Category Archives: Books

Michael Watts interviewed by Stuart Elden for Society and Space

Posted on January 5, 2015 by stuartelden

There is a long interview I conducted with Michael Watts (University of California, Berkeley) available open access at the Society & Space open site. We talk about, among other things – his first book Silent Violence (recently available in a new edition); … Continue reading →

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Foucault – uncollected notes, lectures and interviews, Progressive Geographies list updated

Posted on January 5, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ve updated the list of uncollected notes, lectures and interviews by Michel Foucault. Many of these have been posted on this site before, but this is an attempt at collecting details and links in one place. There are a couple of scans of … Continue reading →

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Foucault on the State in 1975 – a previously untranslated comment

Posted on January 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault was interviewed in 1975 for a Brazilian paper: Q: In your work, the State seems to occupy a privileged place. And the State represents a privileged instance for understanding historical-cultural formations. Could you specify the conditions of possibility which … Continue reading →

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2014 in review – talks, publications and writing

Posted on December 31, 2014 by stuartelden

I gave 22 talks of various kinds outside of regular teaching in 2014. These talks were in Australia, the United States, Switzerland, Holland and the UK. Some of these were on the Foucault project, some were related to The Birth of … Continue reading →

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The most important academic books to me from 2014

Posted on December 31, 2014 by stuartelden

A non-systematic, alphabetically ordered list of the academic books published this year I read and most liked – the photo is of some that were to hand. Louis Althusser, On the Reproduction of Capitalism (Verso) Ben Anderson, Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions (Ashgate) Étienne Balibar, Equaliberty: … Continue reading →

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Foucault – uncollected notes, lectures and interviews, a list on Progressive Geographies

Posted on December 29, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve made a list of uncollected notes, lectures and interviews by Michel Foucault. Many of these have been posted on this site before, but this is an attempt at collecting details and links in one place. There are a couple of scans … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s preparatory notes to Les mots et les choses (The Order of Things)

Posted on December 24, 2014 by stuartelden

This isn’t recent news, but I hadn’t seen this before. Foucault’s preparatory notes to Les mots et les choses (The Order of Things) are available online at La bibliothèque de Foucault : Guide des papiers de travail de Michel Foucault. The … Continue reading →

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Foucault and Simeon Wade – and the elusive ‘Chez Foucault’ publication

Posted on December 23, 2014 by stuartelden

Last week I posted about Time magazine’s profile of Foucault from 1981. The piece included this photograph: James Miller‘s biography of Foucault says that this picture was of Simeon Wade, and Wade’s friend ‘Michael’ (The Passion of Michel Foucault, pp. 437-8 n. 1). … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 16

Posted on December 22, 2014 by stuartelden

I have now a complete draft of Chapter Eight, but this has partly been achieved by moving discussion of the final two volumes of the History of Sexuality into the next chapter. The main thing I’ve accomplished is typing up … Continue reading →

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Foucault audio and video recordings – minor updates to chronological list

Posted on December 20, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve now updated the list of Foucault audio and video recordings, including a recording of the first few lectures of L’hermeneutique du sujet from 1982. This recording then jumps to lectures from 1984. This list is part of the ‘Foucault Resources‘ part … Continue reading →

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