Category Archives: Books

Henri Lefebvre’s 1954 doctoral thesis on peasant communities in the Pyrenees

Posted on September 5, 2014 by stuartelden

This is very intriguing – it seems Lefebvre’s 1954 doctoral thesis on peasant communities in the Pyrenees is coming out in French. His secondary thesis La vallée du Campan was published in 1963, but this is the first publication of … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 13

Posted on September 5, 2014 by stuartelden

I spent some more time on the collaborative projects part of Chapter Six – especially on the report Généalogie des équipements de normalisation: Les équipements sanitaires which has some very interesting material. I say a bit more about this here. … Continue reading →

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critical-theory.com – eight books that came out in August

Posted on September 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Some interesting looking books here

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Foucault’s Collaborative Projects – a bibliography with notes

Posted on August 28, 2014 by stuartelden

Some of Foucault’s collaborative projects are well-known – the I, Pierre Rivière collection; the Herculine Barbin memoir; Le désordre des familles with Arlette Farge; and the posthumous Technologies of the Self volume from the seminar at the University of Vermont. … Continue reading →

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Généalogie des équipements de normalisation: Les équipements sanitaires – one of Foucault’s collaborative projects

Posted on August 22, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve been looking for a copy of this study for a while – Généalogie des équipements de normalisation: Les équipements sanitaires – and then a couple of copies turned up on-line in good condition and for a reasonable price. I … Continue reading →

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Upcoming talks – Harvard, Groningen, Basel

Posted on August 22, 2014 by stuartelden

I have three visiting lectures coming up over the next couple of months. In mid-September, I’ll be speaking at a conference on ‘Identity, Sovereignty, and Global Politics in the Building of Baghdad: From Revolution through the Gulf War and Beyond‘ at … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault’s collaborative projects, Essential Foucault and Dealing with Darwin

Posted on August 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Apart from David N. Livingstone’s Dealing with Darwin, these are all for the Foucault’s Last Decade project – The Essential Foucault and some books/reports related to his work with CERFI. I’ll say more about these in a subsequent post.

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David N. Livingstone, Dealing with Darwin

Posted on August 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Thanks to dmfant for the link to this – missed it when published earlier this year. David N. Livingstone, Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution, Johns Hopkins University Press. Using place, politics, and rhetoric as … Continue reading →

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Ben Anderson, Encountering Affect now published

Posted on August 4, 2014 by stuartelden

Ben Anderson’s Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions has now been published. Unfortunately it’s an expensive hardback only, but Chapter One is available open access. Since the mid-1990s, affect has become central to the social sciences and humanities. Debates abound over how … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory reviewed in Croatian International Relations Review

Posted on August 1, 2014 by stuartelden

The Birth of Territory has been reviewed in Croatian International Relations Review by Daniel Šaric (open access). Here’s the first paragraph: Stuart Elden’s new book The Birth of Territory is a magisterial and in parts almost encyclopedic work. The book covers … Continue reading →

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