Category Archives: Foucault: The Birth of Power

Books received – Recherches, Foucault, Fourquet, Shakespeare, Vasudevan, Whatmore

Posted on November 25, 2015 by stuartelden

A pile of recent books bought or received. Alex Vasudevan’s Metropolitan Preoccupations: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin was sent by him; and Richard Whatmore, What is Intellectual History? came from Polity – preordered in recompense for review work. Both look really interesting. … Continue reading →

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 7 – working at the Bibliothèque Nationale and a meeting with Foucault’s nephew

Posted on November 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Last week was spent at the Bibliothèque Nationale again, continuing the work on the Foucault papers archived there. I worked through four boxes – the last of the five boxes of preparatory notes for Surveiller et punir that also relate to … Continue reading →

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 6 – working on The Punitive Society, drafting Chapter Three, work on Chapter Six and giving some talks

Posted on November 16, 2015 by stuartelden

The bulk of the recent work has been on Chapter Three. This is mainly a discussion of The Punitive Society, along with related materials. The chapter is based on a long review essay I wrote on the French original for Historical Materialism … Continue reading →

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Audio recordings of recent talks on Foucault – on Foucault, Porshnev and the Revolt of the Nu-Pieds, and Foucault’s Collaborative Projects

Posted on November 12, 2015 by stuartelden

Audio recordings of two recent talks on Foucault, both of which draw on material from the manuscript of Foucault: The Birth of Power, with a little from Foucault’s Last Decade in the second talk. Foucault, Porshnev and the Revolt of the Nu-Pieds, Historical … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Collaborative Projects – seminar at LSE, November 10th, 4.30pm

Posted on November 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Tomorrow I will be giving a talk entitled “Foucault’s Collaborative Projects: Hospitals, Habitat, and Public Infrastructure” to the Cities, Space and Development seminar series of the Department of Geography & Environment, at the London School of Economics at 4.30pm. It will be held in … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade cover

Posted on November 9, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ve been waiting to share the cover of Foucault’s Last Decade until the Polity Press webpage was complete, but it is now up on Amazon, so here it is. It will form a pair with Foucault: The Birth of Power – this book … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – working on the proofs

Posted on October 28, 2015 by stuartelden

The proofs for Foucault’s Last Decade have now arrived, so I need to make time to work on them. The Polity webpage for the book is still incomplete, but you can read much more about the book here. I’m also working … Continue reading →

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 5 – more on his collaborative work and drafting Chapter Two on Théories et institutions pénales

Posted on October 21, 2015 by stuartelden

Most of the most recent work on this book project has been on the section of Chapter Two discussing the Nu-Pieds revolts. An analysis of these, and the repression that follows, takes up the first seven lectures of Théories et … Continue reading →

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Books received – Duménil and Lévy, Massumi, Nietzsche, Clark, Shakespeare, Comité d’action santé, Langlois

Posted on October 17, 2015 by stuartelden

A pile of recently acquired books – Dumenil and Levy’s The Crisis of Neoliberalism, Brian Massumi’s Ontopower, Friedrich Nietzsche’s Writing from the Early Notebooks, Timothy Clark, Ecocriticism on the Edge, the Penguin edition of Shakespeare’s Richard II, Comité d’action santé, … Continue reading →

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Foucault: The Birth of Power Update 4 – collaborative work and a complete draft of Chapter One on the Lectures on the Will to Know and related materials

Posted on October 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Since the last update, I’ve been working on various aspects of this project. The first was a return to some of Foucault’s collaborative projects around CERFI. Quite late in the drafting of Foucault’s Last Decade I removed most of the … Continue reading →

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