Category Archives: Books

Manifesto of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons translation in Viewpoint

Posted on February 17, 2016 by stuartelden

The manifesto of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons, authored by Foucault, Pierre Vidal-Naquet and Jean-Marie Domenich, which I translated for this site a couple of years ago, has been reprinted in Viewpoint magazine. The prison group, along with Foucault’s … Continue reading →

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The GIP, the 1972 Nancy prison revolt and the Gauche révolutionnaire – a request for help

Posted on February 11, 2016 by stuartelden

I wonder if anyone can help. I am looking for a brochure entitled ‘Révolte à la prison de Charles III de Nancy’, authored by the Groupe d’Information sur les prisons. It appeared as a supplement to Gauche révolutionnaire, no 9, … Continue reading →

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Books received – Shakespeare, Foucault, Jessop

Posted on February 9, 2016 by stuartelden

A pile of recently received books – mainly bought for the Shakespeare project, plus Foucault’s 1980 lectures About the Beginning of the Hermeneutic of the Subject and Bob Jessop’s The State: Past, Present, Future in recompense for review work. The text at the … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory reviewed in Political Theory by Hans Lindahl and Progress in Human Geography by Marco Antonsich

Posted on January 25, 2016 by stuartelden

The Birth of Territory is reviewed in Political Theory by Hans Lindahl – requires subscription. Here’s the final paragraph: From a philosophical viewpoint, Elden’s book is most interesting for the question it poses yet leaves unanswered: what is the relation between power and … Continue reading →

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 11: clearing the decks and beginning to move from Foucault to Shakespeare

Posted on January 19, 2016 by stuartelden

The UCL talk last week was the last one in the diary until September – a very deliberate choice to open up some time that needed quite a bit of forward-planning to achieve. I might do one or two book … Continue reading →

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Foucault and the Groupe Information Santé – a bibliography

Posted on January 19, 2016 by stuartelden

Foucault’s involvement with the Groupe d’Information sur les prisons is fairly well-known, with important collections of documentary material published in French, a forthcoming English translation of material, and a growing secondary literature in French and English. His involvement with the Groupe … Continue reading →

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Foucault and the Politics of Health: Collaborative research and activism – audio recording of UCL talk

Posted on January 18, 2016 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my talk of 12 January 2016 to the Geography Department seminar, University College London is now available here. The introduction is by Tariq Jazeel. “Foucault and the Politics of Health – Collaborative research and activism” Concentrating … Continue reading →

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Books received – several more for the Foucault work, including the new Œuvres

Posted on January 15, 2016 by stuartelden

Several books for the Foucault project, most picked up second-hand and relating to the work of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons, but also the new Œuvres and the Vrin edition of the Kant introduction along with Foucault’s translation of the text. On … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Discours et vérité précédé de La parrêsia (Feb 2016)

Posted on January 12, 2016 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Discours et vérité précédé de La parrêsia will appear with Vrin in February 2016. This is a critical French edition of the English language lectures on parresia delivered at Berkeley in the autumn of 1983, previously published as Fearless … Continue reading →

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Foucault and the Politics of Health – Collaborative research and activism – UCL, 12 Jan 2016, 12.30pm

Posted on January 11, 2016 by stuartelden

Just back from a week’s holiday, with no email or internet. Tomorrow at 1pm (refreshments from 12.30) I’ll be giving a talk entitled “Foucault and the Politics of Health – Collaborative research and activism”, to the Geography Department at University College London. … Continue reading →

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