Category Archives: Books

Michel Foucault, On the Punitive Society – forthcoming in translation from Palgrave

Posted on June 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, On the Punitive Society, translated by Graham Burchell, forthcoming from Palgrave – date unclear: Palgrave say June; Amazon August. Thanks to Chatham Vemuri for the link to the updated Palgrave page. These thirteen lectures on the ‘punitive society,’ delivered … Continue reading →

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King John at the Globe – the text, the Magna Carta, land and the question of territory

Posted on June 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Last night I went to see the rarely performed King John at the Globe theatre in London. The production – the last of the canonical plays to be performed at the Globe – was timed to coincide with the 800th … Continue reading →

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Kostas Axelos, Introduction to a Future Way of Thought: On Marx and Heidegger – now available open access from Meson Press

Posted on June 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Kostas Axelos, Introduction to a Future Way of Thought: On Marx and Heidegger – now published by Meson Press. The book is open access online and print-on-demand The book was translated by Kenneth Mills, and edited and introduced by me. “Technologists only … Continue reading →

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Foucault, About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980

Posted on June 17, 2015 by stuartelden

A few more details about Michel Foucault, About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980, translated by Graham Burchell, are available at the University of Chicago Press site. Much of the material in this … Continue reading →

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Geography blogs – a list, and a discussion of ‘why blog?’

Posted on June 16, 2015 by stuartelden

Sam Kinsley has compiled a list of Geographers that blog, and followed this with a post questioning their focus, an excerpt of which was: It was a surprise to me how quite a few of those blogs, with some honourable … Continue reading →

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Books received – several volumes of the RSC Shakespeare from Palgrave

Posted on June 15, 2015 by stuartelden

Several volumes of the RSC Shakespeare series in recompense for review work from Palgrave Macmillan. While I prefer the Arden third series for the texts and apparatus, these editions have useful introductions, especially on performance history, so I’ve been building … Continue reading →

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Peter Kirwan on the Shakespeare Apocrypha at Warwick’s Sidelights on Shakespeare

Posted on June 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Fascinating talk at Warwick today by Peter Kirwan on “The Incomplete Works of William Shakespeare: Handling the Apocrypha“, as part of the Sidelights on Shakespeare lecture programme. The talk related to his just published book Shakespeare and the Idea of Apocrypha: Negotiating … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s 1983 seminar at Berkeley – tracing the people in the ‘cowboy hat’ photograph

Posted on June 5, 2015 by stuartelden

In Didier Eribon’s biography of Foucault, there is a picture of Foucault in a cowboy hat, together with Paul Rabinow and some students at Berkeley. The hat was a gift from the students. This group met in parallel with the … Continue reading →

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Review essay of Michel Foucault, Théories et institutions pénales: Cours au Collège de France 1971-1972 at Berfrois

Posted on June 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Update September 2025: the Berfrois site is now closed and the archive has been removed. My piece can now be found here. My review essay of Michel Foucault, Théories et institutions pénales: Cours au Collège de France 1971-1972, edited by … Continue reading →

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Books received 4 – various: Meillassoux, Trawny, Eco, Butler, Krell, Naas, Funambulist papers, journals

Posted on June 1, 2015 by stuartelden

And everything else that was in the pile of post as I returned from the US. Umberto Eco’s How to Write a Thesis; Quentin Meillassoux’s Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction; Peter Trawny’s Freedom to Fail: Heidegger’s Anarchy; The Funambulist Papers Volume 2 (in which … Continue reading →

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