Category Archives: Foucault’s Last Decade

A minor note on Michel Foucault and Peter Brown: From a watershed to the parting of the waters

Posted on November 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Update 5 October 2025 – an updated and expanded version of this post, based on the new sources available, is here. In the closing lines of ‘Le combat de la chasteté’, first published in May 1982, Foucault mentions Peter Brown’s … Continue reading →

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Video of my ‘Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth’ lecture at Nottingham Contemporary

Posted on November 13, 2014 by stuartelden

Video of my ‘Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth‘ lecture and the discussion following it, at Nottingham Contemporary gallery last night. The introduction is by Emma Moore, the discussion is with Colin Wright, Sophie Fuggle and Alex Vasudevan. This was a really … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 14

Posted on November 5, 2014 by stuartelden

It’s been two months since the last update on this book. I’ve been working, in and around lots of other things, on the manuscript, though more slowly than I’d hoped. I finished and published my review of On the Government of … Continue reading →

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‘Confession, Flesh, Power and Truth’ – my review of the most recently translated Foucault lecture courses

Posted on November 4, 2014 by stuartelden

My review of Foucault’s lecture courses Du gouvernement du vivants/On the Government of the Living and Mal faire, dire vrai/Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling is now available, open access, at Berfrois. It’s entitled ‘Confession, Flesh, Power and Truth‘ and it tries to situate these courses in … Continue reading →

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CFP ‘Time Served: Discipline and Punish forty years on’ – 11-12 Sept 2015, The Galleries of Justice, Nottingham, UK

Posted on October 28, 2014 by stuartelden

Posted on behalf of Sophie Fuggle – a call for papers for a fascinating sounding Foucault conference next year, in an intriguing venue. I’ll be giving one of the plenary talks. Time Served: Discipline and Punish forty years on 11-12 … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Collaborative Projects – some updates

Posted on October 27, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve updated this blog’s page on Foucault’s Collaborative Projects. The page discusses Généalogie du capital; Généalogie des équipements de normalisation; Les machines à guérir; Politiques de l’habitat and Génealogie de la défense sociale en Belgique.

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“Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth”, University of Nottingham Centre for Critical Theory lecture, Nottingham Contemporary, 12 November 2014

Posted on October 22, 2014 by stuartelden

[Update: the video of the event is now available here.] On 12 November 2014, I’ll be giving a University of Nottingham Centre for Critical Theory lecture at Nottingham Contemporary gallery. The title is “Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth”, and I’ll be … Continue reading →

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Books received – Bartleson, Charnes, Debrix & Barder, Peoples & Vaughan Williams, Whitehead, Foucault et. al, and journals

Posted on October 15, 2014 by stuartelden

A few books from Routledge in recompense for review work, new issues of Transactions, Review of International Studies and Theory, Culture and Society, and a first edition (1976) of the Foucault-led Les machines á guerir. As I discuss in the page on Foucault’s collaborative projects, this … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s On the Government of the Living – book received and review forthcoming

Posted on October 10, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve just received a copy of the latest Foucault lecture course to be translated, 1980’s On the Government of the Living. the translation of Du gouvernement des vivants. The French was published two years ago; there are two lecture courses out in … Continue reading →

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My essay on Foucault’s La société punitive – forthcoming in Historical Materialism

Posted on September 24, 2014 by stuartelden

My substantial (c. 8,000 words) essay on Foucault’s La société punitive is forthcoming in Historical Materialism. Thanks to Sebastian Budgen for his invitation to write this, and Alberto Toscano for taking it through two rounds of review. My shorter review of this important … Continue reading →

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