Category Archives: Books

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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Semiotext(e) – Whitney publications

Posted on March 14, 2014 by stuartelden

Semiotexte has produced twenty-eight pamphlets as part of its contribution to the Whitney Biennial by philosophers, writers and critics associated with the press. The series includes new, commissioned works by Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Veronica Gonzalez-Peña, Sergio Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Gary Indiana, John … Continue reading →

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Books received (3 of 4)

Posted on March 11, 2014 by stuartelden

Quentin Meillassoux, Métaphysique et fiction des mondes hors-science Michel Foucault, L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi (French critical edition of 1980 lectures long available in English) Grégoire Chamayou, Les Corps vils. Expérimenter sur les êtres humains aux XVIIIe siècle et XIXe siècle – a reissue of his first … Continue reading →

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Books received (2 of 4)

Posted on March 11, 2014 by stuartelden

Henry Reynolds, The Law of the Land (a gift from Jean Hillier – a good starting point for the issue of indigenous land rights in Australia, read on the plane home) Nikos Papastergiadis, Ambient Perspectives Nikos Papastergiadis, Cornelius Castoriadis – this and the … Continue reading →

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Books received (1 of 4)

Posted on March 11, 2014 by stuartelden

As I’ve been away for eight weeks, there was a small mountain of post waiting me in the office. This is the first of four posts listing what arrived. a new copy of Heidegger’s Basic Writings. My old copy is falling … Continue reading →

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Helen Tartar, Editorial Director, Fordham University Press, 1951-2014

Posted on March 11, 2014 by stuartelden

Several friends have shared stories of working with Helen Tartar, editor with Stanford University Press and Fordham University Press. I never met nor worked with Helen, but it’s clear I’ve read several books she worked on with authors, editors and … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Tenth update

Posted on March 9, 2014 by stuartelden

I’m now about to leave Melbourne. Since the last update on this book, I’ve completed a draft of Chapter Five – which now includes the material from the old Chapter Six – and as a consequence is much too long. … Continue reading →

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Speaking styles and speaking spaces

Posted on March 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Having given four talks over the past two weeks – two on The Birth of Territory and two on the Foucault’s Last Decade project – I thought I’d write a little about the different spaces I spoke in, and how these change … Continue reading →

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