Author Archives: stuartelden

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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Approaches to Human Geography: new edition published

Posted on January 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Pop Theory:
Oh the excitement – a new year, and a new book in the pigeon hole at work. The new, second edition of Approaches to Human Geography, edited by Stuart Aitken and Gill Valentine, has been…

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Books received – The Care of Life, Lefebvre for Architects, Henry IV, Part I and Issues in Political Theory

Posted on January 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Some other books received recently – an old edition of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part I; Nathaniel Coleman’s Lefebvre for Architects; the new collection The Care of Life, edited by Miguel de Beistegui, Giuseppe Bianco and Marjorie Gracieuse; the new edition of Catriona McKinnon’s Issues in … Continue reading →

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Books received – for the Foucault project

Posted on January 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Some books for the Foucault project – new editions of a couple of Foucault’s books; Jacques Donzelot’s L’invention du social; recent books by Jacques Bizet and Pierre Macherey; and the original outlets of a couple of Foucault essays and interviews.

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Ulrich Beck obituary in The Guardian

Posted on January 6, 2015 by stuartelden

Ulrich Beck obituary in The Guardian

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Political Geography forum on The Birth of Territory online

Posted on January 6, 2015 by stuartelden

Claudio Minca, Jeremy W. Crampton,  Joe Bryan, Juliet J. Fall, Alex B. Murphy, Anssi Paasi, Stuart Elden, “Reading Stuart Elden’s The Birth of Territory“, Political Geography, article in press (requires subscription or email me). The Birth of Territory is an outstanding scholarly achievement, a book ‘of remarkable … Continue reading →

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