Author Archives: stuartelden

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

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 →

Posted in Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

On the Abolition of the Geography Department

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…

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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

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…

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Beginning work on ‘The Archaeology of Foucault’

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 →

Posted in Foucault's Last Decade, Foucault: The Birth of Power, Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

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

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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

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…

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Adam Kotsko, Agamben’s Philosophical Trajectory – Edinburgh University Press, September 2020

Adam Kotsko, Agamben’s Philosophical Trajectory – Edinburgh University Press, September 2020 Good to see this book nearly out – a major study by the key translator of Agamben into English. Adam has a great story about the project – Academic … Continue reading →

Posted in Giorgio Agamben, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Claude Lévi-Strauss, Wild Thought – a new translation of La pensée sauvage – University of Chicago Press, February 2021 (now published)

Claude Lévi-Strauss, Wild Thought – a new translation of La pensée sauvage – translated by Jeffrey Mehlman and John Leavitt, University of Chicago Press, December 2020 [update: now listed as February 2021] Perhaps the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude … Continue reading →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Books received – University of Minnesota Press, Sartre, Dumézil, Koyré

A mixed pile of books, mostly from University of Minnesota Press in recompense for some review work, along with some second-hand French books.

Posted in Georges Bataille, Georges Dumézil, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | 1 Comment