Author Archives: stuartelden

Foucault’s 1982 lectures in Toronto and Kingston – were you there? A request for help

Posted on December 21, 2015 by stuartelden

In June 1982 Foucault gave a sequence of lectures in Toronto. At the end of June he gave a guest lecture at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, adapting one of the Toronto lectures for that audience. These lectures are being prepared … Continue reading →

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CFP: Radicalism in Theory and Practice – Hong Kong, 6-8 December 2016

Posted on December 21, 2015 by stuartelden

CFP: Radicalism in Theory and Practice – Hong Kong, 6-8 December 2016: Call for Papers. Posted on behalf of Wing-Shing Tang For the 8th Meeting of East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography (EARCAG) Radicalism in Theory and Practice This is … Continue reading →

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on December 20, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault on Writing; Making Time for Writing Theory, Culture & Society E-Special Issue: Fiction & Social Theory – edited by David Beer Causes of deaths in Shakespeare’s plays visualised Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 9 – restructuring the drafts of Chapters Four … Continue reading →

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Foucault books received – including his first book Maladie mentale et personnalité

Posted on December 18, 2015 by stuartelden

And these are the recent Foucault project books received – all bought second-hand. Most of these connect in some way to the work of the Groupe Information Asiles or Groupe Information santé, with the exception of a copy of the original … Continue reading →

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Books received – Cockburn, Benjamin, Agamben, Skornicki, GeoHumanities

Posted on December 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Some recent books – Patrick Cockburn’s The Rise of Islamic State and Walter Benjamin’s The Origins of German Tragic Drama, which I bought in the Verso sale; Arnault Skornicki, La grande soif de l’État. Michel Foucault avec les sciences sociales, which I … Continue reading →

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Annotated bibliography of Foucault’s texts on heterotopia at Heterotopian Studies

Posted on December 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Annotated bibliography of Foucault’s texts on heterotopia at Heterotopian Studies.

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 9 – restructuring the drafts of Chapters Four and Six

Posted on December 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault: The Birth of Power is taking shape. The first half of this book is comprised of three chapters: Measure, Inquiry, Examination. These treat, in order, Lectures on the Will to Know, Théories et Institutions Pénales, and The Punitive Society, along … Continue reading →

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Theory, Culture & Society E-Special Issue: Fiction & Social Theory – edited by David Beer

Posted on December 15, 2015 by stuartelden

Theory, Culture & Society E-Special Issue: Fiction & Social Theory – edited by David Beer This special issue brings together a range of articles from the Theory, Culture & Society archive that directly explore the relations between fiction and social … Continue reading →

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Shiloh Krupar, ‘Operational Banality: medical geographies of administration and the biopolitical grotesque’ – Neil Smith lecture video

Posted on December 15, 2015 by stuartelden

Shiloh Krupar, ‘Operational Banality: medical geographies of administration and the biopolitical grotesque’ – second Neil Smith lecture video. Thanks to Derek Gregory for the link. Neil Smith Lecture Nov 2015 from University of St Andrews on Vimeo.

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Causes of deaths in Shakespeare’s plays visualised

Posted on December 15, 2015 by stuartelden

Thanks to Murray Low for sharing this graphic Here’s another one, which I’ve shared on the blog before (from Biblioklept)…

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