Category Archives: Books

Books received 3 – books from publishers or authors

Posted on June 1, 2015 by stuartelden

Complementary copies from publishers or authors. Mark Salter’s Making Things International 1, Christopher Roth’s Let’s Split! – a guide to secessionist states; Oli Mould’s Urban Subversion and the Creative City; Hughes Lethierry’s Agir avec Henri Lefebvre and Shannon Mattern’s Deep Mapping the Media City. Thanks to … Continue reading →

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Books received 2 – various things for the Foucault projects

Posted on June 1, 2015 by stuartelden

Books received – various things for the Foucault projects, including the new lecture course, background on May 68 and the abortion rights struggle in France, one of Foucault’s major sources on the revolt of the Nu-pieds, and a book about his … Continue reading →

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Books received – review work for Routledge: Marcuse, Pugliese, Valverde, Barry and Born, and Parker

Posted on June 1, 2015 by stuartelden

Books received in recompense for review work for Routledge: Marcuse, Pugliese, Valverde, Barry and Born, and Parker.

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Andrew Barry, “Geography and Other Disciplines” – discussion of genealogy and the canon

Posted on May 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Andrew Barry has a very interesting new essay published, “Geography and Other Disciplines” – a discussion of geography and the canon. There is also an introduction to the theme issue of which this is part by Richard Powell [update: corrected from … Continue reading →

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Osama bin Laden’s bookshelf

Posted on May 23, 2015 by stuartelden

A little late linking to this, but the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released information of what was found in the compound used by bin Laden. (It would appear the timing is linked to the Seymour Hersh … Continue reading →

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“Foucault and Shakespeare: Ceremony, Theatre and Politics”, abstract for workshop at Theatre, Performance, Foucault!, King’s College London, 4 July 2015

Posted on May 22, 2015 by stuartelden

I previously shared the call for papers for the Theatre, Performance, Foucault! workshop at King’s College London on 4 July 2015. I’ll be presenting on the topic of “Foucault and Shakespeare: Ceremony, Theatre and Politics”. This is the intersection of my two … Continue reading →

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Foucault books: update 23 – working with the Semiotext(e) archive

Posted on May 19, 2015 by stuartelden

I have now finished working through all the papers in Sylvère Lotringer’s Semiotext(e) archive in the Fales Library at New York University which have a relation to this project. In among a lot of things that were of little interest, … Continue reading →

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Hot off the press – Foucault’s Théories et institutions pénales is published

Posted on May 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Hot off the press – Foucault’s Théories et institutions pénales is published. This is the last Collège de France course to appear, though it is the second in sequence, from 1971-72. Bernard E. Harcourt edited the text, it comes with … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 22: work with the Semiotext(e) archive and manuscript submitted for review

Posted on May 12, 2015 by stuartelden

The manuscript of Foucault’s Last Decade, as I’ve said, was almost complete. It is now with the press for review. In the last couple of weeks, while in New York, I’ve chased down a few final references; read the very … Continue reading →

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Day three in the Foucault archive at UC Berkeley

Posted on May 7, 2015 by stuartelden

A final day in the Bancroft library at UC Berkeley (see my notes on day one and day two). Today I listened to some recordings they had of lectures in São Paulo. The library catalogue provides no information at all, and Beaulieu’s list just … Continue reading →

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