Category Archives: Foucault’s Last Decade

History of the Present – the Berkeley newsletter on Foucault’s work online

Posted on February 16, 2015 by stuartelden

[Update September 2023 – thanks to a comment below for saying these are available via the Wayback Machine: 1; 2; 3; 4 Update Nov 2018 – these links appear to be dead. Please comment if they become live again or … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 20

Posted on February 11, 2015 by stuartelden

Since I arrived in Melbourne I’ve been working on the complete manuscript of the Foucault book, and I’ve made use of the libraries of Monash University, State Library of Victoria and University of Melbourne. One thing that the University of … Continue reading →

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Poster for University of Sydney talk on “Foucault’s Third Course on Governmentality”

Posted on February 10, 2015 by stuartelden

I posted details of all my talks in Sydney over the next few weeks yesterday. A very nice poster for the University of Sydney talk has just been produced.

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Talks in Sydney on Foucault, Territory, Shakespeare and Geopolitics in February and March

Posted on February 10, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ll be talking about and discussing aspects of most of my current and recent work in Sydney in late February and mid-March. 26 February, 4pm, “Foucault’s Third Course on Governmentality”, Darlington Centre Boardroom, Department of Political Economy/Centre for International Security … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 19: a nearly complete first draft

Posted on January 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Since the last update I’ve spent two long days working on the individual chapter files, checking and rechecking things, filling in references, and reorganising some things. In particular I reworked all the parts on the lettres de cachet. I’ve decided … Continue reading →

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Books received – more for the Foucault project

Posted on January 23, 2015 by stuartelden

A few books for the Foucault project, including two by Pierre Hadot.

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 18

Posted on January 21, 2015 by stuartelden

The last major task of the first draft was a discussion of the final two Paris lecture courses, The Government of Self and Others and The Courage of Truth. The first of these courses provides the basis for the October-November … Continue reading →

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Todd May reviews Michel Foucault, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling at NDPR

Posted on January 20, 2015 by stuartelden

Todd May reviews Michel Foucault’s 1981 Louvain lectures, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice, at NDPR. You can read my take on those lectures, and On the Government of the Living, at Berfrois.

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A request for help – some difficult-to-find texts by Michel Foucault

Posted on January 16, 2015 by stuartelden

I wonder if anyone reading can help locate copies of these texts by, or about, Foucault. Texts crossed out are ones that I have been sent copies of already. Michel Foucault, “Photogenic painting”, translated by Pierre A. Walker, Critical texts, … Continue reading →

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‘Maurice Florence’ on Michel Foucault – the missing opening paragraph

Posted on January 14, 2015 by stuartelden

One of the things I’ve been doing with the Foucault’s Last Decade project is checking the original publication of texts in several instances, rather than relying on the reprints in Dits et écrits. Sometimes this is because the company Foucault … Continue reading →

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