Author Archives: stuartelden

Sami Moisio, Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy – now out with Routledge

Posted on March 20, 2018 by stuartelden

Sami Moisio, Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy – now out with Routledge. Only a very expensive hardback or e-book at this stage, unfortunately. If you buy via Routledge, code FLR40 will give a 20% discount (Flyer – Geopolitics of the … Continue reading →

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Territory Beyond Terra – reflections on the Rowman International blog

Posted on March 20, 2018 by stuartelden

Territory Beyond Terra was published earlier this month. Edited by Kimberley Peters, Philip Steinberg and Elaine Stratford, the book has a series of essays which look at elements, environments and edges to challenge and extend our understanding of territory. There are … Continue reading →

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Review essay of Foucault, Les Aveux de la chair in Theory, Culture and Society (open access)

Posted on March 20, 2018 by stuartelden

My review essay of the fourth volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality, Les aveux de la chair is now available in Theory, Culture and Society. The essay will appear in the annual review of the journal later this year, but this version is … Continue reading →

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Bernard E. Harcourt, “The Barbarism of Alabama’s Botched Execution”

Posted on March 17, 2018 by stuartelden

Bernard E. Harcourt, “The Barbarism of Alabama’s Botched Execution” in The New York Review of Books. A powerful and disturbing piece about the attempted execution of Doyle Lee Hamm earlier this month.

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Hayden White (1928-2018)

Posted on March 17, 2018 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Essay on the death of Hayden White Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed, March 9, 2018. The author of Metahistory, one of the most influential books in the humanities over the past four decades, died Monday.…

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LSE Impact Blog – “Six academic writing habits that will boost productivity” (plus other links)

Posted on March 11, 2018 by stuartelden

LSE Impact Blog – “Six academic writing habits that will boost productivity” I’m not sure by the notion of ‘productivity’, but there is some good advice here. Here are the headlines: They “time-block” their writing in advance They set themselves … Continue reading →

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Foucault: The Birth of Power reviewed by Audrey Borowski in Politics, Religion & Ideology

Posted on March 11, 2018 by stuartelden

My 2017 book Foucault: The Birth of Power is generously reviewed by Audrey Borowski in Politics, Religion & Ideology (requires subscription). Links to other reviews and discussions of this book, and its companion Foucault’s Last Decade are archived here.  

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Helena Sheehan and Sheamus Sweeney, The Wire and the World

Posted on March 11, 2018 by stuartelden

Helena Sheehan and Sheamus Sweeney, The Wire and the World Very interesting piece in Jacobin about the TV series, ten years after the final episode. Contains spoilers, of course, if you’ve not yet got through all the seasons…

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“Up in smoke: should an author’s dying wishes be obeyed?” – The Guardian

Posted on March 11, 2018 by stuartelden

Piece in The Guardian – Up in smoke: should an author’s dying wishes be obeyed? Includes some discussion of Foucault, including a link to their recent piece about History of Sexuality volume IV being published. But the main purpose is to discuss a … Continue reading →

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Books received – Dumézil, Canguilhem, Nail, Irrera & Vaccaro, Villacañas & Castro, Foucault, Kotowicz, Braunstein et al, Bleiker

Posted on March 9, 2018 by stuartelden

A pile of recently received books – Georges Dumézil, Entretiens avec Didier Eribon; Georges Canguilhem, Études d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences; Thomas Nail, Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion; Orazio Irrera & Salvo Vaccaro, La pensée politique de Foucault, … Continue reading →

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