Author Archives: stuartelden

Antony and Cleopatra @theRSC

Posted on November 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Last night I went to see Antony and Cleopatra at the Royal Shakespeare Company, in the smaller Swan Theatre. Despite a few fluffed lines from Jonathan Cake as Antony, it was a good production, effectively edited and reimagined in Haiti. The … Continue reading →

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Campbell and Sitze, Biopolitics: A Reader – introduction available online

Posted on November 24, 2013 by stuartelden

This looks a useful resource – Timothy Campbell and Adam Sitze, Biopolitics; A Reader. The introduction is available online here. This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of biopolitics, which has become so significant throughout the humanities and social … Continue reading →

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More-than-human intelligence: of dolphins, Indian law and the multispecies turn by Filippo Bertoni and Uli Beisel

Posted on November 22, 2013 by stuartelden

A commentary on nonhuman sovereignty at the Society and Space open site.

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Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco translator William Weaver has died

Posted on November 22, 2013 by stuartelden

Crooked Timber has the news here, and links to an obituary in The Guardian.

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A short previously untranslated comment by Foucault on religion, witches and madness – and the need for a structuralist study

Posted on November 22, 2013 by stuartelden

Update August 2026: Material from this post has been used in a longer discussion, The Experience of the Demonic and Its Waning: Foucault, Madness and Witchcraft. In a post earlier this week I discussed a text of Foucault’s from 1969 on … Continue reading →

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CFP: Michel Foucault: Ethnography and Critique (2014)

Posted on November 21, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Call for Papers Michel Foucault: Ethnography and Critique Convenors: Orazio Irrera & Martina Tazzioli Bergamo, June 5-7, 2014 Deadline: February 17, 2014 Conference Website and contact details [Editor: Link Updated 16 April 2026 to page…

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The first issue of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies [It’s Official]

Posted on November 21, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies:
Very happy to announce that… the long awaited first issue of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is now posted on Intellect’s website! click here to see its contents, [and remember to have your library subscribe…] The…

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Noel Castree: Representing the Anthropocene

Posted on November 21, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
Love the subtitle: Who will get to speak for everything and how?

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Philippe Artières, Intolérable – Groupe d’information sur les prisons

Posted on November 21, 2013 by stuartelden

A collection of the writings of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons, edited by Philippe Artières, was published earlier this year by Gallimard – full details here. I’m not sure how this text relates to an earlier collection Artières was … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, ‘Médecins, Juges et Sorciers au XVIIe Siècle’ – some thoughts on dating and content

Posted on November 20, 2013 by stuartelden

Update August 2026: An updated and expanded version of this post is The Experience of the Demonic and Its Waning: Foucault, Madness and Witchcraft. There is a curious text by Foucault, initially published as «Médecins, juges et sorciers au XVIIe siècle», Médecine de … Continue reading →

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