Author Archives: stuartelden

Books received – Merleau-Ponty, Lecourt, Foucault, Canguilhem, Moore

Posted on February 22, 2017 by stuartelden

Some books picked up in Paris and London – mainly for the early Foucault work, but also Margaret Moore’s A Political Theory of Territory, just out from OUP.

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Apocalypse, Now! Peter Sloterdijk & Bernard Stiegler on the Anthropocene

Posted on February 22, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
“We would finally like to ask here, most likely in deviation from Stiegler’s own intentions, whether it would be possible to conceive of such an internation as an enabling strategy for what Antonio Negri and…

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Review of Robert E. Lerner, Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life at Berfrois

Posted on February 21, 2017 by stuartelden

Update September 2025: the Berfrois site is now closed and the archive has been removed. My piece can now be found here. My review of Robert E. Lerner, Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life has just appeared at Berfrois. Beyond the ranks … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault update 4: Merleau-Ponty, Canguilhem, a week in the archive and a book contract…

Posted on February 21, 2017 by stuartelden

The past few weeks have felt like I am running a few different research careers in parallel, with ongoing things around Lefebvre, Shakespeare and the terrain work. This has meant dealing with publishers, grant bodies, and writing projects, as well … Continue reading →

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Visiting scholar, ACCESS Europe, University of Amsterdam

Posted on February 21, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ll be spending several weeks between April and June 2017 as a visiting scholar at ACCESS Europe at the University of Amsterdam. ACCESS is the Amsterdam Centre for Contemporary European Studies. While there I will be giving a public lecture, leading a PhD reading seminar on … Continue reading →

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Critique n° 835 : Michel Foucault – including a previously unpublished lecture by Foucault

Posted on February 20, 2017 by stuartelden

Critique n° 835 is a theme issue entitled ‘Michel Foucault. Un très beau feu d’artifice‘. Perhaps the key piece of interest is a previously unpublished lecture by Foucault, ‘La littérature et la folie’, edited from the manuscript at the Bibliothèque … Continue reading →

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The Revolutionary Imperative: Engaging the Work of Neil Smith

Posted on February 20, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on multipliciudades:
Antipode has published a special supplement dedicated to the late Neil Smith, available open access from the journal’s parallel site and also in paperback edition. In line with Smith’s broad interests the materials explore a wide…

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10 Talking Points towards a general theory of Trump – Progress in Political Economy

Posted on February 20, 2017 by stuartelden

10 Talking Points towards a general theory of Trump – Progress in Political Economy On Monday 6 February 2017, the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney convened a postgraduate workshop with Paul Mason – British journalist, broadcaster, and author of Postcapitalism: … Continue reading →

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Christopher Watkins on research strategies and writing

Posted on February 20, 2017 by stuartelden

From Christopher Watkins – a series of useful posts on research strategies and writing, designed for undergraduate, Masters and PhD students, but likely to be of interest beyond that too. In this series I share some of the research hacks … Continue reading →

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Complicités et ambivalences de la psychiatrie, Münsterlingen et le carnaval des fous de 1954 (2017)

Posted on February 15, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Elisabetta Basso, Complicités et ambivalences de la psychiatrie, Münsterlingen et le carnaval des fous de 1954, Médecine/Sciences (Paris), Volume 33, Number 1, Janvier 2017 DOI: 10.1051/medsci/20173301019 Complicities and ambivalences of psychiatry: Münsterlingen and the 1954…

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