Category Archives: Foucault’s Last Decade

The Funambulist on Stoler, Foucault and Race

Posted on December 30, 2013 by stuartelden

The Funambulist has an interesting post on ‘The Desired Colonized Body: Foucault and Race by Ann Laura Stoler‘. I clearly remember reading Stoler’s text Race and the Education of Desire while doing my PhD, and finding its discussion of Foucault’s as-then-unpublished lecture course … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s La société punitive – some additional thoughts on the second half

Posted on December 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Following my thoughts on the first half, here are some additional comments on the second half of Foucault’s 1973 lecture course La société punitive. As mentioned, I’ll be writing a much more formal and thorough review for Berfrois. – Harcourt’s notes … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s La société punitive – some initial thoughts on the first half

Posted on December 23, 2013 by stuartelden

I received Foucault’s La société punitive last week, and it was the only academic book I took with me on my Christmas trip to Ghana. As with these lecture courses generally I know I will read them several times, so … Continue reading →

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Fifteen years ago today I submitted my PhD thesis

Posted on December 18, 2013 by stuartelden

My PhD thesis was entitled ‘Mapping the Present: Space and History in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault’ and it was submitted in December 1998 (I’m pretty sure it was on the 18th). It was examined … Continue reading →

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Books received – Macey, Roberts, Amoore, Barry, Dosse, Tel Quel Reader, TCS, JUCS

Posted on November 26, 2013 by stuartelden

Some older books ordered for the Foucault project – the Dosse has some important information on CERFI, there is a Foucault piece in The Tel Quel Reader; Andrew Barry’s Material Politics and Louise Amoore’s The Politics of Possibility sent by … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – fifth update

Posted on November 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Having put together rough drafts of chapters 1 and 2 (see previous update), I was now able to move to the real focus of the book. But there is no simple break, and even as I go onto these chapters there … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault and Jean-Pierre Peter – some thoughts on sources of ‘the abnormals’ and the case of Pierre Rivière

Posted on November 18, 2013 by stuartelden

In The Abnormals lecture course, Foucault refers to a veritable rogues’ gallery of murderers, cannibals and perverts. The latter term, of course, is one that he examines in terms of its historical emergence – what counts as a deviation, an … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – fourth update

Posted on October 25, 2013 by stuartelden

It has been a long time since the third update on the book I’m writing entitled Foucault’s Last Decade, under contract with Polity Press. Since that last update I’ve moved house and started a new job – both of which have … Continue reading →

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Foucault, Miles Davis, Ghanaian sunshine…

Posted on October 23, 2013 by stuartelden
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Books received

Posted on September 27, 2013 by stuartelden

Two books for the Foucault project – a collection of pieces on the first volume of the History of Sexuality, and the only other volume of Les Vies Parallèles series Foucault initiated (the first was the Herculine Barbin memoir); David Harvey’s A … Continue reading →

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