Author Archives: stuartelden

Little plastic bodies

Posted on January 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Singular Things:
Stuart Elden is a professor of geography and political theory at Warwick University (UK) and Monash University (Australia). His fearsome appetite for hard books is charted at his blog Progressive Geographies*, which also includes all…

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Neoliberal Dogma? Revisiting Foucault on Social Security, Healthcare, and Autonomy (Pt. I of II)

Posted on January 12, 2015 by stuartelden

Another contribution to the ‘Foucault and neoliberalism’ debate.

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Media Practices and Urban Politics: A Conversation about Slow Theory

Posted on January 12, 2015 by stuartelden

A conversation at the Society and Space open site, with the relevant paper in the journal open access for a month.

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Books received – Latour, Douzinas, Roudinesco, McNay, Ricoeur, Leibniz, Western Sexuality and The Final Foucault

Posted on January 12, 2015 by stuartelden

Six books from Polity in recompense for review work; second-hand copies of Western Sexuality and The Final Foucault; and the new issues of Society and Space and RIPE.

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on January 11, 2015 by stuartelden

2014 in review – talks, publications and writing Foucault and Neoliberalism – a few thoughts in response to the Zamora piece in Jacobin Foucault on Parrhesia – translation of a 1982 lecture forthcoming in Critical Inquiry Political Geography forum on … Continue reading →

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Foucault on Parrēsia – translation of a 1982 lecture in Critical Inquiry (now available)

Posted on January 11, 2015 by stuartelden

A lecture by Foucault in 1982 at Université de Grenoble, on “Parrēsia” was first published in French in 2012 in the journal Anabases; it is now published in English in Critical Inquiry, translated by Graham Burchell (requires subscription). It is followed by … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Collaborative Projects – some updates

Posted on January 10, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ve updated this blog’s page on Foucault’s Collaborative Projects. The page now discusses Généalogie du capital; Généalogie des équipements de normalisation; Les machines à guérir; Politiques de l’habitat, L’impossible prison and Génealogie de la défense sociale en Belgique.

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Foucault on Kant’s ‘What is Enlightenment?’ – a mini bibliography

Posted on January 10, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault discussed Kant’s essay ‘What is Enlightenment?’ in various places. DE = Dits et écrits; EW = Essential Works; PT = The Politics of Truth lecture of 27 May 1978, published as “Qu’est-ce que la critique? (Critique et Aufklärung)”, Bulletin … Continue reading →

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We Will Not Shoot Back reviewed by Williams

Posted on January 10, 2015 by stuartelden

A new review at the Society and Space open site.

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Antipode 47(1) out now – and freely available without a subscription

Posted on January 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
We start the new year looking back to 2013 and the Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture. Presented in London by Bruce Braun (University of Minnesota) ‘New Materialisms and Neoliberal Natures’ was recorded by our publisher, Wiley, and…

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