Category Archives: Books

Another long day revising Foucault: The Birth of Power

Posted on May 14, 2016 by stuartelden

Another long day revising Foucault: The Birth of Power. Further work restructuring the introduction and some rewriting, and a bit more tweaking in the conclusion. Some of this is undoing the work done over the past couple of days and … Continue reading →

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End of day two of final revisions of Foucault: The Birth of Power

Posted on May 13, 2016 by stuartelden

Lots of work over the past two days on this second Foucault manuscript. In particular, the introduction is restructured, some parts rewritten and some new discussion. I say a bit more about the sources worked with, and the argument and approach up … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – essay on the content and process at Berfrois

Posted on May 13, 2016 by stuartelden

Update September 2025: the Berfrois site is now closed and the archive has been removed. My piece can now be found here. At the Berfrois website I have a short essay discussing Foucault’s Last Decade, both in terms of its … Continue reading →

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A fairly clear desk as I begin the final revisions of Foucault: The Birth of Power

Posted on May 12, 2016 by stuartelden

A fairly clear desk as I begin the final revisions of Foucault: The Birth of Power…

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Danger, Crime and Rights: A 1983 Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon – published in Theory, Culture & Society

Posted on May 11, 2016 by stuartelden

“Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon” has just been published by Theory, Culture and Society (Online First). The discussion from 1983 was previously only available as a recording in the Bancroft library at UC Berkeley. Katie Dingley … Continue reading →

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Books received – Shakespeare, Sartre, Neocleous, TCS, Gabrys, Foucault

Posted on May 9, 2016 by stuartelden

A pile of books received – three second-hand books for the Shakespeare work, Jean-Paul Sartre’s What is Subjectivity?, Mark Neocleous’s The Universal Adversary, the new issue of Theory, Culture & Society, Jennifer Gabrys’s Program Earth, and the 2004 special issue … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – now available worldwide

Posted on May 9, 2016 by stuartelden

Foucault’s Last Decade is now available worldwide – I’ve been getting a few messages to say that copies in North America are now being received. You can order direct from Polity’s distributor Wiley and, of course, other online retailers. Thank you to … Continue reading →

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Books received – Salter, Carrigan, Rossi, Chandler & Reid, and Shakespeare

Posted on April 29, 2016 by stuartelden

A pile of recently received books – Mark Salter’s Making Things International 2, Mark Carrigan’s Social Media for Academics, Andrea Rossi’s The Labour of Subjectivity, David Chandler & Julian Reid’s The Neoliberal Subject, and three second-hand books for the Shakespeare work. The … Continue reading →

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Foucault: The Birth of Power Update 14 – receiving the reader reports, and working on Farge and Foucault, Le désordre des familles

Posted on April 28, 2016 by stuartelden

I now have the two reader reports on Foucault: The Birth of Power, which are overwhelmingly positive about the manuscript. But I still have a bit of work to do revising it. I aim to complete the revisions in the … Continue reading →

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Hamlet: three productions and three texts

Posted on April 27, 2016 by stuartelden

I’ve now seen Hamlet five times in the last year, and three times in the last five weeks. Last year I saw Peter Sarsgaard in New York and Benedict Cumberbatch at the Barbican in London (my thoughts here and here). … Continue reading →

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