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Foucault’s ‘Rêver de ses plaisirs’ – comparison of the 1983 article and 1984 chapter (and a request for help)

Posted on December 19, 2014 by stuartelden

As a kind of appendix to my comparison of the three different introductions to the History of Sexuality volume II, I thought I would share my working notes on the two different versions of the first chapter of History of Sexuality volume … Continue reading →

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Time Magazine profile of Foucault from 1981

Posted on December 19, 2014 by stuartelden

In 1981 Foucault was profiled in Time magazine – Otto Friedrich with Sandra Burton, “France’s Philosopher of Power”, Time, November 16 1981, pp. 58-9. I’d seen a few references to this piece before, such as in Mark Kelly’s guide to the first … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault’s ‘apology’ for neoliberalism (2014)

Posted on December 19, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Mitchell Dean, Michel Foucault’s ‘apology’ for neoliberalism. Lecture delivered at the British Library on the 30th anniversary of the death of Michel Foucault, June 25, 2014, Journal of Political Power, Volume 7, Issue 3, 2014,…

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Radio Benjamin – Walter Benjamin’s radio transcripts reviewed in Berfrois by David Beer

Posted on December 19, 2014 by stuartelden

  Radio Benjamin is reviewed by David Beer in Berfrois. Here’s the opening two paragraphs: Writing at sometime around 1930 or 1931, Walter Benjamin (p.364) suggested that the voice on the radio is a like a visitor in the home, … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Agamben’s Homo Sacer: The Last Act (L’Uso dei Corpi)

Posted on December 18, 2014 by stuartelden

At Critical Legal Thinking, Flavio Michele Ceci discusses ‘Homo Sacer: The Last Act’ – the recent publication of Giorgio Agamben’s L’uso dei Corpi — forthcoming in English translation as The Use (or Usage?) of Bodies. Here’s the first paragraph: Giorgio Agamben has abandoned Homo sacer. By his own … Continue reading →

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Geographica Helvetica – open access from 1 January 2015

Posted on December 18, 2014 by stuartelden

This is good news – Geographica Helvetica will be open access for both new work and all the archives from 1st January 2015. I’ve been on the board of this journal for the past few years and it’s published some … Continue reading →

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Rethinking possibilism for an Anthropocenic geopolitics – cfp for RGS-IBG 2015

Posted on December 18, 2014 by stuartelden

Philip Conway has put together a call for papers for a session or sessions on ‘Rethinking possibilism for an Anthropocenic geopolitics’ for the 2015 RGS-IBG conference. RGS-IBG Conference on ‘Geographies of the Anthropocene’, 1st – 4th September 2015, University of Exeter – full details … Continue reading →

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Books received – Parikka, Foucault, Marder, Chenal

Posted on December 18, 2014 by stuartelden

Jussi Parikka’s The Anthrobscene; a collection of contemporary reviews and discussions of the second and third volumes of Foucault’s History of Sexuality; Michael Marder’s Pyropolitics and Jérôme Chenal’s The West African City.

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Stuart Elden on Foucault and Neoliberalism

Posted on December 17, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Here. I had been rounding up a post on this but never got around to it, and Stuart makes excellent and helpful points (with the modesty to suggest his views are…

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Foucault and Neoliberalism – a few thoughts in response to the Zamora piece in Jacobin

Posted on December 17, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve been away, but several people have been sending me links to a recent string of articles on Foucault’s supposed sympathies to neoliberalism. The start of the debate – in English at least – was the translation of an interview … Continue reading →

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