Author Archives: stuartelden

Ebola in Sierra Leone: News from the Frontline – Peter Penfold at African Arguments

Posted on January 14, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ve not been updating the Ebola reading list much recently, but this is an interesting piece on ‘Ebola in Sierra Leone‘ by Peter Penfold, former British High Commissioner to the country.

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Kathleen Biddick, Make and Let Die: Untimely Sovereignties – forthcoming from Punctum Books

Posted on January 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Kathleen Biddick’s Make and Let Die: Untimely Sovereignties is forthcoming from Punctum Books. This collection of essays by one of medieval studies’ most brilliant and prescient historians argues that the analysis and critique of biopower, as conventionally defined by Michel Foucault … Continue reading →

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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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