary of Foucault’s inaugural lecture at the Collège de … Continue reading →

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Human, All Too Human I (Winter 1874/75–Winter 1877/78) – Stanford University Press, August 2021

Posted on November 26, 2020 by stuartelden

I’ve previously mentioned that the next volume in the Stanford translation of the Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche will be Vol 9 – The Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo / Dionysus … Continue reading →

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Paulina Ochoa Espejo, On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place – Oxford University Press, August 2020 [updated with link to discussion and an open access excerpt]

Posted on November 25, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Paulina Ochoa Espejo, On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place – Oxford University Press, August 2020 When are borders justified? Who has a right to control them? Where should they be drawn? Today people think…

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Peter Salmon’s Top 10 books about great thinkers

Posted on November 25, 2020 by stuartelden

Peter Salmon’s Top 10 books about great thinkers in The Guardian Books about St Augustine, Wittgenstein, André and Simone Weil, Kant, Simone de Beauvoir, Frantz Fanon, Georges Perec, Existentialists, Angela Davis, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Salmon’s own An Event, Perhaps: A … Continue reading →

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