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Foucault: The Birth of Power Update 10 – Chapter Five and a complete first draft

Posted on January 4, 2016 by stuartelden

With Chapters Four and Six drafted, Chapter Five was the only one I didn’t have in a decent form. The first task for this was the section on the Groupe d’Information sur les prisons (GIP). Foucault was actively involved in this … Continue reading →

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Foucault, crime and prisons – on film and online

Posted on January 2, 2016 by stuartelden

I’ve previously shared a list of audio and video recordings of Foucault, and I won’t repeat things here. But there are a few pieces of documentary evidence about Foucault’s work and crime and prisons which are full-length films. The best-known … Continue reading →

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100 years ago today – Antonio Gramsci, ‘I Hate New Year’s Day’

Posted on January 1, 2016 by stuartelden

I shared this a year ago, but since it was 100 years ago today… here is the translation of Antonio Gramsci, ‘I Hate New Year’s Day’, again. This text was first pub­lished in Avanti!, Turin edi­tion, from his col­umn “Sotto la … Continue reading →

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2015 in review – talks, publications and writing, plus links to ‘best-of’ lists

Posted on December 31, 2015 by stuartelden

I began 2015 with the manuscript of a book under the title Foucault’s Last Decade close, I thought, to completion. But it was far too long. In the end, I cut the first two long chapters out, and submitted a book … Continue reading →

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Critical Theory’s books that came out in December

Posted on December 31, 2015 by stuartelden

Most of these are too recent to make my best-of year list, but here’s ten books that came out in December from Critical-Theory.com – Foucault, Bataille, Couture, etc.

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Academic Books of 2015 – my top twenty

Posted on December 31, 2015 by stuartelden

The vast majority of academic reading in 2015 was related to Foucault, with a lot of Shakespeare work along the way. Many of these were published some time ago. These were the twenty books published in 2015 I read and most … Continue reading →

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My favourite music of 2015

Posted on December 30, 2015 by stuartelden

Not an ordered list, but the music I liked most from this year (see also 2014, 2013 and 2012)… Steven Wilson, Hand Cannot Erase The Neal Morse Band, The Great Experiment Lonely Robot, Please Come Home Umphreys McGee, The London Session Goblin Rebirth, Goblin Rebirth  … Continue reading →

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Novels (mainly) read in 2015

Posted on December 30, 2015 by stuartelden

These are the novels or non-fiction I read as a break from work-related reading in 2015. Not as many as previous years, which was mainly due to a slow start. Daniel Coyle and Tyler Hamilton, The Secret Race: Inside the … Continue reading →

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Top ten Society and Space posts of 2015

Posted on December 30, 2015 by stuartelden

Most popular posts on the Society and Space open site in 2015.

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2015 in review

Posted on December 30, 2015 by stuartelden

WordPress.com has prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 400,000 times in 2015. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, … Continue reading →

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