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Foucault and Simeon Wade – and the elusive ‘Chez Foucault’ publication

Posted on December 23, 2014 by stuartelden

Last week I posted about Time magazine’s profile of Foucault from 1981. The piece included this photograph: James Miller‘s biography of Foucault says that this picture was of Simeon Wade, and Wade’s friend ‘Michael’ (The Passion of Michel Foucault, pp. 437-8 n. 1). … Continue reading →

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Theories and counter-theories of the drone

Posted on December 23, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
I expect many readers will know Patrick Crogan‘s Gameplay mode: war, simulation and technoculture (Minnesota, 2011).  He has now uploaded what I think is a draft of Drones and global technicity: automation and (dis)individuation at academia.  Here’s…

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 16

Posted on December 22, 2014 by stuartelden

I have now a complete draft of Chapter Eight, but this has partly been achieved by moving discussion of the final two volumes of the History of Sexuality into the next chapter. The main thing I’ve accomplished is typing up … Continue reading →

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Étienne Balibar discusses Foucault’s La société punitive, with a response from Judith Butler

Posted on December 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Étienne Balibar discusses Foucault’s La société punitive and his relation to Marx, with a response from Judith Butler. Audio files available here, via Multipliciudades. For his lecture “Foucault and Marx: A Disjunctive Synthesis?”, Étienne Balibar discusses connections and disjunctions between Michel Foucault … Continue reading →

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Marijn Nieuwenhuis, ‘The Terror in the Air’ at Open Democracy

Posted on December 22, 2014 by stuartelden

My Warwick colleague Marijn Nieuwenhuis has a new piece entitled ‘The Terror in the Air‘ at Open Democracy. The ranges from Beijing pollution to tear gas, and Eric Garner to Peter Sloterdijk.

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Michel Foucault: The Late Lectures (2014)

Posted on December 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcUQ6JpKXgE&feature=youtu.be Michel Foucault: The Late Lectures Columbia Maison Française November 7, 2014, a panel discussion with Seyla Benhabib, François Ewald, Bernard E. Harcourt, George Kateb, and Emmanuelle Saada. In his late Collège de France lectures,…

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Foucault and Neoliberalism – the debate continues (on Progressive Geographies)

Posted on December 22, 2014 by stuartelden

There are some interesting comments on last week’s thoughts on the Foucault and Neoliberalism debate – here. In particular the points made by Stephen Shapiro and Michael Behrent are worth reading – both are situating the discussion within a wider … Continue reading →

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on December 21, 2014 by stuartelden

The Foucault and neoliberalism debate dominated this week – with my response the most popular post on this site in some time. Foucault and Neoliberalism – a few thoughts in response to the Zamora piece in Jacobin Stuart Elden on … Continue reading →

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Postmodern Velázquez (2014)

Posted on December 21, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Postmodern Velázquez, New York Times, Dec 11 2014 In Michel Foucault’s  essay on Velázquez’s  baroque masterpiece “Las Meninas,”  he comments on Velázquez’s decision to insert his self-portrait into the painting’s narrative, planting a seed that…

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The domestic uncanny and the geographical unconscious: two new reviews

Posted on December 21, 2014 by stuartelden

Two new reviews at the Society and Space open site.

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