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The other Henri Lefebvre – excerpt from The Missing Pieces in Berfrois

Posted on December 28, 2014 by stuartelden

Although it appears in at least one bibliography of the better-known Henri Lefebvre, Les unités perdues, translated as The Missing Pieces, is actually by a different author, born in 1959. It’s an interesting book on abandoned, lost, destroyed, forgotten and unfinished works, … Continue reading →

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Verso ebook sale – 90% off until January 1st 2015

Posted on December 27, 2014 by stuartelden

Verso have an ebook sale – 90% off until January 1st 2015. I picked up nine for less than £15 – books by Eric Hazan, Danny Dorling, Slavoj Zizek, Shlomo Sand, Walter Benjamin, Stanley Aronowitz, Keller Easterling, Arundhati Roy and Marcus … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s preparatory notes to Les mots et les choses (The Order of Things)

Posted on December 24, 2014 by stuartelden

This isn’t recent news, but I hadn’t seen this before. Foucault’s preparatory notes to Les mots et les choses (The Order of Things) are available online at La bibliothèque de Foucault : Guide des papiers de travail de Michel Foucault. The … Continue reading →

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Foucault on Parrhesia – translation of a 1982 lecture forthcoming in Critical Inquiry

Posted on December 24, 2014 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. Another lecture from this same trip, “Rêver de ses plaisirs”, was published in 1983, and is a variant of … Continue reading →

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Adam Kuper on Anthropologists and Anthropology, forty years on

Posted on December 23, 2014 by stuartelden

Adam Kuper has an interesting piece on his book Anthropologists and Anthropology, forty years on and in an updated new edition (with a reversed title). It’s a survey of British Anthropology as a discipline – almost an anthropology of anthropology. Kuper … Continue reading →

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The Lancet on IMF reforms and the West African Ebola crisis

Posted on December 23, 2014 by stuartelden

Writing today in the journal Lancet Global Health, researchers from Cambridge University’s Department of Sociology examine the links between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. According to the authors, joined by colleagues from Oxford … Continue reading →

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Foucault and Iran (and Ernst Bloch) – an August 1979 interview newly available in French

Posted on December 23, 2014 by stuartelden

Thanks to a reader who wishes to remain anonymous for sending me these details of an interview with Foucault about Iran conducted in August 1979, which was first published in French in 2013. I’ve stumbled upon an interview with Foucault from this era … Continue reading →

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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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