Author Archives: stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Le Calcul des Langues – Seuil, June 2020 – previously unpublished manuscript, edited by Geoff Bennington and Katie Chenoweth

Posted on July 14, 2020 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Le Calcul des Langues – Seuil, June 2020 News of a previously unpublished manuscript by Derrida, edited by Geoff Bennington and Katie Chenoweth. Texte énigmatique et entièrement inédit, Le Calcul des langues marque la première tentative de Jacques … Continue reading →

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Gilbert Humbert (1928-2020)

Posted on July 13, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Notice nécrologique sur Gilbert Humbert Patrick Négrier Gilbert Humbert, né en 1928, et compagnon de Michel Foucault en 1951, est décédé le 14 mai 2020. Ancien élève d’Olivier Messiaën, il eut une vie composite et…

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Les Cahiers du GRM – theme issue on Pratiques et expériences de l’enquête (open access – papers in English, French and Italian)

Posted on July 13, 2020 by stuartelden

Les Cahiers du GRM – theme issue on Pratiques et expériences de l’enquête – edited by Andrea Cavazzini (open access) Du XIXe siècle à aujourd’hui, l’enquête militante a souvent joué le rôle d’un retour au réel par-delà les paradigmes théoriques et politiques … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 1: Organisation, textual comparisons and a working timeline

Posted on July 13, 2020 by stuartelden

After an initial burst of enthusiasm, I’m already beginning to realise the scale of some of the tasks ahead of me with this book. The final chapter of The Early Foucault discusses the way History of Madness was initially received, … Continue reading →

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Geographers, sociologists, philosophers etc. on covid-19 – list updated

Posted on July 1, 2020 by stuartelden

Geographers, sociologists, philosophers etc. on covid-19 This list continues to be updated, though less frequently than before. Recently added pieces include:- Tim Christiaens and Stijn De Cauwer, The Biopolitics of Immunity in Times of COVID-19: An Interview with Roberto Esposito … Continue reading →

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On the Abolition of the Geography Department

Posted on July 1, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Pop Theory:
I’ve been working on the ‘online pivot‘ a lot just recently, thinking about the challenges of adjusting teaching and learning provision for the forthcoming academic year, starting in September, in the context of an ongoing…

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Michael Maidan, Review of Michel Foucault: Penal Theories and Institutions (2020)

Posted on July 1, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michel Foucault: Penal Theories and Institutions: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1971-1972 Review by Michael Maidan, Phenomenological Reviews, Sunday June 7th, 2020 Open accessPenal Theories and Institutions contains the lectures delivered by Foucault in…

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Beginning work on ‘The Archaeology of Foucault’

Posted on July 1, 2020 by stuartelden

While work on The Early Foucault is just about complete, though stuck until I can get back to Paris, I’m today beginning work on ‘The Archaeology of Foucault’, the fourth and final book in this sequence. It fills in the … Continue reading →

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Alison Mountz, The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago – University of Minnesota Press, 2020

Posted on June 30, 2020 by stuartelden

Alison Mountz, The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago – University of Minnesota Press, 2020 Remote detention centers confine tens of thousands of refugees, asylum seekers, and undocumented immigrants around the world, operating in a legal gray … Continue reading →

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The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot, translated by Matthew Sharpe and Federico Testa, Bloomsbury, May 2020

Posted on June 30, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot, translated by Matthew Sharpe and Federico Testa, Bloomsbury, 2019 This collection of writings from Pierre Hadot (1992-2010) presents, for the first time, previously unreleased and in some cases untranslated…

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