Category Archives: Books

A few translated excerpts from the discussion following Foucault’s ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’ lectures in Rio

Posted on March 26, 2014 by stuartelden

Between 21-25 May 1973, Foucault gave five lectures in Rio de Janeiro. These were under the collective title of ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’. They were published in Portuguese in 1974 as “A verdade e as formas jurídicas” (easily available online), … Continue reading →

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The remaining Foucault lecture courses – French and English publishing details

Posted on March 26, 2014 by stuartelden

Update 8 July 2014: Subjectivité et vérité and Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling have now been published; Théories et institutions pénales is forthcoming in 2015.   Only two of Foucault’s Collège de France lecture courses remain unpublished in French – Théories et institutions pénales (1971-72) and Subjectivité et vérité (1980-81). As … Continue reading →

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The original source for Foucault’s Pierre Rivière collaborative project

Posted on March 25, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve long known that Foucault and his colleagues discovered the case of Pierre Rivière in Annales d’hygiène publique et de médecine légale, during the seminar of his first year of his work at the Collège de France. This particular case so fascinated … Continue reading →

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Eight Funambulist books available from Punctum

Posted on March 24, 2014 by stuartelden

Eight collections of pieces (of a projected fifteen) originally published at The Funambulist by Léopold Lambert are available as books – pdfs online or print-on-demand – from Punctum.

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David Harvey, Seventeen Contradictions… – introduction available online

Posted on March 24, 2014 by stuartelden

David Harvey’s latest, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism is out in April 2014; the introduction is available online. More information here.

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Books received

Posted on March 19, 2014 by stuartelden

Two of the three volumes of Heidegger’s Schwarze Hefte; an issue of Critique from a couple of years ago that has a review essay of Terror and Territory; and the new issues of TCS and Area.

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Foucault’s La Société punitive – audio recordings of Melbourne lectures

Posted on March 17, 2014 by stuartelden

These are the audio recordings of the two talks I gave on Foucault’s La Société punitive earlier this month – at Monash University and University of Melbourne. The Monash talk has definitely the better recording quality; the Melbourne one was … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Subjectivité et vérité – forthcoming in May 2014

Posted on March 17, 2014 by stuartelden

Seuil now have a page up for Foucault’s 1980-81 lecture course Subjectivité et vérité, with a publication date of May 2014. Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for the link. No great surprises in the publicity text, except perhaps for the explicit link … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory – audio recording of lecture at RMIT

Posted on March 15, 2014 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my lecture on The Birth of Territory in February at RMIT is available here. I gave a version of the same talk at Monash University the day before but didn’t manage to record it. I say … Continue reading →

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Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle – new, annotated translation online and forthcoming in print

Posted on March 15, 2014 by stuartelden

Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle Newly translated and annotated by Ken Knabb Bureau of Public Secrets, 2014 ISBN 978-0-939682-06-5 150 pages. $15.00 The Society of the Spectacle, originally published in Paris in 1967, has been translated into more than … Continue reading →

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