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The Birth of Territory reviewed in Antipode by Phillip Campanile

Posted on April 3, 2014 by stuartelden

There is a critical review of The Birth of Territory by Phillip Campanile in Antipode (pdf). Campanile clearly found the book frustrating in its mode of execution, but also not linked explicitly enough to contemporary debates. As he rightly notes, though, the book sits … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment – online preview of introduction

Posted on April 2, 2014 by stuartelden

The introduction to Lefebvre’s keenly anticipated Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is available to read online at Artforum. I will be interviewing editor Łukasz Stanek for the Society and Space open site in the near future.

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Wahida Khandker, Philosophy, Animality and the Life Sciences – interview

Posted on April 2, 2014 by stuartelden

Wahida Khandker’s book Philosophy, Animality and the Life Sciences is forthcoming in July with Edinburgh University Press. A study of pathological concepts of animal life in Continental philosophy from Bergson to Haraway Using animals for scientific research is a highly contentious issue … Continue reading →

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Stanford Briefs – manuscripts in the humanities wanted

Posted on April 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Stanford University Press have an imprint for shorter texts with a much quicker turnaround from acceptance to publication – Stanford Briefs. The imprint is across all the press’s disciplines, but I’ve been talking to senior editor Emily-Jane Cohen about the lists … Continue reading →

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7 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in March

Posted on April 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Critical-theory.com has another list of recently published books – Roudinesco on Lacan, Despret & Stengers, Negra & Tasker, Critchley, Shults, Zizek and Grant.

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The English language sources of Foucault’s L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi

Posted on March 27, 2014 by stuartelden

Last year a little book of Foucault’s lectures at Dartmouth College in 1980 was published in French – L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi: Conférences prononcées à Dartmouth College, 1980, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini, Paris: Vrin, 2013. [Update: A … Continue reading →

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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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