Category Archives: Books

A minor note on Michel Foucault and Peter Brown: From a watershed to the parting of the waters

Posted on November 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Update 5 October 2025 – an updated and expanded version of this post, based on the new sources available, is here. In the closing lines of ‘Le combat de la chasteté’, first published in May 1982, Foucault mentions Peter Brown’s … Continue reading →

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Mark Kelly, Foucault and Politics: A Critical Introduction

Posted on November 21, 2014 by stuartelden

Mark G. E. Kelly, Foucault and Politics: A Critical Introduction This book surveys Michel Foucault’s thought in the context of his life and times, utilising the latest primary and secondary materials to explain the political implications of each phase of … Continue reading →

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Books received – Luxemburg, Sheehan, Burdon, Huggett

Posted on November 19, 2014 by stuartelden

All in recompense for review work – two for the ‘earth’/geopolitics project; Thomas Sheehan’s new book on Heidegger; and Rosa Luxemburg’s classic The Accumulation of Capital.

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Video of my ‘Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth’ lecture at Nottingham Contemporary

Posted on November 13, 2014 by stuartelden

Video of my ‘Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth‘ lecture and the discussion following it, at Nottingham Contemporary gallery last night. The introduction is by Emma Moore, the discussion is with Colin Wright, Sophie Fuggle and Alex Vasudevan. This was a really … Continue reading →

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Review essay of Branch, Sassen, Scott and Vigneswaran on historical and political understandings of territory, forthcoming in Society and Space

Posted on November 11, 2014 by stuartelden

I have a review essay of four books coming out in Society and Space in issue 1 next year. The books are Jordan Branch, The Cartographic State; Saskia Sassen, Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy; Tom Scott, The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600 and Darshan Vigneswaran, Territory, Migration, … Continue reading →

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Warburg Institute high court ruling – good news!

Posted on November 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Good news earlier this week about the future of the Warburg Institute library. I’ve said before how important this library was to my work on The Birth of Territory, and linked to a few earlier stages of this story. Here are … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 14

Posted on November 5, 2014 by stuartelden

It’s been two months since the last update on this book. I’ve been working, in and around lots of other things, on the manuscript, though more slowly than I’d hoped. I finished and published my review of On the Government of … Continue reading →

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‘Confession, Flesh, Power and Truth’ – my review of the most recently translated Foucault lecture courses

Posted on November 4, 2014 by stuartelden

My review of Foucault’s lecture courses Du gouvernement du vivants/On the Government of the Living and Mal faire, dire vrai/Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling is now available, open access, at Berfrois. It’s entitled ‘Confession, Flesh, Power and Truth‘ and it tries to situate these courses in … Continue reading →

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Critical Theory’s 10 books that came out in October

Posted on November 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Some good ones here – Sloterdijk, Rancière, Naas, Vogl and more…

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Video of my Groningen Lecture on Modes of Reasoning – ‘Globe, Governmentality, Geometrics’

Posted on October 31, 2014 by stuartelden

This is the video recording of my Groningen Lecture on Modes of Reasoning – ‘Globe, Governmentality, Geometrics’. More details about the lectures and the videos of the previous lecture from Mick Dillon here. Thanks to Luis Lobo-Guerrero for the invitation and chairing the … Continue reading →

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