Author Archives: stuartelden

The Palgrave Foucault collection: Special discount for Foucault News readers (2015)

Posted on October 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Editor: Palgrave Macmillan have kindly offered a 30% discount to readers of Foucault News on books in their Foucault collection Works included in this collection are The Punitive Society and Michel Foucault: A Research Companion…

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Deleuze: Lettres et autres textes

Posted on October 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on My Desiring-Machines:
As I understand it, this edition — edited by David Lapoujade — will be available 11/5. From Minuit’s website (my translation into English): Lettres et autres texts (Letters and other texts) is the third and…

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 5 – more on his collaborative work and drafting Chapter Two on Théories et institutions pénales

Posted on October 21, 2015 by stuartelden

Most of the most recent work on this book project has been on the section of Chapter Two discussing the Nu-Pieds revolts. An analysis of these, and the repression that follows, takes up the first seven lectures of Théories et … Continue reading →

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Today’s writing task – beginning work on a preface to Henri Lefebvre’s Marxist Thought and the City

Posted on October 20, 2015 by stuartelden

Today’s writing task – beginning work on a preface to Henri Lefebvre’s Marxist Thought and the City, forthcoming in late 2016 with University of Minnesota Press.

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The politics of human shielding: a supplemental essay by Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini

Posted on October 19, 2015 by stuartelden

Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini on the politics of human shielding – an open site supplement to an essay in Society and Space, open access for a limited time.

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on October 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Eduardo Gudynas, David Harvey, Ecuador and ‘sympathetic colonialism’ – links to Spanish/English versions of both texts The challenge of saying ‘no’ to academic requests Michel Foucault on refugees – a previously untranslated interview from 1979 Eleven thoughts on reading and citing Two posts in … Continue reading →

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Books received – Duménil and Lévy, Massumi, Nietzsche, Clark, Shakespeare, Comité d’action santé, Langlois

Posted on October 17, 2015 by stuartelden

A pile of recently acquired books – Dumenil and Levy’s The Crisis of Neoliberalism, Brian Massumi’s Ontopower, Friedrich Nietzsche’s Writing from the Early Notebooks, Timothy Clark, Ecocriticism on the Edge, the Penguin edition of Shakespeare’s Richard II, Comité d’action santé, … Continue reading →

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Foucault, Oeuvres: more details on the Pleiade edition, c.3600 pages in two volumes

Posted on October 17, 2015 by stuartelden

More details of the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade edition of Foucault’s Oeuvres. Two volumes, 1712 and 1792 pages – all the books under his name, plus a selection of shorter texts. Not clear if that includes the 1954 book Maladie mentale et personnalité, as … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, “Territory – Political Technology, Volume, Terrain”, video of Architectural Association lecture

Posted on October 16, 2015 by stuartelden

The video of my lecture on “Territory – Political Technology, Volume, Terrain“, given as a Landscape Urbanism Open School Event, Architectural Association lecture on  7/10/2015 is now available. The volume is very quiet, and it begins a few moments in … Continue reading →

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‘No Posthumous Publications’ – responses to some questions about Foucault and the future publication of the History of Sexuality Vol IV

Posted on October 16, 2015 by stuartelden

In the German interview with Daniel Defert I linked to earlier this week, it was revealed that the fourth volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality will eventually be published. This is my attempt at answering some of the common questions – some I’ve received … Continue reading →

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